My friend Zazuka helped me make a poster design out of the tatreez tribute I made for my grandmother. This friday she'll host a poetry workshop with the lovely @danimo_musings in collaboration with the @grieving_doves . All dontaions for the workshop will go to friends and family in Gaza and the poster sales specifically will support my family in Gaza. Hope to see you there! For information about the workshop location feel free to reach out privatly ❤️

This is a project I made in 2025 but it really started in 2024, when I was given an old photograph of my grandmother. In the picture she's wearing a thobe she made and I really wanted to make a piece featuring the pattern in her honor. However the design was nowhere to be found, not in books nor digital pattern archives. With the help of my friend @safa_creates and the lovely and knowledgable @folkglory.design I was luckily able to reconstruct the pattern, even though the photograph is quiet tiny and blurry. The meaning of the pattern remains a mystery to me to this day. But stitching it made me feel connected to my grandmother, a women I've never met. I stitched her portrait on the back of the jacket, carrying her with me everywhere I go. Her hands are on my shoulders, offering comfort and guidance and representing the generations of hands of palestinian women, who have kept stitching in the face of cultural erasure. The key obviously stands for the intention to return home one day. I hope to wear this jacket in a free Palestine in the future and if I do, I hope my grandmother can see it with me through this jacket. The colors were inspired by the Beersheba tradition of widows stitching blue embroidery onto their thobes to show their mourning. The pink and green parts are meant to symbolize hope, as women, who wanted to remarry/remarried would add pink/colorful details to embrace new love coming into their lives while not forgetting the ones they've mourned. The carrying of grief and the persistance of moving forward are both universally tied to our experience as Palestinians, so it felt fitting. Special thanks also to my friend Zeina, who took these beautiful photographs of my jacket. #tatreez

🖼️ Thread's of Liberation this Saturday will be featuring 5 outstanding artists who will put their art on display at @refugeworldwide.space 😍 @safa_creates @jomana_haithem @waterandseeds.threadsofhope @shoxnerdbox @artsysumi ✨💕 These artists initially bonded through the regular practice of Palestinian tatreez. But their friendship has grown over the past two years through activism, community organizing, and moral support. Many of them are exhibiting their works publicly for the first time. Special shout out to @safa_creates for helping the team coordinate the art exhibition and the effort to support her fellow artist & comrades 🙏 ❤️ 🗓️ Saturday, November 15th ⏱️ 14:00 - 22:00 📍 Niemetzstrasse 1, 12055 ✨ Donation based entry

UPDATE: we have reached the maximum number of participants. Thank you for your interest! English/Arabic — Call for Textile Contributions / دعوة لتقديم مساهمات في مجال النسيج 🌵 🌻 apply in the link in the bio ASAP

Please join us for a tatreez workshop with @collectivesabr (RSVP pls).They will teach Palestinian embroidery and talk about the cultural and historic significance of this sacred art form, which has been used as documentation of Palestinian life and resistance for generations. Tatreez is a visual language, it tells stories through its motifs, making each thobe (the traditional Palestinian dress) a poem, inscribing stories of life and resistance on the wearers body. Join us in making and celebrating tatreez together. All funds will go to benefit families in Gaza.

Fundraiser alert! 📢 Join us at @music4palestineberlin for a beginner's tatreez workshop on Sunday 27th July at @bum.berlin 🫒 Come by, chill with us, and check out the full program. 🇵🇸 Supplies kindly donated by @feryal.abbasi.ghnaim Thank you 😊

📢 Beginner workshop: Aida fabric patch with Gaza tree motif Stitch a Palestinian embroidery motif from Gaza onto a patch, and raise funds and awareness for our family and friends in Gaza in the process! Here, you will learn about the Gaza tree motif, about the greater art of tatreez, and more broadly about Palestinian solidarity. We will discuss cultural appreciation versus appropriation, and ways to show up for Palestinians everyday. Participants will leave more informed allies and will have contributed to specific families in Gaza seeking support. 🪡 Date/time: Thursday 10th July, 18-21:00 CET 🧵Location: Berlin's Neukoelln district (specific address given upon successful registration) ❤️ Cost: 40 EUR (100% of proceeds go to Gaza family) Registration link: https://shorturl.at/BSDdd also found in our bio

Also, here is Hebas GoFundMe if you have the means to help: /f/help-my-friend-heba-in-rafah-feed-her-children?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer And a German translation of my post: Meine Cousine Heba und ihre sechs Kinder Abdullah, Ashraf, Youssef, Aline, Hadaya und Aya wollen Gaza verlassen, können es jedoch nicht. Sie sind hungrig, müde und schwerst traumatisiert. Es ist so schlimm, dass Heba mir keine Bilder ihrer Kinder sendet, die vor Beginn des Gen*zids entstanden sind. Sie sagt: "Diese Fotos sind aus der Zeit vor dem Krieg, aber jetzt haben sich ihre Gesichter durch den Krieg, das Leben in Zelten und den ständigen Hunger verändert. Ich schicke dir diese schönen Fotos, sodass du sie immer so in Erinnerung behältst" ich kann nicht akzeptieren, dass Heba und ihre Kinder nicht gehen können, obwohl sie das für sich selbst wollen. Wir müssen darauf aufmerksam machen, die Welt muss aufwachen! Heba will Sicherheit, Unterkunft, Essen und ruhen können, ohne die ständige Angst vor Bomben. Also Menschenrechte! Es bricht mein Herz, dass ich ihr selten wirklich helfen kann, dass ich in erster Linie den langsamen Tod meiner Familie und meines Volkes beobachte... Tag ein, Tag aus. Befreiungskämpfe werden durch Solidarität gewonnen, ich bitte euch mir mit euren Stimmen zu helfen! I bitte euch Hebas Geschichte zu verbreiten! #freepalestine #openrafahbordernow

Hey, I'm part of tomorrows event at @spore.initiative in remembrence of Nakba day. I was kindly invited to teach tatreez by mossallam_a and @ingridthehora . In the first part of this workshop an intergenerational group of women and children captured the story of how a community of women, children, dragon trees, the wind and clouds, worked together to capture water for a thirsty Island. We inscribed the story in fabric, water and dye. In this next workshop, we will come together to harvest our stories of solidarity, as communities of Berlin, of people and of nature. Guided by themes core to our relationship with water, ‘spirits and guardians’, ‘harvesting’, and ‘solidarity’, we will bring in our own stories over the last two tumultuous years, and stitch and weave them together into the fabric of our cloud-catcher. For the first workshop and to commemorate Nakba day, Salma Derbi, will lead a Palestinian tatreez workshop where she will share motifs from Gaza, while talking about tatreez as a communal tradition. The event is open to spontaneous participants but would be great if you can register beforehand to plan better. Please write an email to: [email protected] und [email protected] We'd happy to see you at Spore tomorrow! #tatreez #nakbaday2025 #sporeinitiative #freeplaestine

#freepalestine🇵🇸 #freegaza #alleyesonrafah🇵🇸

This I'm posting because I also offer Satin instead of velvet and diffrent customizing options like adding pearls, on the band or as pendants. #tatreez #warda #freepalestine🇵🇸

And last but not least is the Gazan design "Maya w Bizr", the pattern I named my page after, meaning water and seeds. To me it represents hope and revolution and our ties to the land! We will keep planting seeds of hope and change and we will water them with our voices and actions until Palestine is free, until all oppressed people are free, in Sudan and Congo and all around the world. #tatreez #mayawbizr #gaza #waterandseeds #freepalestine🇵🇸