Minister of Culture, Haifaa Al-Najjar, opened Wednesday evening a photo exhibition on life in Jordan in 1905.
The exhibition, held at the Royal Automobile Museum in Amman, entitled: “Jalabert Exhibition.. A Trip Across Transjordan in 1905”.
This exhibition presents a selection of forty-three rare photographs of Jordan, dating to 1905, showing archaeological sites and scenes of village life.
Kept at the Oriental Library of Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, they were brought back by the Jesuit Father Louis Jalabert (1877-1943) after a visit to Jordan in 1905.
The voyage was part of his project of publishing the corpus of Greek and Latin inscriptions of Syria that he had just conceived.
The exhibition was held in celebration of the heritage initiative supported by the European Union and organized by the French Cultural Institute and the French Institute of the Near East in Amman.
France’s Ambassador, Alexis Le Cour Grandmaison, and EU Ambassador, Maria Hadjitheodosiou, attended the exhibition.
The Exhibition will be open to the public from the 24th of May until the 3rd of June from 10 AM to 7 PM, everyday except Tuesdays.
Source: Jordan News Agency