MEMO in conversation with Wafa Ghnaim

14 October 2020

Watch our conversation with Palestinian-American businesswoman, artist and writer Wafa Ghnaim about traditional Palestinian embroidery, a centuries-old art form passed down from mother to daughter, and her book 'Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora'.

Tatreez & Tea has launched into a global initiative - the first and only of its kind - offering online and live classes around the world in service of promoting the practice of Palestinian embroidery by anyone, anywhere and at any time.

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards

  • Elastic empire: refashioning war through aid in palestine
  • The revolution of 1936–1939 in palestine
  • Against erasure: a photographic memory of palestine before the nakba
  • Out of gaza: new palestinian poetry
  • Knights of cinema: the story of the palestine film unit
  • Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale
  • They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
  • I Sing From the Window of Exile
  • Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity
  • Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948
  • Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir
  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
  • Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
  • Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes : Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body
  • Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine
  • Power born of dreams: my story is palestine
  • Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization
  • Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
  • Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said
  • Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics