Decades later, Samar Kabouli still fondly recalls gathering with women in her family and sipping cardamom-spiced coffee as they embroidered fabric with colorful threads in traditional Palestinian patterns. Born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees, Kabouli had never seen her parents’ homeland. But more than just making pretty designs, the threads in her needle were stitching a connection to her heritage. It’s known as “tatreez,” and Kabouli, 48, started doing the traditional form of Palestinian embroidery in her teens to make money.

Decades later, Samar Kabouli still fondly recalls gathering with women in her family and sipping cardamom-spiced coffee as they embroidered fabric with colorful threads in…

Décadas después, Samar Kabouli aún recuerda con cariño cómo se reunía con las mujeres de su familia y bebía café aromatizado con cardamomo mientras bordaban patrones tradicionales…

Through tatreez embroidery, Palestinian women weave memory, identity and resilience into every stitch, across generations and across distance from their...