Palestinian culture

Tatreez reborn: Young designers give Palestinian embroidery new life

As Palestinian embroidery appears in contemporary fashion, artists and educators are navigating the balance between innovation and preservation

|ByKORAL SAEED
Nomai Hadba wears trousers from his 2025 menswear collection, which incorporates traditional Palestinian Tatreez into contemporary fashion.Premium
Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook the Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall. A shared song on a Jerusalem street can offer a rare moment of connection in a city where identity and politics so often shape encounters between strangers. PremiumPremium

Singing together across the divide: What a Jerusalem chorus taught me - comment

One familiar melody on a Jerusalem street became a reminder that music can open doors where conversation alone often cannot

|BySHIFRA JACOBS
A child wears a Hamas head banner after Friday prayers in Gaza City.

Indoctrinating innocents: From the Khmer Rouge to Hamas, the art of child indoctrination

A former Khmer Rouge child soldier speaks to the Magazine about his time in the Cambodian communist organization, and how many Palestinian groups use similar methods of indoctrination.

|ByALEX WINSTON
Remains of destroyed buildings in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, are pictured through the Egypt-Gaza border, in Rafah, Egypt, July 4, 2024.

‘Traders in our blood’: Gazan pleads to be saved from Hamas ‘before the Jews’

Palestinians have increasingly spoken out against the Hamas terrorists running the Gaza Strip.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pittsburgh art show cancelled after Israelis withdraw to 'protect the Palestinian artists'

Palestinian artists originally planned to withdraw because joint Israeli-Palestinian show was referred to as a collaboration.

JUNE 2, 2014ByJTA
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WATCH: Gazan child recites violent Nakba poem

As part of a Gazan children's show for Nakba Day, a very young girl recites a violent poem called "The Bullet."

MAY 22, 2014ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Zahra Zaed recites "The Bullet" on a Gazan kids show.

Testing the boundaries of art and conflict

How an art organization founded by an Israeli entrepreneur, an Israeli economist and a Jewish American museum director is helping to support Palestinian artists.

MAY 15, 2014ByYARDENA SCHWARTZ
‘The Wedding Night’ by Dina Mattar.