Decades later, Samar Kabouli still fondly recalls gathering with women in her family and sipping cardamom-spiced coffee as they embroidered fabric with colorful threads in traditional Palestinian ...

Tatreez, traditional Palestinian embroidery, is helping diaspora communities preserve heritage, tell personal and collective histories, and find resilience through generations of displacement and war.

There is barely time for introductions before the women at Inaash Association are proudly unfurling their work for me. Reams of fabric embroidered with Palestinian tatreez are piled onto the table.

A man gets down on one knee. A velvet box in his hand and four words on his lips. You can guess what happens next. Except, in a thatched hut in the desert of Kutch, I ...