Daily News | A welcoming map: Community organizers launch first Philly map in Arabic
“Are you ready to interact?” Nora Elmarzouky asked a group of about 20 people at the Museum for Art in Wood on Friday afternoon. Between them, a giant, blank map of Philadelphia and its neighborhood borders was spread out on a table.
She looked to her business partner Yaroub Al-Obaidi, who then translated the prompt to Arabic. The room was quickly filled with the voices of people chattering excitedly with each other, their voices bouncing off the walls., were hosting their first workshop for a new project they’re embarking on: a map of Philadelphia in Arabic.The map will have street names and notable locations across the city translated to Arabic.
“Mapping is a way to make understanding of the context by which we live,” Elmarzouky explained. “We experience life in this space, in this city, and this is a way to process that — to think about, ‘What is my connection to this place, even if I’m not ‘from here’?”Arabs have a longstanding history in Philadelphia — and this bilingual newspaper honors it
It’s stories like these that Al-Obaidi and Elmarzouky are trying to prompt from workshop attendees: What reminds you of home? What’s a place in Philadelphia that means a lot to you, and why? They’re ways to hold on to home, while establishing a sense of belonging in their new homes.
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