Thanks Mike!
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Monday, January 14, 2019
"Doing what they have been doing for thousands of years: #Palestinian woman picking olives in #Palestine circa early 1900's"
From my dear friend Mike Hanini Odetalla
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| Doing what they have been doing for thousands of years: #Palestinian woman picking olives in #Palestine circa early 1900's |
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Rashida Tlaib wears a Palestinian dress to be sworn into Congress and inspires #TweetYourThobe
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| Rashida Tlaib with Mayaar, the daughter of filmmaker Adam Shapiro and human rights attorney Huwaida Arraf. (Photo: Twitter) |
"Writing in Elle today, Tlaib explained why she opted against business attire to pay homage to her mother and her Palestinian heritage with the dress:
“Throughout my career in public service, the residents I have had the privilege of fighting for have embraced who I am, especially my Palestinian roots. This is what I want to bring to the United States Congress, an unapologetic display of the fabric of the people in this country. This is why I decided to wear a thobe when I am sworn into the 116th Congress.My Yama (mother in Arabic) came to the United States at age of 20, and just like any immigrant parent, she wants all of her children to succeed, but without giving up on our roots and culture.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.” " Rashida Tlaib wears a Palestinian dress to be sworn into Congress and inspires #TweetYourThobe
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| "Thank you for inspiring *several* generations @RashidaTlaib. #TweetYourThobe" |
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Huwaida Arraf
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Monday, January 7, 2019
In Growing Gardens for Palestine, inspired by Susan Muaddi Darraj, creator of the marvelous #TweetYourThrobe" pro-heritage campaign
Amman-based artist Nasser Jafari: #TweetYourThobe !
Saturday, January 5, 2019
2019 #TweetYourThobe creator Susan Muaddi Darraj
2019 #TweetYourThobe creator Susan Muaddi Darraj
Author of A Curious Land
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| Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction |
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
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