Giant Aerial Human Banner Sends Message From Mount Sinai for Peace and Unity on Anniversary of WWI Armistice

(Mount Sinai, Egypt, Nov 9, 2018) Nearly 200 people, representing eight different spiritual faiths from 15 countries across the globe marked the 100-year anniversary of the armistice that ended World War One by joining forces atop Mount Sinai to create a large-scale human aerial message to the world.

The group included 100 Bedouins, representing the eight tribes of the Sinai Trail, and participants from major religious faiths of the region including Muslims, Christians, and Jews. They were joined by Sufi Sheika Amina and Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining) from the Dineh Nation in New Mexico along with other spiritual leaders.

In a nod to the digital generation participants used their bodies to form the word ME with the Pause symbol then changed to the word WE with the Play symbol. The message was to remind us that ‘WE are all one big human family’ and that shifting our perspective from ME to WE is a necessary step towards a peaceful future. The Play symbol was then transformed into the Arabic word Haya, which means life, and surrounded the WE. The overall theme was ‘STOP FIGHTING AND LIVE TOGETHER’. (Photos and Video are available at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12UkUT-2Rg2-1vviafoMIshsxwW4z_lJK)

The event included a sunrise interfaith prayer, a unification ceremony for the Bedouin of the Sinai Trail, and music from a variety of Middle Eastern traditions.

This fulfilled a long held dream of Bedouin leader Musallem to unite the eight tribes of the Sinai Trail on top of the mountain. He said: ”We are very very happy to send a good message to the world to say that we are one big family…we are very happy to support something that helps the world go a different direction…to a good direction of peace, to love each other, to enjoy our partners, our time in this life. I think we are all the same but different colors. We drink the same water, we use the same oxygen, we are partners. This I think is worth to send— that we are all partners in this world, brothers and sisters.”

Participant Sheika Amina Ial JerrahiNur Aski Jerrahi said:

“When I was invited to this event, I was truly elated because Mount Sinai has such a profound meaning for practitioners of Sufism…just to come together and proclaim oneness and togetherness as the principle that should lead us into the next cycle of humanity is simply a necessity…because if we don’t do that we will perish. It’s not a luxury, it’s a necessity, it’s a need— that we come together as people of different cultures and different backgrounds and different mentalities and consider us as one.“

Participant Pat McCabe who traveled from New Mexico said:

“We are gathered on behalf of peace in a place that has had a lot of difficulty finding peace and yet this is such holy ground, here at Mount Sinai. The whole world has that name and that place in their consciousness. We’re here to bring human beings together with our actual bodies along with our hearts, minds, and our spirits. Its really powerful I think, to have human bodies coming together to make this design and send out this message to the world but also to this mountain. We’re acknowledging this sacred place and anchoring this message in a prayerful way, sending our intention deep into the heart of this beautiful earth…which is really the center of every nation, every mountain for all of us from all around the world.”

An Israeli Participant noted:

“We’re in Mount Sinai and this place is actually the heart of the mountain…In the state of the world and how it is right now and the violence and the perpetual war and competition where every person’s success is threatening our own success…we are constantly in a scarcity mode…the message is basically that as WE we have a chance to survive in this moment and maybe you know save a few species on the way and keep this place beautiful and maybe start drinking the river’s waters again. That would be a good vision.”

Mount Sinai in Egypt, the place where Moses purportedly received the 10 Commandments, is a holy site with profound significance to many traditions including Muslims, Christians, and Jews. The Sinai region has been a hotbed of terrorism in recent years, racked with violence.

The Bedouin tribes, once fierce rivals, have established a cooperative relationship in the last few decades. The Negev Bedouin were briefly combatants in WW1 but later withdrew from the conflict.

This artistic action also coincides with several important anniversaries (Nov 9th), including the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht in 1938, often considered the beginning of the Holocaust, the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, and the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

The event was supported by Tamera Healing Biotope, the Grace Foundation, and Unify.org.