Tatreez: Palestinian Embroidery
This course explores Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) as a living cultural practice, a visual language, and a form of ontological and feminist resistance. Moving beyond craft-based readings, the course situates tatreez within broader historical, political, and decolonial frameworks, examining how stitched motifs encode memory, identity, gendered labour, and survival under conditions of displacement and colonial violence.
Drawing on art history, visual culture, feminist theory, and contemporary artistic practice, the course traces tatreez from its historical and pre-colonial roots through to its re-emergence in nationalist narratives, women’s resistance movements, and contemporary Palestinian art. Particular attention is given to how women artists reinterpret embroidery today, shifting it from intangible heritage into a critical feminist praxis.
The course is designed for participants with an interest in Arab art, visual culture, feminist studies, and decolonial practices, and requires no prior knowledge of embroidery.
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Meet Your Tutor
May Qadoura is a Jordanian Palestinian multidisciplinary visual artist working across installation, sculpture, painting, and mixed media. Her practice explores themes of memory, resilience, identity, and collective experience, with a particular focus on women’s lived realities and the politics of representation.
Drawing on a wide range of materials, including textiles, handmade paper, found objects, and organic and recycled matter, Qadoura creates layered works that respond to displacement, cultural inheritance, and humanitarian struggle. Elements of traditional craft, including embroidery, appear within her practice as conceptual and material references rather than purely decorative forms, reworked through contemporary artistic frameworks.
She holds a BA in Pharmacy, a BA in Visual Arts (Painting), and an MA in Fine Art from the University of Brighton (UK). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at The Regency Town House Gallery, Darat al Funun, Al Markhiya Gallery, and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts.
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