A Photo Exhibition on Bethlehem’s Cultural Heritage

Brother Neil Kieffe together with the Minister of Tourism and the Mayor of Bethlehem opened on Thursday 8 December a Photographic Exhibition Organized by the Students of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (HOTM409). The students worked together in Spring 2006 to assemble these pictures of the historic centers in Bethlehem, Beit Sahour and Beit Jala, to recover their charm, document their architectural pattern, and save the Palestinian cultural heritage. The exhibit which was presented in a virtual Gallery also offers a compendium of 70 images of today’s Bethlehem is intended to raise the awareness of the public and was part of the students work in the course on Cultural Heritage and Tourism.

The photos were prepared in the Shamieh Lab, and the exhibit was organized by Prof.  Qustandi Shomali, Bethlehem University, Laura Korhonen and Seija Rytkonen- Diaconia University of Applied Sciences in Turku, Finland and was supported by the Centre for Cultural Heritage Preservation and Ma’an Network.