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JERUSALEM POST

Anna's House JERUSALEM'S AMERICAN Colony Hotel, the former local headquarters for Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair, for many years a favorite watering hole for foreign journalists, spies and p...

AL JEZEERA

عودة رئيس الوزراء الليبي في العهد الملكي قال رئيس وزراء ليبيا في العهد الملكي (1954-1957) مصطفى بن حليم إنه كان من الأجدى محاكمة العقيد الليبي الراحل معمر القذافي على تدمير البلاد طيلة فترة حكمه، ...

CYPRUS WEEKLY

Taking to the Skies Book by British journalist takes a look at aviation history in Middle East.  Cyprus had served as an escape for people working in Iraq and the Gulf as early as 1832, a newly pu...

GULF TODAY

Flight to Progress The citizens of the world take air travel for granted. Businessmen and women, families, school and university pupils, tourists, shoppers attending festivals take to the air as a...

HEIDI TRAUTMANN

From Famagusta to Vienna Presentation of a new book by Greek Cypriot author Niki Marangou at the Naci Talat Peace and Guest House in Nicosia on November 29, 2011 at 19:00 hrs. The presentation was ...

WASHINGTON REPORT

Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution   With roots thousands of years old, Palestinian costume is a rich tradition that evolved over time to form through color and pattern a visu...

REAL TRAVEL ADVENTURES

Threads of Identity by Widad Kamel Kawar is a most fascinating compendium of the heritage of Palestine through costumes and fabrics. The author is one of the foremost authorities on the subject and...

HAARETZ

The 'Queen of Palestine'   A 'non-meeting' in the Jordanian capital with the woman who owns and knows more about Palestinian dresses than anybody else, but is convinced there is no one left that e...

MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL

Jerusalemites Love for Jerusalem and devotion to the cause of justice and the human rights of the Palestinians are dominant features of this au­tobiography written by a distinguished man born in t...

JORDAN TIMES

Memories of the American Colony The American Colony, now East Jerusalem's most luxurious and expensive hotel, has a long, conflicted history that illuminates what has happened in Palestine over th...

TIMEOUT BEIRUT

Threads of Identity There’s something just so wonderful about ‘Threads of Identity’ – an intelligent, visually delicious compendium of women’s traditional costumes and life stories that have been c...

ROYAL NORWEGIAN EMBASSY

Anna’s House THE ROYAL NORWEGIAN EMBASSY, Tel Aviv - Anna’s House by Norwegian Author Odd Karsten Tveit Anna's House, a book about the American Colony Hotel through the eyes of its founder Anna Sp...

INQUISITOR

Palestinian Embroidery Motifs Last year when we were working on the posters for Israeli Apartheid Week: Beirut we were researching symbolic references to Palestine, and came across this amazing bo...

IRISH TIMES

An Irishman's Diary As evening shadows were beginning to lengthen over the British empire towards the middle of the last century, Egypt continued to bask in imperial sunshine. While never formally ...

ASSAFIR

  نكي مارانغو: «من فاماغوستا إلى فيينا»رواية السيرة الذاتية والتحوّلات العالمية في آن واحد. سيرة عائلة عاد تاريخها إلى بدايات القرن الفائت والحرب العالمية الأولى، وصولاً إلى اللحظة الراهنة. وسيرة ت...

JORDAN MUSEUM

Book Acknowledgement Mrs. Widad Kamel Kawar is a member on the Board of Trustees of the Jordan Museum. Her continuous efforts and support towards the Museum are extremely valued and appreciated. We...

JERUSAELM FUND

Threads of Identity One of the leading authorities on Palestinian costume, Widad Kamel Kawar takes a unique approach to the topic in her latest book, Threads of Identity. While this handsomely-illu...

THE GUARDIAN

Ahmed Masoud: Was I switched at birth?   After Ahmed Masoud was born in Gaza, the hospital was bombed. His father rushed to the special care unit – but did he take home the right baby? I had a very...

SAUDI ARAMCO WORLD

Life at the Crossroads   This is a comprehensive yet concise chronicle of Gaza's history from ancient times to the end of the 2008-2009 Israeli war against the territory's Hamas-led administration...

MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

LIBRARY BOOKWACTH - Reviewer's Choice Threads of Identity: Preserving Palestinian Costume and Heritage is the culmination of years of research and documentation of Arab costumes, textiles, and arti...

CHIVVIS MOORE

Threads of Identity In this spectacular volume Widad Kamel Kawar has created a work of art -- through photography, narrative and oral history -- as valuable as the women's legacy she describes. St...

NEW YORK TIMES

Women in the Orient   PARIS — The vivid neon lights act like beacons, leading past ancient artifacts carved out of wood and stone, toward an explosion of vivid color on elaborate robes.   The trian...

CYPRUS MAIL

Playing with Words It's Cyprus in the 1920s and a young man travels from his small town home in Famagusta to study medicine in Vienna. Dazzled by the opulent culture of the big city, George falls ...

ADDASTOUR

Kawar Signs "Threads of Identity" Mrs Layla Sharaf has described the book Threads of Identity as a humanitarian and artistic piece of work on civilization, which aspires to preserve the national m...

AL GHAD

Threads of Identity Book Launch in Amman Kawar Signs Threads of Identity With a Presentation on the History of Women Who Have Reflected a Social Fabric in the Palestinian costumes.   The researcher...

AL JAZEERA

Threads of Identity…Beauty Illustrates Steadfastness   The author Widad Kawar held a book-signing ceremony at the Orthodox Club in Amman for her English-language book Threads of Identity, which ill...

THIS WEEK IN PALESTINE

Book of the Month A small country like Palestine has a great variety of traditional costumes, and it took me a long time to publish the material I have collected on them because I wanted my researc...

AL DIYAR

Rue de Mexique & Other Stories Rimal Publications has held a launch for the book "Rue du Mexique and Other Stories" by Suhail Bulos. The book is in English and consists of 128 pages, in which ...

CYPRUS MAIL

Paradise Found Shirley Kay is full of passion for life. But that's not what makes her unique. Personal passion is something we all possess in one way or another; Shirley, however, likes to take thi...

ALMUSTAQBAL

سهيل بولس يطلق كتابه طلقت منشورات رمال في حفل إصدار كتاب "شارع المكسيك وقصص أخرى" لسهيل بولس، وذلك في مطعم المولينو في سنتر مارينيان في الحمراء، فوق مسرح بابل، يوم امس الأربعاء.والكتاب، باللغة الإن...

ELECTRONIC INTIFADA

Gaza’s Ancient Treasures Threatened GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical tr...

PISSOURI CONTACT

A Must-Have Book A must-have book for residents and visitors. Author Shirley Kay lives in a sympathetically restored old house in Anogyra; as the massive front door opens from the street, the view...

CYPRUS GOURMET

Book Review of Olives & Lemons This is the sort of book visitors who have more than the sun-sea-sand-and-sex interest in Cyprus buy to take home, and one that we residents always have on the b...

SUNJET

Olives & Lemons For more than two decades, Shirley Kay has been either visiting or living in the Cypriot village of Anogyra. Over the years she has accumulated a vast amount of knowledge on the...

GRAPEVINE

Olives & Lemons Why do we sometimes see a pair if horns hanging above a gateway, a wax offering of a body part in lonely little-used churches, what do old nylon stockings have to do with anari...

FINANCIAL TIMES

Beware of Small States Beware of small states," the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin warned a friend in 1870. In an age when small-state nationalism shook the politics of Europe from Belgium to th...

GLOBAL DIALOGUE

Life at the Crossroads A Long Experience of War': Gaza in Historical Perspective Before Israel’s blitz on the Gaza Strip in late-2008/early-2009, one might have found individuals around the world w...

AL ITTIHAD

 منشورات الرمال.. الحنين إلى غزَة منشورات الرمال القبرصية تديرها امرأة فلسطينية تدعى نوره الشوا وحين سألناها عن سر تسمية الدار بهذا الاسم وبخاصة أنها تنشر من قبرص قالت: سميت الدار بهذا الاسم نسبة إ...

AL RAI

Poems and Paintings from the Depth of Exile   A Number of Poems and Paintings From the Depth of Exile: Najwa Kawar Farah Writes To Palestine With Love.   Rimal Publications in Nicosia recently pub...

JORDAN TIMES

A Feast for the Eyes A rainbow of colour, a wealth of information, centuries of traditions and skill, but above all, a precious point of reference for any serious ethnologist or historian - all in ...