Preserving Indigenous Practices through Fashion and Indigenous practices such as embroidery, weaving and pattern making. In this class, fashion entrepreneur and activist from Palestine will explore anthropological and ancient wisdom related to fashion in the region for thousands of years.

Resources:

Books/Literary Texts/Articles

• The Handwoven History of Palestine and Jordan - TIRAZ widad kawar home for arab dress — Google Arts & Culture

• Indigo Plant, Pomegranate, and Saffron Flowers — Palestine-Family.net

• Traditional Palestinian “tatreez”: Sewing with a message - Qantara.de

• http://thirdtext.org/farah-tatreez1

• The Great Book Robbery and the Fate of Palestine’s Private Libraries - Publishing Perspectives

• Stealing Palestine: A study of historical and cultural theft

  Middle East Eye édition française

• Tell Me Again, Who Made The Desert Bloom?

• Lost land: Nakba survivors recall rural struggle in Mandate-era Palestine

  Middle East Eye

• The birth of Palestinian Resistance and the 1936 uprising

  rs21

• Systematic Cultural Appropriation and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• “Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean” by Basem L. Ra’ad

• “Threads of Identity” by Widad KAwak

• “Fashion and Politics” Edited by Djurdja Bartlett

• “Embroidered Palestine: A Stitched Narrative” by Hagar Salamon

• “Fashion and Postcolonial Critique” edited by Monica Titton and Elke Gaugele

Videos/Podcasts

• The Great Book Robbery - A Film by Benny Brunner on Vimeo