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225: 1,001 Signs
Stories of Our City
English - February 01, 2023 13:20 - 2 minutes - 206 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Arts documentary city culture humaninterest journalism stories travel truestory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When Gazi Khattab began practicing Arabic calligraphy as a child, he would go downtown to study the plethora of shop signage and advertisements on display for guidance and inspiration. This exposure to the environmental street décor of Jordan’s capital city eventually led him to begin collecting and preserving old signs—some of which are now on display in his Old Signs of Amman Museum in the heart of the city.