Blue Desert
Blue Desert | |
|---|---|
South Sinai,  Egypt | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 14 kilometres (8.7 mi)2 |
| Dimensions | |
| • Length | 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) |
| Creator | Jean Verame |
| created in | 1980 |
The Blue Desert (also known as the Sinai Peace Junction) is an area of the
This piece of art was created in 1980 when, following the signing of the 1979
Belgian artist Jean Verame visited Sinai to paint a line of peace. Verame gained the permission of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and received a grant of ten tons of paint from the United Nations.[3][4]
History
After the official signing of the
Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
in Washington DC on 26 March 1979, Belgian artist Jean Verame wanted to celebrate this historical peace in his own way.
Verame first came to Sinai in 1978. Inspired by the hit song "
Anwar El-Sadat himself, and 10 tonnes of paint provided by the UN, Jean started painting the desert blue. One year later, the "Line of Peace", or the "Sinai Peace Junction" as it is also sometimes called, extended almost 6.5km with boulders rising up to nine meters in height, all painted blue.[5][6]
Location
The Blue Desert stretches between Dahab and St Catherine, known as the Plateau of Hallaoui.[5]
Other places
Four years after Sinai's Line of Peace, Verame completed another blue painting. This time, it was in
Gallery
References
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- ^ "Sinai - Blue Desert". www.geographia.com. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ "Jean Vérame's Les Roches Bleues". GRAPHITE. 2011-07-06. Archived from the original on 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ "Blue Desert". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ a b c "Al-Ahram Weekly | Travel | Snap shots". 2008-10-14. Archived from the original on 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ "فعل الطبيعة أم الإنسان..ما حقيقة "الصحراء الزرقاء" بسيناء مصر؟". CNN Arabic (in Arabic). 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ الاتحاد, صحيفة (2020-09-12). ""تافراوت" المغربية.. من قرية صغيرة إلى مزار عالمي". صحيفة الاتحاد (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-12-21.
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