Thursday, March 6, 6:30pm ET - Livestream & in person at Plymouth Church UCC, 501 W. Berry, Fort Wayne IN

WAFA GHNAIM: Palestinian Embroidery, Storytelling, and Resistance

Wafa Ghnaim is a Palestinian dress historian, author, curator, and educator who learned embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim.   

The Author of Tatreez & Tea, and founder of The Tatreez Institute, Wafa teaches courses in Palestinian, Syrian and Jordanian embroidery techniques. She was the first-ever Palestinian embroidery instructor at the Smithsonian Museum; Vogue Magazine named her and her mother “the world’s leading guardians of tatreez”.

Wafa is currently the Curator for the Museum of the Palestinian People and Research Scholar for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art.

Free, open to the public

All programs are live-streamed and posted as a video a few days after the event on our YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@inCMEP/videos