A cooperative Arab-Jewish children's project led to the creation of this peace sculpture, now permanently installed in the Peace Garden at Seattle Center, in the shadow of the Space Needle.  Under the direction of project founder Amineh Ayyad, Palestinian-American, and local Iraqi Artist Sabah Al-Dhaher, Arab and Jewish children came together for many weeks to create this sculpture.  The project was sponsored by The Arab Center of Washington, The Middle East Peace Camp (an Arab & Jewish children's summer camp), Kadima (a progressive Jewish community), and the Iraqi Community Center.

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PARTICIPANTS AND CREDITS

 

The Middle East Peace Sculpture was created by the following children of the Arab Center of Washington, Kadima (a Jewish Progressive Group), the Iraqi Community Center, and the Middle East Peace Camp:   (To learn more about participants and supporters, please click on the underlined names below and visit the PROJECT BACKGROUND page.)

 

Noor Al-Dhaher    Eyas Rashid     Maia Brown     Mona Attallah     Emma Newmark   

Rami Atallah     Hannah Markus     Deena Atieh    Morgan Dillon     Mimi Maritz    

Nadia Farajallah     Omar Farajallah     Sasha Conley     Anisa Mahmoud    

Yazan Kader     Haithem Kader     Eli      Amal Lamb     Callum Lamb    

Sofian Mahmoud     Rachel Linkhart     Yusef Mahmoud   

 

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Sabah Al-Dhaher, Sculptor      

Amineh Ayyad, Project Founder and Director

Aida Adnan, Cynthia Al-Dhaher, Eyas Rashid, Kay Bullitt

Yahya Al-Gharib, Iraqi Community Center/Southwest Youth & Family Services

Maha Gebara, Silvette Boyajian & Raja Attallah, Arab Center of Washington

Organizers and families of the Middle East Peace Camp

Susan Davis, Rabbi Fern Feldman, and Sandy Gurkewitz, Kadima

Andrea Cohen, Compassionate Listening Instructor

Christopher Bodenheimer Knaus, Poet

Mustafa Al-Qatrany, Markos Weiss, Assisting Artists

and my teacher, Haideh Salehi-Esfahani

 

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE SEATTLE CENTER FOR HOSTING AND INSTALLING THE SCULPTURE

 

Virginia Anderson, Director, Seattle Center

Kathleen McLaughlin, Project Manager, Seattle Center

Steve Sneed, Manager, Programs, Seattle Center Productions

Mitsu Sundvall, Programs, Seattle Center Productions

Keiko Nungesser, Landscaping, Seattle Center

Technical Facilities Management (TFM), Seattle Center

Seattle Center Foundation

Barbara Goldstein, Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs

The Space Needle Corporation

Jin Yu and Howard Burton, Seattle Structural

Steve Wiseman, American Marketing

Mary K. McNeill, Children Sing For Peace

David McGrath, Flutist

Video Production: Michael Welty, Semih Tareen, Corey Contreas, Kelly Marrill, & Amineh Ayyad

 

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Last modified: September 08, 2006