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Items by Aisha Elmasri
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MEMO in conversation with Wafa Ghnaim
MEMO interviewed Palestinian-American author and businesswoman Wafa Ghnaim. Her book, Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora, was nominated for the Palestine Book Awards in 2018. Ghnaim shared with us the roots of her passion for tatreez (the Arabic word for Palestinian embroidery), and how she developed the title of…
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MEMO in conversation with Rifk Ebeid
MEMO‘s Conversations spoke to Palestinain-American author Rifk Ebid to discuss her recent children’s book ‘Baba, What Does my Name Mean?’. The book has been nominated for the Palestine Book Awards 2020 and came in highly recommended by our panel of judges. Rifk has a JD from George Mason University, an…