"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
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