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Saturday, May 28, 2011

New Palestinian stamp on International Passports

Wafa- Palestinian artist, Khalid Jrar, launched a new campaign in which he invented a new stamp for the new sovereign state of Palestine and stamped foreigners’ passports with it to spread it all over the world.

Jrar stamped American, British, Danish, German and French passports with the new stamp which was designed and written in both Arabic and English.

He didn’t wait for the declaration of the Palestinian state next September, but started looking for foreigners at Qalandia’s checkpoint to Ramallah’s bus station to stamp their passports.

After greeting them, he would explain his idea and stamp their passports with the new stamp next to other countries.

Jrar created a new page on ‘Facebook’ in which he presented his idea and looked for volunteers and supporters who would love to help him in spreading the new stamp. Read more
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