The Leader gets a first-hand look at the artistic passion which brought the city's newest mural, entitled Women Life Freedom, to life. Video by Gareth Gardner and Jonathan Hawes
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00:00And with many of the world's eyes on the Middle East at the moment as a flashpoint for global
00:08conflict, multiple artists working on the mural told me that it's important to find
00:13reasons to come together, perhaps now more so than ever before.
00:16And how does it feel to have this second stage of this mural almost complete?
00:22I feel very excited, I feel very included, I had a great weekend painting with all my
00:29artist friends as well as the local volunteers, it's been absolutely wonderful.
00:34What do the trees on the mural symbolise?
00:37So as you know this is the second stage of the mural, and the trees in the mural, the
00:42Cypress tree, which is from many many cultures, represents strength and everlastingness, and
00:49you know they stand strong for many many years to come.
00:53You've got some interesting calligraphy here behind both of you, would you mind taking
01:02us through, explaining a bit what that means, what it's symbolised?
01:05Yeah, this is a nice poem done by one of our locals, and I can read it in Persian and then
01:13translate it.
01:14So it says,
01:15It means that this is for the people who lost their life fighting for freedom, and their
01:28life wasn't theirs, it wasn't theirs, they become more life, thousands of life, and there
01:38is a translation in English in that one too, so it means that one flower grows a garden
01:46of flowers.