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Dar El-Nimer for Arts & Culture
The adage, tell me what you wear and I tell you who you are, takes on a different meaning when it comes to traditional Palestinian robes, known as “thobe”.
The ancient craft of Palestinian embroidery has been passed on over generations and has even survived the ruptures of the Nakba, strife, occupation and displacement. One of its key characteristics have always been regional particularities. Dresses made in Ramallah, for example, would be stitched on white fabric. In Gaza it would be black. The threads were of specific hues too. As were the motifs, of course. It hence became like a physical alphabet, like Braille text that one can decipher.
Over the last six decades, this art of embroidery, known as “tatreez”, also came to reflect political realities, notably during the intifada.
It is then not surprising that the opening exhibition of Dar el Nimer for Arts & Culture, does so with At the Seams, a splendid exhibition curated by Rachel Dedman, on the art of Palestinian embroidery.
“The research has unfolded from the understanding that textiles sensitively reflect the changes in the social and political landscape in which they are produced. Taking material that is little documented and rarely exhibited,
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A. M. Qattan Foundation was founded in 1993 and is registered as a charity in the UK, with a branch registered as a non-pro t organization in Palestine in 1998. With a particular focus on children, teachers and young cultural practitioners, it works towards the development of culture and education in Palestine and the Arab world through its threemain programmes: the Centrefor Educational Research and Development, the Culture and Arts Programme, and the AMQF Child Centre in Gaza. In 2008, a cultural centre was opened in London, The Mosaic Rooms, to promote contemporary culture from the Arab world. The Foundation aims to empower freethinking, enlightened individuals to overcome the challenges of war and injustice and to create a nourishing and dynamic society in Palestine and the Arab world. It adopts a long- term, participatory developmental ethos through fostering critical thinking, research, creativity and the production of knowledge. It strives to provide an inspiring model of transparency and excellence, in addition to advocating cultural and educational development as an essential tool of resistance for a society facing acute political instability and humanitarian catastrophe.
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INDEX OF BIOGRAPHIES BY PROFESSION
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