Overseas Palestinian safeguards cultural heritage through artworks
STORY: Overseas Palestinian safeguards cultural heritage through artworks
SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 24, 2023
LENGTH: 0:01:54
LOCATION: Damascus
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the artist working in his house
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): HANI AL-RAKOUI, Palestinian artist
3. various of the artist working in his house
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): HANI AL-RAKOUI, Palestinian artist
5. various of the artist's store
STORYLINE:
Hani al-Rakoui, a Palestinian refugee living in Syria, is on a unique journey to safeguard and promote the Palestinian heritage among the diaspora by creating artworks representing his homeland culture.
Inspired by his father, who started the work back in 2000 in the Yarmouk Camp, the largest camp for Palestinian refugees in the Syrian capital Damascus, the now 36-year-old information technology graduate has taken on the mission to connect Palestinians living abroad with their traditional culture.
At his house in the countryside of Damascus, al-Rakoui has
- Product Code
- ILEA002017750
- Registered date
- 2023/11/24 00:00:00
- Credit
- Xinhua / Kyodo News Images
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- Xinhua News Agency.All Rights Reserved
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