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Since 1991, the Sidreh center provides a safe, female-only environment where the women practice the traditional art of Bedouin weaving. While at the center, they can learn how to read and write in ...
A women’s weaving project in the Negev provides Bedouin women with social and economic opportunities while helping them preserve their heritage. LAKIYA, Israel (JTA) — Every April, the sheep ...
Bedouin women have been weaving rugs for generations, making and furnishing their tents with rugs from goat and camel hair. Through Sidreh, they began selling their creations in the late 1990s, ...
Today, Elsana reports that Bedouin women are undergoing a transformation — while only a handful of women went to university 10 years ago, this year there are about 350. The Association for the ...
Lilianne Donders keeps traditional Bedouin craft alive. Lilianne Donders keeps traditional Bedouin craft alive. DUBAI 31°C; ... It would be very sad if basket-weaving disappeared, ...
Throughout the summer on Thursdays, Visit Yeroham hosts “Hamshush BaAyara,” which includes activities such as tours of Lake Yeroham, concerts, star-gazing tours, Bedouin weaving workshops, and ...
There was not much evidence about bedouin crafts in Jordan,” he said. In 2013, Naouri completed his book “Hands and hearts” about traditional Jordanian bedouin weaving.
The Emirati Bedouin community’s ‘Al Sadu’ weaving handcraft, which provides soft furnishings for tents and decorative accessories for camels, was on show at Sharjah Heritage Days.
Traditional Bedouin weaving and Peruvian healing prayers are among the elements of "intangible heritage" added to Unesco's list for urgent safeguarding.
AMMAN — Fascinated by the paradoxical simplicity and complexity of traditional bedouin weaving, one Jordanian art collector has taken it upon himself to preserve the dying art.. Khalil Naouri, a ...
At Lakiya Negev Weaving, ... a Bedouin woman in her mid-20s who runs the showroom. “But now the daughters see that their mothers are useful. When women are oppressed, ...
Image caption, The traditional Saman dance from Aceh in Indonesia has been added to Unesco's list for preservation Traditional Bedouin weaving and Peruvian healing prayers are among the elements ...