Bringing back the “Spirit of Mosul”… an inspiring story of the heart of an Iraqi city on Sky News Arabia

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Today, Wednesday, Sky News Arabia will broadcast a special documentary on the Iraqi city of Mosul, one of the most affected cities since World War II, and restoring the spirit of the city through the reconstruction of its famous historic mosque, the Great Mosque of Al-Nuri. .
The program, presented by the media, Faisal bin Hariz, presents the extent of the destruction suffered by Mosul after three years of a war that displaced more than one million people, equivalent to half the city’s population, and moves to review the importance of the “Revive the Spirit of Mosul” project launched by the United Nations The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), with the support of the United Arab Emirates in 2019, to rebuild the city’s landmarks, specifically the Al-Nouri Mosque, with the aim of restoring the spirit of multicultural life in it.
The documentary approaches the details of collecting more than 45 thousand pieces from among the rubble from the original parts of the mosque, which will be part of the features of the mosque again when the process of rebuilding it within this humanitarian project is completed.
The documentary also hosts personalities who contribute to restoring this cultural and civilizational heritage; Like Professor Ali Gemayel, Professor of Architecture and Heritage, and Eng. Omar Taqa, UNESCO representative in the project. In addition to the winning team members in the Al-Nouri Mosque design competition. The team reviews the plans for the final design of the project, which was called “The Hallway Dialogue”, whose main idea was based on the principle of tolerance after Mosul was exposed to severe events. The plans also depend on openness to the other, and a return to life in peace and coexistence. The documentary also reviews the opinion of a number of guests who eagerly recount what this humanitarian project means to them and the people of Mosul, which they considered a dream that they thought was impossible after the mosque was turned into rubble. With the completion of the first phase of the project, the project draws, according to the guests, this hope in the city Exhausted by war and sectarian conflicts. Can the story of building a place and restoring its spirit revive hope in the faces of the people of a city of history?
It is noteworthy that the filming of the episode took place in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Alexandria, Egypt. Viewers can follow the broadcast of the episode exclusively on Sky News Arabia on Wednesday, July 28, at 4:30 pm GMT, and 8:30 pm Abu Dhabi time.
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