This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Rami Kashou, a Palestinian American fashion designer. The essay has been edited for length and clarity. I was born in Jerusalem and raised ...

Hanan Zarura designs a tatreez pattern in her workshop in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Every Palestinian region has its own unique embroidery design, and Zarura — who has never ...

The seamstresses in this workshop are second and third-generation Palestinian refugees. Most of them were born in the surrounding refugee camp, called Shatila, near a sports stadium in a southern ...

Some people on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict believe ... also has her own collection of children’s clothing. She said the designs for the products are made almost a year ...

Fashion mannequin. (credit: GETTY IMAGES) That’s undoubtedly true. “Free Palestine” was the motto ... proceeded to translate it visually into designs on shirts for gays.