Next Thursday, December 14th at 8:00 pm, Casa Árabe will be screening the documentary Stitching Palestine (2017), and there will be a discussion with its director, Carol Mansour, as part of the activities that Casa Árabe is dedicating to Palestinian embroidery or ‘tatriz’.
Twelve Palestinian women sit before the spectator and talk about their lives before the diaspora, their memories, their lives and their identity. Their stories are linked by the enduring thread of the ancient art of embroidery. Twelve resilient, determined and eloquent women from different walks of life – lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects and politicians – stitch together the story of their homeland, of their dispossession and of their unwavering determination to see justice prevail. Through their stories, the individual is intertwined with the collective, while remaining distinctly personal. Twelve women, twelve lives and stories of Palestine; a land whose position was fixed on the map of the world, but which is now embroidered on its face.
