2019 #TweetYourThobe creator Susan Muaddi Darraj
Author of A Curious Land
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| Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction |
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Tatreez & Tea & Rashida Tlaib & #TweetYourThobe : "Today... she was all of us"
Wafa Ghnaim: "I was interviewed by the New York Times today to discuss the significance in the first Palestinian-American congresswoman @rashidatlaib wearing a traditional Palestinian thobe to her swearing in ceremony today. Palestinian women and their artistry have long been invisible in history and today our maternal ancestors were seen in the halls of Western power. Rashida’s decision to wear her thobe to a significant moment in her life is one Palestinian women naturally think to do for any momentous achievements in career, life and family. Today, Rashida’s thobe stood for all Palestinian women. She was all of us."
Author of
Tatreez & Tea
Friday, January 4, 2019
Codebreaker! From the initiator of the marvelous #TweetYourThobe Twitter/Facebook campaign, Susan Muaddi Darraj:
Susan Muaddi Darraj, "Wondering what all the symbols mean on Palestinian thobes? The 2nd half of Leila ElKhalidi's book has a "dictionary"!..."
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on the significance of wearing a Palestinian thobe:
"As a young girl, I watched my mother hand stitch thobes while sitting
on the floor with a lamp at her side. She would make the small designs
of flowers and different shapes. Just thinking about it brings up so
many memories of my mother and how proud she was of being Palestinian."
NPR: Congresswoman Tlaib Inspires Palestinian-Americans With A Dress And A Hashtag
Institute for Middle East Understanding ( IMEU )
Palestinian traditional costumes infographic map #America #TweetYourThobe #Heritage #Beauty #Palestine #History
"The
women who created these dresses probably did not consider their
embroidered “script” to be anything more than village tradition. How
proud they would be to know that theirs is the language by which
Palestinian and Arab culture is being defined to the public and to our
children.
Each
time one sees the glimmer of pride in a
Palestinian child’s eyes, or
feel the excitement of an American audience upon viewing and discussing
this little-known aspect of art history, we know that we are one step
further on a long and arduous, but immensely rewarding road."
Palestinian Heritage Foundation: Hanan Karaman Munayyer and Farah Joseph Munayyer of West Caldwell, New Jersey, are Palestinian
American scientists, who immigrated to the United States in 1970 from
Haifa and Lydda, Palestine.
http://www.palestineheritage.org
Please click attached link below to read article entitled Embroidery
as a Source of Palestinian Identity By Hanan Karaman
Munayyer
"The world will never be broken, because we will always stitch it back together & make it beautiful." Susan Muaddi Darraj: #tweetyourthobe #rashidatlaib #congress
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| Susan Muaddi Darraj, author of A Curious Land & The Inheritance of Exile |
#TweetYourThobe. "I was raised in a Palestinian-American family that
celebrated the strength of women," Darraj told the Institute of Middle
Eastern Understanding. "Seeing Rashida Tlaib wear her thobe today is a
powerful affirmation of that strength. I started #TweetYourThobe to
celebrate her achievement and educate our fellow Americans about our
culture."