Stories from Jerusalem / Al Quds
As a tour guide in Jerusalem, I have developed many tours with different themes, that take you all around the city and sometimes we travel further out to other interesting historical places.
If you have an interest in the history of Jerusalem, then you should definitely enjoy these stories and hopefully you will join one or more tours with me in the future!
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Stories from Jerusalem / Al Quds
Thob and tatreez, the Palestinian traditional heritage dress
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A couple of years ago I received three pieces of embroidery that used to be the chest pieces of Palestinian dresses. The Palestinian dress is called a 'thob' in Arabic. The person who gave them to me said she had received them from an Israeli woman who had said: “these were from the people who used to live here”
As she didn't know what to do with them, she handed them to me. I also didn't know what was the best thing to do so I asked a Palestinian friend who is a designer and knowledgeable about Palestinian heritage. She then referred me to the Palestinian Heritage Museum in Jerusalem where I met with Bahaa Jubeh, the curator.
In the first episode we took a tour of the ground floor of the museum, focused on all kinds of heritage objects such as pottery, straw items, copper pots, metal objects and agricultural tools.
In this second episode the tour takes us to the upper floor of the museum where we focus on the history of the traditional Palestinian thobs and tatreez, the dresses with embroidery.
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