Women and girls wore their thobes as part of a social media campaign to honor the Michigan Democrat. Some posted photos on Twitter and Instagram with #TweetYourThobe, while others traveled to the ...

Rashida Tlaib made history Thursday at the 116th Congress swearing-in ceremony, becoming one of the first Muslim women in Congress, alongside Ilan Omar. The democrat from Michigan decided to wear ...

Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, became the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress. At her swearing-in, she wore a thobe, a dress with Palestinian embroidery ...

Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib wore a thobe to her swearing-in ceremony, and women responded on social media with photographs of themselves wearing the elaborate embroidered Palestinian dress.

While Arab women across the region have worn hand-made dresses for centuries, the thobe has taken on a distinctly Palestinian character, particularly since the establishment of Israel in 1948.

Every thobe is a dress embroidered with the stories, the loves, the tragedies of Palestinian women. The world will never be broken, because we will always stitch it back together & make it beautiful.

Each thobe, traditional Palestinian clothing for women, has a specific tatreez embroidery design, which entails the stories of the woman’s heritage, hometown, and ancestry. Advertisement ...

During the 2018 midterm elections, Rashida Tlaib made history by becoming the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to Congress. In a tribute to her heritage, Tlaib plans to wear a ...

Thobe patterns also expressed women’s different social positions: red for brides, blue for widows, blue with multi-colored stitches for widows considering remarriage. While Arab women across the ...

She said she remembers her mother — Fatima Elabed, who turned 63 in mid-December — and other women in her Detroit family sewing thobes when she and her siblings were young.

Hundreds of Palestinian women have flooded social media platforms with pictures of their intricately embroidered Palestinian thobes (dresses) as part of a new online campaign to highlight and ...