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Widad Kawar, owner of one of the largest collections of Palestinian dresses in the world, and founder of the Tiraz Center

WIDAD KAWAR: THE MOTHER OF PALESTINIAN EMBROIDERY

Stephanie Saldaña

November 27, 2016

HeritageTextiles

What if one of the most important libraries in the Middle East is not a library at all, but a collection of dresses stored in the house of a single woman? What if it is not books, but wedding dresses and century- old robes, sewn in a dizzying array of…[…]

Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Seed Library:

Stephanie Saldaña

February 25, 2017

Profiles

For many Palestinians, when they think about their heritage, they think about their ancient agricultural land. Vivien Sansour, who grew up in Beit Jala, only knew how collected she was to her historical agriculture when she went abroad to study in America. She began to miss the fruits and vegetables…[…]

Widad Kawar, Collector of Palestinian Dresses

Stephanie Saldaña

February 25, 2017

Profiles

Raised in Bethlehem, a famous center of Palestinian embroidery, Widad Kawar grew up seeing women from the villages around Jerusalem come to Bethlehem to buy materials from embroidering on market day. They wore incredible dresses, richly embroidered to mark their villages of origin. But after the 1948 war, when hundreds of…[…]

Azizah Qumsieh, Palestinian embroiderer of the Thob al-malak

Stephanie Saldaña

February 25, 2017

Profiles

Born in 1927, Azizah began to learn to embroider when she was seven years old, in the 1930’s, when Bethlehem was famous as the center of Palestinian embroidery. The city was known for producing the embroidery for the famous malak dress, a wedding dress often worn by women of Jerusalem…[…]

Salah Abu-Ali, guardian of the al-Walajeh tree, Palestine

Stephanie Saldaña

February 25, 2017

Profiles

In the village of al-Walajeh stands the oldest tree in Palestine, the al-Bedawi tree. Tradition holds that the olive tree is thousands of years old, and received its name because the great Sufi sheikh Ahmad al-Bedawi rested under its branches. And while heritage such as trees is often overlooked by…[…]

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