Maha Al-Daya, Refugee Embroiderer in France, Preserves Gaza's Memory Through Needlework
Now a refugee in France, Maha Al-Daya reproduces through embroidery the evacuation maps dropped by the Israeli military to document the experience of Gaza's residents.
Maha Al-Daya left Gaza following the bombardments that struck the Palestinian enclave since October 2023. Now settled in France, she uses an ancestral embroidery practice to recreate the evacuation maps distributed by the Israeli military.
Through this work of thread and needle, the embroiderer seeks to embed in collective memory the lived experience of Gaza's inhabitants, transforming these documents into textile testimonies of resilience and resistance.
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