Don’t Be Long, Little Bird is one of five winners of the 2025 Student Short Film Showcase, a collaborative program from The Gotham, Focus Features and JetBlue that is available to stream via Focus ...

Embroidery From Palestine brings together more than 30 historical dresses, alongside veils, head-dresses, jewellery, ...

Rachel Dedman, the V&A’s Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East, talks to British Vogue about curating a moving exhibition exploring tatreez, traditional Palestinian embroidery.

It also showcases the regional variations in dressmaking and embroidery across Palestine, with the cut, colour, textiles, ...

Leena Sobeih created her wedding corset and skirt, featuring tatreez, or traditional Palestinian cross-stitch.

When British-Palestinian designer Leena Sobeih got engaged to husband Tom, she knew that she wanted to wear two looks for her nikkah, or religious ceremony, in Manchester. “I want to honour my ...

There are lesser-known but deeply symbolic aspects of Palestinian culture such as the traditional embroidered dresses called ‘thobes’. The colours of the threads of each stitch connect ...

Israa Alsaafin's face lights up as she drapes her silky thobe — a traditional Palestinian embroidered dress — onto a chair for her former students to admire. The four women compliment its soft ...