On July 11 and 12 between 20:00-24:00, the separation wall between Israel and Palestine will become a two-way screen with eight giant multimedia presentations projected simultaneously on both sides of the separation wall at Abu Dis.

Sixty meters of the separation wall at Abu Dis will turn into a screen on which eight displays of still photographs will be projected simultaneously on both sides of the wall. The 20-minute display of 640 life-size photographs will portray the daily lives of people on opposite sides of the walls in four regions with histories of walls.  In the end, the two sides—P alestinian and Israeli, Jew and Arab, the occupier and the occupied—will be indistinguishable.

Israelis and Palestinians will watch the presentation at the same time on their respective sides of the wall.  Al Quds University will be brining hundreds of Palestinians from near by communities to the area to watch the presentation at Abu Dis.  

The photographers participating in this unique initiative are Sibylle Bergmann (Germany), Christopher Heaney (Ireland), Nicolas Iordanou (Cyprus), Kadir Kaba (Cyprus), Frankie Quinn (Northern Ireland), Michael Reitz (Germany), Steve Sabella (Palestine), and Ruthe Zuntz (Israel).

The exhibition in Israel and Palestine serves as the grand international launch of Challenging Walls.  

Challenging Walls is expected to come to Berlin, Germany in 2008.