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DESCRIPTION:The thobe\, a traditional hand embroidered dress made and worn 
 by Palestinian women for centuries\, is the bedrock of Palestinian identit
 y through heritage\, culture\, and land. For millennia\, women in the east
 ern Mediterranean have showcased their skillful stitchery on their traditi
 onal dress\, displaying unique motifs\, colors\, and styles across the var
 ious villages of old Palestine. After 1948\, over 750\,000 Palestinians we
 re forced into exile\, carrying their dressmaking and embroidery tradition
 s with them into refugee camps around the world. As the diaspora spread ac
 ross the globe\, the largest and longest-standing population of displaced 
 people in the world\, the thobe evolved into a symbol of national and cult
 ural identity beyond borders. Palestinian dress historian and educator Waf
 a Ghnaim will discuss the evolution of the thobe and the language of Pales
 tinian embroidery as it was used on traditional dress throughout time.Wafa
  Ghnaim is a dress historian\, researcher\, author\, archivist\, curator\,
  educator\, and embroideress who learned from her mother\, award-winning a
 rtist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim. Ghnaim specializes in Palestinian\, Syrian\, J
 ordanian\, and Lebanese dress history and identification\, with a focus on
  traditional embroidery techniques\, historic reconstruction\, and oral hi
 story.Ghnaim’s first book\, Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in 
 the Palestinian Diaspora(first edition 2016\; second edition 2018)\, docum
 ents the traditional patterns and stories passed on to her by her mother. 
 She has released a number of publications since\, including THOBNA (2023)\
 , Tatreez Companion (2024)\, Tatreez Beauty: A Coloring Book (2024)\, and 
 has published her research with the Art Institute of Chicago\, the Metropo
 litan Museum of Art\, the Institute for Palestine Studies\, and more. Ghna
 im continues her mother’s educational legacy through the Tatreez Institute
 \, a global arts education initiative she began in 2016 teaching Palestini
 an\, Syrian\, and Jordanian embroidery techniques and lecturing at leading
  institutions\, museums and universities around the world. The Tatreez Ins
 titute stewards a collection of over 180 dresses and headdresses from Pale
 stine\, Jordan\, Syria\, and Lebanon that were rematriated from households
  and shops across North America for the purpose of preservation\, educatio
 n\, publication and research of intangible cultural heritage in the diaspo
 ra.Ghnaim was the first-ever Palestinian and Syrian embroidery instructor 
 for the Smithsonian Museum (2017–21) and earned a prestigious senior resea
 rch fellowship position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2023–24). Ghnai
 m has been featured in major media outlets throughout the duration of her 
 career\, including Vogue magazine\, which named her and her mother “the wo
 rld’s leading guardians of tatreez.”Ghnaim is currently serving as the cur
 ator for the Museum of the Palestinian People.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Timeless Thobe
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