The book “Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution” reminds the reader of the rich cultural history of the Palestinian people. (Image via Amazon.com) Hussein Ibish, August 9, 2011
What can a book about traditional folkloric costumes tell us about contemporary politics? Quite a lot as it happens.
Hanan Karaman Munayyer’s beautiful new
volume, “Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution” (Interlink, 2011) combines superb photography of the renowned Munayyer collection of traditional Palestinian dress with an analysis of their origins, evolution and variations. Since the 1980s, Munayyer and her husband Farah have been assembling these costumes and other artifacts of Palestinian traditional life in their Palestinian Heritage Foundation.
Between the two of them and their foundation, they are among the most important documentarians and preservationists of this history and heritage, not just in the United States, but in the world. Their collection, which dates from the 1850s to the present, has been exhibited at the Kennedy Center in Washington and in museums and galleries across the globe....
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