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SUMMARY:Book Launch: "THOBNA" by Wafa Ghnaim
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nWashington\, DC\nBook Launch: "THOBNA" by Wafa Ghnaim\n
 \nJuly 8\, 2023\n\n6:30 - 7:30 p.m.\n\nMuseum of the Palestinian People\n\
 n1900 18th St. NW\, Washington D.C.\n\nWafa Ghnaim\, Curator at the Museum
  of the Palestinian People\, will release her second publication titled "T
 HOBNA: Reclaiming Palestinian Dresses in the Diaspora" on July 8\, 2023. W
 e are delighted to announce that the Museum will be hosting her first book
  launch event on Saturday\, July 8 with a moderated discussion hosted by t
 he museum's Director of Programs &amp\; Operations\, Julia Pitner. A limit
 ed number of copies signed by the author will be available for sale at the
  event.\n\nIn "THOBNA" Wafa Ghnaim celebrates messages of freedom\, resist
 ance and liberation embedded in Palestinian embroidery produced after 1948
 . Written and published exactly five years after her first book\, “Tatre
 ez &amp\; Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora” 
 (2018)\, Ghnaim moves from documenting the oral history and tatreez patter
 ns passed down to her by her mother\, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-G
 hnaim\, to cultivating a reclamation process for identifying and rescuing 
 Palestinian dresses in the diaspora in “THOBNA.”\n\n“THOBNA” (Arab
 ic for “our dress”) acknowledges the scholarship of Palestinian Elders
  that guided Ghnaim’s growth in the field. Representing a major turning 
 point in her career that inspired her study of Palestinian dress history w
 ithin an academic context\, this book focuses on the path a Palestinian dr
 ess\, or thobe\, takes before arriving in a museum collection. Ghnaim deta
 ils the ethics involved with Palestinian dress reclamation in the United S
 tates and the tremendous role museums can play in providing long-term viab
 ility for meaningful access to Palestinian dress collections.\n\nUsing her
  extensive knowledge and studies of Palestinian thobes found in various mu
 seums\, Ghnaim offers 47 pages of detailed patterns\, and 20 pages of supp
 lies and technique instruction in adherence to Palestinian tradition. Thes
 e patterns\, digitized especially for “THOBNA\,” offer a fresh look at
  how tatreez was incorporated into Palestinian resistance during the 1980s
  and beyond.\n\nAn explicit celebration of Palestinian reclamation\, resis
 tance and freedom\, “THOBNA” releases after 75 years of Palestinian di
 splacement\, dispossession and exile. Ghnaim offers thoughtful insight int
 o the reclamation process of THOBNA in the diaspora\, and in the same brea
 th\, elevates the many Palestinian women who came before her to lay the gr
 oundwork for a stitched path to freedom. In “THOBNA\,” Ghnaim reclaims
  each thobe\, one by one\, as a love letter to the Palestinian community\,
  ensuring that resistance tatreez revives once again in the diaspora to co
 ntinue to reflect a resilient past and hopeful future.\n\nYou can learn mo
 re about Wafa's work at tatreezandtea.com and about her debut exhibition\,
  TATREEZ INHERITANCE\, currently on show at Museum of the Palestinian Peop
 le\, at mpp-dc.org/tatreez.\n\nResilience Monthly Club members can use the
  code 1948 to attend this event free of charge.\n\nPhoto: Thobe al Malak (
 Bethlehem) featured in TATREEZ INHERITANCE\, and in "THOBNA." Photograph b
 y Farrah Skeiky (2023).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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