Tag: tatreez

  • The Threads of Resistance and Remembrance

    At an arts workshop last March in Abu Dhabi, 30 women and men sat around a long, wooden table to learn the ancestral practice of Palestinian embroidery, or Tatreez in Arabic.  They were offered common motifs, like flowers and cypress trees, but most gravitated toward a more solemn design, the outline of a gravesite in…