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Honored to receive the Public Award — People’s Choice from Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris for ‘Weaving the Land Back خيوط العودة’

To know that people connected with my community, my culture, and what I stand for through my practice means more than I can say

Thank you to everyone who supported and was part of this process

Weaving the Land Back was commissioned by @1971designspace and presented as part of the Sila Exhibition: “All That Is Left to You” at @marayaartcentre Curated by @cimazzam and @noorahijleh and founded by @kiyanart

Embroidery made in collaboration with the women of @inaashassociation

Photos by @sarah.girard.bl

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Weaving the Land Back خيوط العودة, by Palestinian textile artist Areen Hassan, has been awarded the Public Award by the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute), Paris.

Commissioned by 1971 – Design Space, Sharjah, UAE, the work was presented as part of the exhibition Sila : All That Is Left to You, held at Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE, in 2025.

The embroidery layer was created in collaboration with the women of Inaash.

The exhibition was curated by Cima Azzam and Noor Suhail, and founded by Rula Alami.

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Pretty good year 💜

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My piece ‘Study of a Cypress Tree’ is currently on view until June 21 in Madrid part of Al’Qala at the @realfabricatapices .

The piece is an ode to one of the most enduring motifs in Palestinian tatreez: the cypress tree, a symbol of resilience, steadfastness, and hope. Across the piece, the tree moves through stages of abstraction, gradually shifting form while retaining its presence, much like inherited memory, carried and transformed across generations.

Within Al’Qala, the work enters into dialogue with historical Palestinian garments and contemporary reinterpretations of tatreez. The exhibition traces Palestinian embroidery as both archive and living practice.

‘Study of a Cypress Tree’ was created in collaboration with @inaashassociation who support craftswomen in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Part of the ongoing @thesilaproject by @kiyanart

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“Al’Qala: Hilos de Historia” es una exposición única en Madrid que descubre el arte textil palestino como lenguaje de identidad, memoria y cultura.

Hay historias que no se escriben, se bordan. El arte del tatreez, el bordado palestino. El espacio no puede ser más inspirador, la @realfabricatapices . Reúne más de 60 piezas históricas y contemporáneas para explorar el bordado palestino desde una perspectiva artística y cultural. El bordado como memoria de un pueblo.

La exposición estará en la @realfabricatapices , calle Fuenterrabía 2, Madrid hasta el 5 de junio en horario de 10:00 a 13:00 y de 16:00 a 19:00 de lunes a viernes y el domingo de 10:00 a 15:00. Los sábados la exposición permanecerá cerrada. No es necesaria cita previa. El jueves 7 de mayo, la comisaria de la exposición, @nourhage_ , impartirá una charla online para explicarnos la historia de cada una de las piezas. La asistencia es gratuita. Organizado por @actcreaciontextil . Escríbeles para apuntarte y que te envíen el enlace formacion@creaciontextil.org.

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From the opening of Sila, Al’Qala at the @realfabricatapices

Her Hands, Her Land is installed on an 18th-century loom, the same loom once used to weave royal tapestries for the Royal Palace of Madrid.

A tool once used to serve power and monarchy now holds stories of land, labor, and survival. Placed within this structure, the work brings together two traditions of making; Palestinian embroidery and Spanish tapestry. Threads shift in meaning, moving between ornament and testimony, between craft and continuity.

The loom becomes a meeting point, where practices, separated by time and geography, come into relation. Embroidery appears not only as heritage, but as presence: held, repeated, and carried forward, where threads carry memory across time, and histories are not only preserved, but continuously reworked and reasserted.

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Honoured to be part of Al’Qala: Threads of History — presenting looks from Im Mortal Magenta: the colour that doesn’t exist

From 10 April to 7 June 2026, the Royal Tapestry Factory @realfabricatapices in Madrid becomes a space where threads carry memory, identity, and resistance. Al’Qala: Threads of History unfolds as a living showcase of Palestinian tatreez, moving across time, craft, and contemporary expression.

A Legacy in Threads — historical garments and textiles tracing identity through generations.

A Nation in Stitches — monumental works by Inaash artisans, mapping Palestinian regions through embroidery.

A Heritage in Motion — where tradition meets the present, and artists reimagine tatreez through new forms

To contribute my work to this dialogue — where past and present are stitched together — is deeply meaningful.

@kiyanart @thesilaproject 🩷🤍🩷
Special thanks to @cacciatorel4 💖
Royal Tapestry Factory, Tatreez Palestinian embroidery
Al’Qala: Threads of History Cultural Heritage

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Honoured to be part of Al’Qala: Threads of History — presenting looks from Im Mortal Magenta: the colour that doesn’t exist

From 10 April to 7 June 2026, the Royal Tapestry Factory @realfabricatapices in Madrid becomes a space where threads carry memory, identity, and resistance. Al’Qala: Threads of History unfolds as a living showcase of Palestinian tatreez, moving across time, craft, and contemporary expression.

A Legacy in Threads — historical garments and textiles tracing identity through generations.

A Nation in Stitches — monumental works by Inaash artisans, mapping Palestinian regions through embroidery.

A Heritage in Motion — where tradition meets the present, and artists reimagine tatreez through new forms

To contribute my work to this dialogue — where past and present are stitched together — is deeply meaningful.

@kiyanart @thesilaproject 🩷🤍🩷

Royal Tapestry Factory, Tatreez Palestinian embroidery
Al’Qala: Threads of History Cultural Heritage

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Honoured to be part of Al’Qala: Threads of History — presenting looks from Im Mortal Magenta: the colour that doesn’t exist

From 10 April to 7 June 2026, the Royal Tapestry Factory @realfabricatapices in Madrid becomes a space where threads carry memory, identity, and resistance. Al’Qala: Threads of History unfolds as a living showcase of Palestinian tatreez, moving across time, craft, and contemporary expression.

A Legacy in Threads — historical garments and textiles tracing identity through generations.

A Nation in Stitches — monumental works by Inaash artisans, mapping Palestinian regions through embroidery.

A Heritage in Motion — where tradition meets the present, and artists reimagine tatreez through new forms

To contribute my work to this dialogue — where past and present are stitched together — is deeply meaningful.

@kiyanart @thesilaproject 🩷🤍🩷

Royal Tapestry Factory, Tatreez Palestinian embroidery
Al’Qala: Threads of History Cultural Heritage

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#realfabricadetapices#rulaalami #galeriejaninerubeizbeirut

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We are pleased to announce that pieces from the Widad Kawar Collection, on loan from Tiraz Centre, are featured in Al’Qala: Hilos de Historia (Threads of History) at the @realfabricatapices in Madrid (10 April–7 June 2026).

The exhibition, which also includes works by @inaashassociation and artists of @thesilaproject charts Palestinian embroidery across past, present, and future.

We encourage colleagues and friends in Spain to visit.

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TATREEZ — A language that endures

In Madrid, Al’Qala: at the @realfabricatapices Threads of History brought together historic and contemporary Palestinian embroidery, revealing tatreez as a living language of identity, place and memory carried across generations.

As part of A Heritage in Motion, we presented works shaped by this continuity.

In Jerusalem, Held in Thread, the city was drawn into textile with a sense of stillness. The dome took shape through layered stitch, each line considered, each surface resolved with intention. Subtle beading and brooch elements entered the textile field as points of light and weight, catching reflection like a city at dusk. Their presence recalled a material language of adornment, where metal carried lineage and continuity, binding ornament to remembrance.

Placed within the Al’Qala Exhibition @thesilaproject @kiyanart , alongside generations of craft, the works settled into a wider presence.

Where what is inherited is not preserved, but continuously reformed. Exhibition open till June 5th,2026

#zaidfarouki #zaidfaroukicreates

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