São Paulo – The photo exhibition “A Long Journey”, about Palestinian refugees, will open in Brasília next Thursday (7th). The exhibition already visited other cities in the world and will be inaugurated in the capital federal by the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa), Pierre Krähenbühl, who will be making his first visit to Brazil. The Switzerland native took up the post in April.
The exhibition features 40 pictures and five short-films to portray the history of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. Historical images and footage from Unrwa’s archives will be presented. The exhibition also shows the works of Unrwa in the five places where it operates: Gaza, West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
According to the materials released by the United Nations (UN), in the exhibition, the audience will witness of one of the longest cases of forced migration in modern history, of violation of human rights and of challenges faced by the refugees in Palestine.
The exhibition already visited Rome, Jerusalem, New York and Morocco. In Latin America, it opened only in the city of São Paulo, where it stayed between January and mid-March. The Brazilian version of the show was produced by the local architecture and design office Atelier Marko Brajovic.
Unrwa’s commissioner-general will be in Brasília on May 6th and 7th, when he will attend a series of meetings and official activities, besides inaugurating the exhibition. On May 8th, he will end his visit in the country, in São Paulo.
The exhibition “A Long Journey” is a partnership between Unrwa and the United Nations Information Centre for Brazil (UNIC Rio) and has the support of several agencies and institutions, among them the Ministry of External Relations, the League of Arab States and the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
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Exhibition “A Long Journey”
Opening date and hours: May 7th to June 28th, 2015 / Tuesday to Sunday, from 9 AM to 6:30 PM
Free Admission
Museu Nacional do Conjunto Cultural da República
Setor Sul – Lote 02 – Esplanada dos Ministérios | Brasília -DF
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
