Opinion
Reclaiming Palestinian Beauty, One Wall Label at a Time
On a visit to the Brooklyn Museum on October 7, 2023, I felt proud to see a Palestinian “thobe” like the ones I study. But then I saw the wall label.
Wafa Ghnaim is a Palestinian dress historian, researcher, author, curator, and educator, who began learning embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim, when she was two years old.