Eventually, Abbasi-Ghnaim married, and in 1979 she and her husband immigrated to the United States. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, those first few years, Abbasi-Ghnaim was lonely and afraid to tell anyone that she was Arab and Muslim. But then she joined a women’s group called the Cambridge Women’s History Oral History Center and began to teach tatreez to other women from across the world who had come to call Massachusetts home, with her three young daughters acting as her assistants. There, she led the women in embroidering tapestries detailed with experiences from their lives. The tapestry Abbasi-Ghnaim embroidered would eventually be exhibited at the United Nations’ 1985 World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya.
Later, after the Ghnaim family had moved to Oregon and their daughters had grown into teenagers, Abbasi-Ghnaim received support from the Oregon Folklife Network to formally teach her daughters tatreez. When her girls were little, she had begun embroidering another thobe but found she never had time to work on it. Now that they were older, she pulled the dress out of storage and guided her daughters through the design, teaching them the stories of each pattern.
Tatreez “is unwritten language, transferred stories between woman and woman in silence,” says Abbasi-Ghnaim. When formal schooling in reading and writing was limited to men, Palestinian women learned to tell their stories through embroidery. “We want to keep the stories alive.”
In 2016, when Ghnaim sat down to begin writing Tatreez & Tea, the experience of embroidering with her mother over a cup of tea while learning her people’s stories was at the front of her mind. “I had this very strong calling to write a book that documented all of the lessons that she had spent her life teaching me and my sisters,” said Ghnaim. With funding from the Brooklyn Arts Council, she began photographing and researching patterns to create an oral history that emphasized the stories behind the motifs. By the time Ghnaim published Tatreez & Tea in 2018, she had been teaching tatreez classes for about a year. That same year, Abbasi-Ghnaim was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts, making her the first Palestinian woman to receive the award.
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