Gorgeous calligraphy canvas print by Nawaf Soliman, as part of the Cities in the Heart exhibit.

Numbered giclée on wood-stretched canvas

Where Mount Carmel and the Mediterranean Sea meet, the Canaanites built a small village whose name continued to change until its name in all languages became "Haifa." Its rule succeeded the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, and Seleucids. The Gospels mention that Christ chose to pass along its coast on his way to Nazareth to avoid the Romans. Haifa was settled under Islamic rule and Zahir Al-Omar built a modern city over the village. The late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote about Haifa:

I love the seas that I would love

I love the fields that I would love

But a drop of water in the beak of a lark

in Haifa stone is equivalent to all seas

This painting consists of the name "Haifa" written in Thuluthy script and repeated eight times relative to its eight neighborhoods. The letters are brightly colored, and Darwish's poem about Haifa is written in Diwani script.