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Watan
A creative arts shop focused on exploring Palestinian intellectual, cultural, and historical heritage.
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Watan ಫೆಬ್ರವರಿ 11
And we're back with another giveaway, continuing to give some love back this February! Tatreez is in all of our hearts, from the cross-stitch that reminds us of our teta's beautiful hands to the thobes that our mothers passed down to us — Palestinian emb…
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"There are those who will consider it their duty, as friends of the Negro people, to tell us to revile him, to flee, even from the presence of his memory, to save ourselves by writing him out of the history of our turbulent times. Many will ask what Harl…
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Watan ಫೆಬ್ರವರಿ 9
The cutest sheep taking a nap in the middle of Suleiman Road, at Herod's Gate (north wall) in Jerusalem circa early 1900s. Can you say 🐑fluffy🐑? (Source: American Colony Collection at the Library of Congress)
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Watan ಫೆಬ್ರವರಿ 7
Quite honored to have contributed the album art to @clarissabitar and ’s “Bellydancing on Wounds”. The oud excerpts and musical accompaniment is AMAZING, Clarissa. 🔥🇵🇸 You can find the album on iTunes, Spotify, and a bunch of other pl…
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Watan ಫೆಬ್ರವರಿ 6
Love and repeat. 👵🏽👴🏽❤️
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Watan ಫೆಬ್ರವರಿ 6
Apply for a *paid* internship with Watan & NEXT GIVEAWAY SNEAK PEEK! -
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**TO ALL US-BASED CREATIVES** We are looking for a bright and capable graphic designer to join our team! Applications for our *paid* Spring 2019 Graphic Design Internship are now open: or you can find the link under our bio. Th…
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Watan ಫೆಬ್ರವರಿ 5
We did tell you that we weren't re-stocking last year's Valentine cards, right? That's because we wanted to change things up this year! ❤️ We created these new "3ajooz Love" stickers as a cute Valentine to give to your loved ones to carry year-round. We'…
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Watan ಫೆಬ್ರವರಿ 5
Particularly interested in archiving lately, constantly with thought "how is some PhD student going to read what we do, we say, we position ourselves through all the material we're leaving behind in our education, organizing, work, fights against the gov…
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Watan ಫೆಬ್ರವರಿ 4
Kuffiyehs keeping us Chicagoans cozy this winter. 🥶 Check out a wide variety of Watan pins--perfect for bags, clothing, and more. You can also find all our pins (and other pieces) at our studio storefront! We're open Mondays and Wednesdays 1PM-7PM an…
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Watan ಫೆಬ್ರವರಿ 2
Giving back some love this February and the only way we know how is to send some of our art all over the world! For the first of the many giveaways happening this month, we're giving away this distressed gold XL Olive Branch Palestine map (a mouthful). T…
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Watan ಜನವರಿ 29
Updated and restocked Mahmoud Darwish "On This Land" cuffs are now available in both silver and gold. ✨ The translation of this famed line of poetry: "we have on this land that which makes life worth living".
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Imagine painting Chicago in our patterns... ❄️🇵🇸
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Little waste pieces of Palestine maps are the cutest. 🇵🇸😄
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Archived pages of newspapers--anyone know any comprehensive Palestinian digital sources? Can you imagine digging into certain dates and seeing how we talked about what was happening, how we saw ourselves as Palestinians? This page of the Palestine Newspa…
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Translation from the Arabic: 😪. Experimenting with new ideas, colors, etc. What do y'all think?
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Thanks, Canary, for having source material for illustrations of great Palestinian oud musicians. You might not be entirely useless... 😜💁🏽‍♀️ But in all seriousness, folks who keep Middle Eastern music traditions alive even in diaspora (like Ghiyath here)…
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What is the balance to our inclination of turning so many things in/about our movement into symbols? Would we sacrifice our symbols when they stopped aligning with our principles? Would we remember our principles? (Photo: Mohammed Zaanoun, from the Great…
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“For many years I managed to hold on to the hope that the settlements would not be permanent. I had meticulously documented the illegal process by which they came to be established, every step of the way. I felt that as long as I understood, as long as …
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