Once Amman's urban sprawl falls away, replaced by rolling arid fields and olive groves, it is only a short drive to Madaba where the King's Highway begins.
He will also visit Mount Nebo in Madaba, Jordan, where Moses -- an important prophet in the Muslim, Christian and Jewish religions -- is believed to have died and been buried.
It is in this light that a documentary film and photographic exhibition will be made honoring the heritage of the governorates of Damietta in Egypt, Madaba in Jordan and Lebanon Zajal poetry.
The major highlights here are not only the exuberant floral designs that abound on the mosaic floor of the Church of the Virgin (itself built over a Roman temple), but the multiple layers of Madaba's history -- inhabited in some way since the Old Testament Exodus period -- which this tiny section of town reveals.