Tatreez with Wafa Ghnaim

Program Type:

Arab American Interest, Arts & DIY, History & Genealogy, Special Events

Audience:

Adults

Event Details

Join Wafa Ghnaim—a Palestinian dress historian—to learn about traditional Palestinian embroidery: Tatreez, and Palestinian arts and culture. 

Wafa Ghnaim is a Palestinian dress historian, researcher, author, archivist, curator, educator and embroideress. Her first book, "Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora" (2018), documents the traditional patterns and stories passed on to her by her mother

Photo Credit: Carlos Khalil Guzman, 2020

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