'The Tree of Hope' - Sculptor Mark Coreth is commissioned to make a bronze for the centre of Jerusalem’s Old City. The mission is to create something which symbolises the city and the pilgrims who come through it. He turns his mind to the influence of nature through the journey of swifts who nest in the city walls, and an olive tree outside of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
Two elderly artists, Widad Kawar and Abdulhay Mossallam, who have memories of the Palestinian Nakba and have used their creativity to preserve their culture in different ways.
Three young Palestinian refugee women commit to their communities and reach levels of further study they’d never dreamed of - supported by the Shawna Christianson Clarke Foundation.
Two courageous Syrian young women now living on the Turkey/Syria border: Rayan, a young girl who lost her legs and Fatima, a young mother who’s making prosthetic limbs.
