WASHINGTON REPORT
Palestinian Embroidery Motifs

WASHINGTON REPORT

Palestinian Embroidery Motifs One of the strengths of this book is its presentation of simple patterns of the many embroidery motifs. For anyone in...

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QANTARA
Palestinian Embroidery Motifs

QANTARA

Dresses That Tell Stories Judging by the patterns of the embroidery on a dress, one can determine where someone comes from - almost each Palestinia...

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LIVING WELL
Palestinian Embroidery Motifs

LIVING WELL

A Treasury of Stitches "To the Palestinian women of the past and present whose needles magically create A Treasury of Stitches" A Treasury of Stit...

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HAARETZ
Palestinian Embroidery Motifs

HAARETZ

A Stitch in Time In her book on Palestinian embroidery, an art she decribes as a 'pharmacy of the soul,' Margarita Skinner shows how certain patte...

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JORDAN TIMES
Palestinian Embroidery Motifs

JORDAN TIMES

The Art of the Needle The title of this book is an accurate description of its contents, but it hardly prepares the reader for the sheer beauty to ...

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GULF TODAY
Palestinian Embroidery Motifs

GULF TODAY

Motifs of Distinction The beautiful embroidery traditional Palestinian thobe remains the most potent symbol of this occupied and dispersed nation....

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DAILY STAR
Little Lantern

DAILY STAR

Kanafani's 'Little Lantern' gets a new lease on life   BEIRUT: The life of Ghassan Kanafani, celebrated Palestinian artist and writer, was commemo...

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THIS WEEK IN PALESTINE
Life at the Crossroads

THIS WEEK IN PALESTINE

Life at the Crossroads   It is perhaps a very appropriate year to re-read Gerald Butt's 1995 Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza. The many m...

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HAARETZ
Little Lantern

HAARETZ

'Lanterns' light up Ramallah   RAMALLAH - What does a childhood without music look like? What does the world look like for children who do not lea...

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SUNJET MAGAZINE
Tolou and the Cats of Paphos

SUNJET MAGAZINE

Tolou and the Cats of Paphos 'So famous was she now for her acts of healing that her name was known Southwards throughout the Akamas peninsula and ...

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THE GUARDIAN
Jerusalem Trilogy

THE GUARDIAN

The Secret City Despite frequent references in the Psalms to "the peace of Jerusalem", the Holy City has probably seen more rapine and pillage tha...

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SUNDAY STAR TIMES
Cyprus: An Island Apart

SUNDAY STAR TIMES

An Island Apart ...this book fits nicely next to Laurence Durrell's Bitter Lemons and Colin Thornton's Journey into Cyprus. On the eastern Mediterr...

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