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A hand-embroidered Palestinian dress hanging outdoors, its chest panel patterned in cross-stitch tatreez

Why Subtle Designs Carry Louder: The Case for H...

A hand-embroidered Palestinian dress. Photo: Aseel zm, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. TL;DR: A dress that speaks through its stitching outlasts a shirt that speaks through a slogan. This is...

Why Subtle Designs Carry Louder: The Case for H...

A hand-embroidered Palestinian dress. Photo: Aseel zm, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. TL;DR: A dress that speaks through its stitching outlasts a shirt that speaks through a slogan. This is...

A hand-embroidered Palestinian dress hanging outdoors, its cross-stitch chest panel in red, white and green thread

Founder Note: Why Jad Sahyoun Started FALASTIN,...

A hand-embroidered Palestinian dress. Credit: Aseel zm, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Jad Sahyoun started FALASTIN in Montreal after months of looking for something specific and simple: clothing he could...

Founder Note: Why Jad Sahyoun Started FALASTIN,...

A hand-embroidered Palestinian dress. Credit: Aseel zm, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Jad Sahyoun started FALASTIN in Montreal after months of looking for something specific and simple: clothing he could...

A Palestinian thobe's embroidered qabbeh chest panel in pink, white and olive cross-stitch, hanging beneath grapevine leaves

The Qabbeh: How One Embroidered Chest Panel Car...

Photo: A Palestinian thobe with a hand cross-stitched qabbeh chest panel. Aseel zm, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. A Palestinian thobe is read from the chest first. The square...

The Qabbeh: How One Embroidered Chest Panel Car...

Photo: A Palestinian thobe with a hand cross-stitched qabbeh chest panel. Aseel zm, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. A Palestinian thobe is read from the chest first. The square...

A black Palestinian thobe with a cross-stitched floral chest panel, hanging beneath grapevine leaves

Thobe vs Kaftan: What to Wear and the Differenc...

Photo: A Palestinian thobe with hand cross-stitched chest panel. Aseel zm, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Thobe vs kaftan is the question a lot of diaspora shoppers do not...

Thobe vs Kaftan: What to Wear and the Differenc...

Photo: A Palestinian thobe with hand cross-stitched chest panel. Aseel zm, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Thobe vs kaftan is the question a lot of diaspora shoppers do not...

Two Palestinian men photographed at Dhahiriya near Hebron in 1940, the younger in a white hatta held by a black agal over a striped qumbaz with a leather belt, the elder in a wound laffeh turban

Palestinian Men's Clothing: The Qumbaz, the Lef...

A 1921 inventory of a fully dressed Palestinian villager ran to seven garments before it reached his head. The qumbaz, the sirwal, the abayeh, the four layers of the leffeh,...

Palestinian Men's Clothing: The Qumbaz, the Lef...

A 1921 inventory of a fully dressed Palestinian villager ran to seven garments before it reached his head. The qumbaz, the sirwal, the abayeh, the four layers of the leffeh,...

Olive groves on the hills around Nablus in the northern West Bank, rows of low silver-leaved trees spread across dry terraced ground

The Olive Harvest in Palestine: Mawsim al-Zayto...

In the autumn of 2019 the groves of Palestine gave up 177,000 tonnes of olives in about eight weeks. Mawsim al-zaytoun, the two picking dates that decide jar or press,...

The Olive Harvest in Palestine: Mawsim al-Zayto...

In the autumn of 2019 the groves of Palestine gave up 177,000 tonnes of olives in about eight weeks. Mawsim al-zaytoun, the two picking dates that decide jar or press,...