Cinema and discussion at Casa Arabe with the documentary ‘Stitching Palestine’

Next Thursday, December 14 at 8 p.m., Arab House screens the documentary Stitching Palestine (2017) and a discussion will be held with its director, Carol Mansour, within the framework of the activities that Casa Arabe dedicates to Palestinian embroidery or ‘tatriz’.

Twelve Palestinian women sit before the viewer and talk about their lives before the diaspora, their memories, their lives and their identity. Their stories are linked by the enduring thread of the ancient art of embroidery. Twelve resilient, determined and eloquent women, from different professions and social conditions: lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects and politicians, stitch together the history of their homeland, its dispossession and its unwavering determination that justice prevail. . Through their stories, the individual is intertwined with the collective, while remaining clearly personal. Twelve women, twelve lives and stories of Palestine; a land whose position was fixed on the map of the world, but which is now embroidered on her face.