Project Princess Europa The Ambassador of Peace and Prosperity Honouring the Phoenicians contribution to Mediterranean's cultural heritage

Table of contents The Vision The Goal Why Princess Europa? Project Description Events Description Sailing Route Charitable deliverables Our Team of Experts Timeline Media and Outcome The Benefits Future Vision Thank You

The Vision

The Vision The Phoenicians miraculously managed to succeed in building an economical empire that prospered and flourished along the Mediterranean and beyond, without shedding a drop of blood. Intuitively, they knew the importance of the commerce route around the Med. Which they have expanded by spreading their universal peaceful lifestyle, culture and an entire civilization. Thousands of years later, Europe in specific and the world in general are gradually following their footsteps. Table of Contents

The Goal Reviving the economical and cultural ties between East and West by rebuilding the bridges which the “universal” Phoenician society has once built through a flourishing trade and exchange of goods in Peace and Prosperity; furthermore they gave the European continent its name and the alphabet. Table of Contents

Why Princess Europa? As the ancient Lebanese Princess “Europa” and the Goddess for ancient Europe, it is unquestionable that she possesses the perfect combination to represent the East and the West for our quest. Press here for more information about Princess Europa Table of Contents

Project description We are building the largest Replica of a Phoenician ship in modern history named “Princess Europa” and will set sails every year, following the footsteps of the Phoenicians along the whole Mediterranean basin in summer 2011 … Press here for ship desciption

On board, 16 students-volunteers, a couple from each of the 8 participating countries; Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Spain and Tunisia; will be impersonating throughout the whole journey a Phoenician character related to their countries. Wearing the ancient traditional clothes which complete through these roles our swimming interactive museum The Woman The Teacher The Priest The Diplomat The Aristocrat

The volunteers will present the Ministers of Culture/Tourism the alphabet engraved on tablets out of rocks. During the planned events at the ports, they will mingle with the locals of each city; debate with them and among themselves their characters and their history. Also they will share up-to-date knowledge and topics about the East and West as well as the Mediterranean nations (cultural, social, historical, economical and ancient religions). One of the 8 Tablets – each uniquely hand-crafted by the famous artist Chahine Raffoul Table of Contents

Education & Heritage (Click here for more info) Economical (Click here for more info) Event-1 Historical Market Event-2 Sharing information Event-1 Museum ship Event-2 Phoenician Characters Event- 3 The Phoenician alphabet Event-4 Creating documented DVDs Mediterranean Business Directory (MBD) Event-1 Spread the Word Tourism (Click here for more info) Project Princess Europa Table of Contents

Sailing Route

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Charitable deliverables The yearly Events are arranged by the city halls based on their cities historical background (the best event will win a monetary prize of $50,000 to be donated to the local orphanage(s) in their city’s behalf including Best Event award by PMO).

Charitable deliverables C.H.A.N.C.E. (Come Help Aid Needy Children Educations) CHANCE will be an educational center facility which will include dorms, sport and recreational areas to needy Children off the streets, to help them arm themselves with Education and Knowledge to face futuristic challenges adequately. Table of Contents

Our Team of Experts Dr. Salim Khalaf Creator of http://phoenicia.org and president of Phoenician International Research Center, Inc. (PIRC) Chapel Hill, NC, USA Dr. Joseph Taouk Historian specialized in Phoenician History and author of over 120 books 32 of which have been translated into several languages Captain Naaman Khoury Marine Engineer (Head of ATCL Yachting club, Kasslic) Georges Barbour Boat builder Built 5 replicas of Phoenician ship. Considered by many to be the best in the business along the Eastern Med. Dominik Wessely German TV Producer Papou Lahoud Costume designer Famous designer, designed the MEA airlines uniforms and the Jordanian Royal Guards, received many designing awards locally and internationally. Professor Clovis Karam NDU (Notre Dame University) History and Theology professor. Phoenician history Engineering Media & costumes Academics Table of Contents

Media and Outcome Several brochures, pamphlets, lobbying campaigns such as campaigns conducted in Zahle Batroun, Byblos, Beirut, Tyre and others Fundraising and awareness campaigns, conferences at the AUB and NDU, 2 Gala Dinner were created and held to introduce Project Princess Europa to Ministers and Ambassadors of the participating countries and the people of the participating countries.   Table of Contents

We have already been reported by local and international media stations such as Thalassa France3 TV 16min documentary with an audience of over 140million spectator which showed commitment in following up reporting the progress of the project outcome and journey. Thalassa France3 TV: documentary LBCI : Nharkoum Saeed Future TV: Aalam el sabah MTV: News report OTV Tele Lumier Sat7 New TV 16 min 20 min 22 min 3.6 min 90 min 60 min 4 min 8 min Media and Outcome Table of Contents

Another Media Campaign, as already mentioned is planned to be launched shortly before the ship completion as a reminder of Project Princess Europa. This Media campaign is assisted by the aforementioned Media Companies plus scores of local, national and international Media Companies in the participating countries/cities.   Additional the whole sailing trip will be produced on the European TV by our German TV Producer. Media and Outcome Table of Contents

The Benefits The participating countries / cities / Companies: Highway of information sharing / knowledge sharing (education) Business connections between Mediterranean companies and beyond. Promotion/ commercial for participating companies to advertise and distribute their products with the ship. Providing touristic opportunities to all participating countries in the project via the distribution of the leaflets and brochures provided by each nation tourism industry. Providing companies along the Med and beyond with opportunities of dealing with each other (MBD) Table of Contents

Future Vision After the first sailing trip Project Princess Europa will become annual, and the ship will be circling from different points along the Mediterranean expanding its members to become the most celebrated annual event in the Mediterranean. Its economical and beneficial success to the participating nations will be inviting for more states member to join in the journey like the Phoenicians did thousands of years ago. The ship will remain as a swimming interactive museum and an informative platform about the latest research results in each journey issues, as well as up-to-date topics of the participating countries. Furthermore it will be used for cultural and educational purposes like holding seminar groups and taking students on field trips. Table of Contents

During the time at sea it is possible to book a cabin and gain the experience to travel like the ancient Phoenicians, or to hold wedding parties on board of Princess Europa. This will be done mostly in winter seasons. The ship will sail to the Arabian Peninsula, because of the storm season in the Mediterranean basin around that period. The income will be used for the ongoing Project Princess Europa itself and to make Peace Missions Organization a self reliant NGO to support on shelf projects like the aforementioned Project C.H.A.N.C.E. Future Vision Table of Contents

Thank You If you wish to be part of this historical event: C+961-3-540-093 E: princess.europa@hotmail.com Face Book Group: Peace Missions Organization IM: peace.missions@hotmail.com Peace Missions Organization Table of Contents

Annexes

Europa was the beautiful daughter of the Phoenician king of Tyre, Agenor. Zeus, the King of the gods according to Greek mythology, saw Europa as she was gathering flowers by the sea and immediately fell in love with her. The Legend Table of Contents

Overwhelmed by love for Europa, Zeus transformed himself into the form of a magnificent white bull and appeared in the sea shore where Europa was playing with her maidens. The great bull walked gently over to where Europa stood and knelt at her feet. The appearance and movements of the bull were so gentle that Europa spread flowers about his neck and dared to climb upon his back overcoming her natural fear of the great animal. But suddenly, the bull rushed over the sea abducting Europa. Only then the bull revealed its true identity and took Europa to the Mediterranean island of Crete. The Legend Table of Contents

There, Zeus cast off the shape of the white bull, and back into his human form, made Europa his lover beneath a simple cypress tree. Europa became the first queen of Crete and had by Zeus three sons: King Minos of Crete, King Rhadamanthus of the Cyclades Islands, and, according to some legends, Prince Sarpedon of Lycia. She later married the king of Crete, who adopted her sons, and she was worshiped under the name of Hellotis in Crete, where the festival Hellotia was held in her honor. Europa, the moon The Legend Table of Contents

At last, Zeus reproduced the shape of the white bull, used by Zeus to seduce Europa, in the stars. Even today we can recognize its shape in the constellation Taurus. The name Europa was given to one of Jupiter's 16 original moons. Europa is special, because it is one of the few moons in our solar system that may have liquid water. Constellation Taurus The Legend Table of Contents

Ship description Princess Europa is the largest replica of a Phoenician ship in modern history: 36m x 11m x 6m Table of Contents

Ship description General layout Table of Contents

Event 2: sharing information Exchanging touristic and cultural background information given by the participating cities to be distributed by the volunteers of that country to the public of the visited cities. Event 1: Historical Market Historical markets with folklore dancing shows will be organized by the city halls and local folklore groups to demonstrate the ancient traditional way of handmade products. Tourism Table of Contents

Education & Heritage Event 1: Museum ship Princess Europa will be built to serve as a moving interactive museum. Two rooms on deck with 2 laptops each full of CD-ROM data rich of information about the history of each nation and altogether. It will also have sculptures, books, charts, clothes and pictures related to the Phoenician era. Table of Contents

Event 2: Phoenician Characters Baal Europa Hannibal Melqart Pygmalion Elissar The 16 volunteers from 8 Mediterranean nations will be impersonating Phoenician characters throughout the journey. Each character will be chosen in correlation with their own national history. They will be filmed while debating visitors and or each other about their character and other important historical information to be used for the DVD documentation of the journey. Education & Heritage Table of Contents

Event 3: The Phoenician alphabet Ministers of culture and tourism are invited to be presented at the ceremonial reception in each port by the volunteers with the Phoenician alphabet engraved on tablets made out of rocks. Education & Heritage Table of Contents

Event 4: Creating documented DVDs of two categories A- Documentation for commercial use e.g. to be sold to TV stations such as National Geographic Channel, History or Thalassa. B- Low cost production aimed at distribution among schools and universities for free which will have a lasting revive of the common history. Education & Heritage Table of Contents

Economical Mediterranean Business Directory (MBD): In the past the Phoenicians connected the Mediterranean by product exchange, nowadays they would have done it by product and data compiling and sharing in a business directory. Inspired by the Phoenician legacy of connecting, we are creating the MBD- Mediterranean Business Directory (a booklet and interactive website specialized to serve and connect Businesses in the Mediterranean and beyond) in fulfillment of their ideas of spreading peace and prosperity through linking companies and spreading their names and products to all the house- holds and companies Table of Contents

Event 1: Spread the word The events at the ports will be also used as a platform by companies, NGO’s and cultural/educational Institutions to spread their words and introduce their products. Economical Table of Contents