Tarwida
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About this podcast
Tarwida is a series of conversations that bring Palestinian arts, culture and heritage to the forefront. We hear from artists including writers, filmmakers, musicians, architects, culinary practitioners and more about their very own Palestine.
In a nutshell, if you want to know more about (Creative) Palestine, this is the place to be.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 53 episodes
- Growing Up as the Daughter of a Palestinian Martyr | Raeda Taha (Arabic Episode) · 1 h 4 min · Episode 52At the age of seven, Palestinian writer and actress Raeda Taha lost her father, Ali Taha, during a plane hijacking operation bound for Tel Aviv. Overnight, she became the…
- 1000 Forgotten Photographs from Gaza | Kegham Djeghalian · 58 min · Episode 51Gaza's first professional photography studio opened in 1944, founded by an Armenian genocide survivor. Decades later, his grandson found its surviving negatives in a closet in…
- Reimagining Palestinian Architecture | Elias Khuri (Arabic Episode) · 34 min · Episode 50What makes a place feel like itself? In this episode of Tarwida, Palestinian architect Elias Khuri explores architecture as a layering of people, histories, nature, language, and…
- Palestine Through the Eyes of an Architect | Nadi Abusaada · 45 min · Episode 49What happens when a city itself becomes an archive? In this episode, architect and historian Nadi Abusaada takes us through different Palestinian cities to explore how material…
- Archaeology, Architecture & the Politics of Glass | Dima Srouji · 53 min · Episode 48Palestinian artist Dima Srouji doesn't work in one discipline — she works in scale. In this episode, we sit down with Srouji to trace her path from architecture school at Yale to…
- The Brush that Carried a Homeland I Sliman Mansour (Rerun) · 50 min · Episode 47Few artists have captured the soul of Palestine the way Sliman Mansour has. His paintings featuring olive trees, stone terraces, mud, and the steadfast women of the land have…
- 89 Years of Palestinian Art, Resistance & Abstraction | Samia Halaby · 1 h 8 min · Episode 46"Establish our own discourse. Theirs is rotten. We don't need it." That's Samia Halaby — Palestinian abstract painter, scholar, activist, and at 89, one of the most vital voices…
- Palestine's Museums — From Connecticut to Edinburgh to Venice | Faisal Saleh · 48 min · Episode 45"We spent all our lives walking into other people's museums. The time had come to walk into our own." Today, we sit down with Faisal Saleh — Palestinian entrepreneur…
- Palestinian Dabke & Dance as Resistance | El-Funoun · 48 min · Episode 44In this episode of Tarwida, we sit down with Noora Baker, Head of Production at El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe — one of the most celebrated Palestinian folk dance companies…
- Makdisi Street x Tarwida Podcast: "They carried a memory in their head" | Dr. Salman Abu Sitta · 1 h 30 min · Episode 43In this episode of Tarwida, we share a remarkable conversation with Dr. Salman Abu Sitta — cartographer, historian, and founder of the Palestine Land Society — recorded on the…
- Filmmaking, Looted Museums, and Palestinian Art as Resistance | Amer Shomali (Replay) · 1 h 5 min · Episode 42In this re-release of one of our favorite conversations from last year, multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and director of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, Amer Shomali, sits…
- How a Palestinian Prisoner Won the Booker Prize | Bassem Khandaqji (Arabic Episode) · 1 h 15 min · Episode 41Bassem Khandaqji is a Palestinian novelist from Nablus who spent more than 2 decades in Israeli prison, sentenced to three life terms. In 2024, while still behind bars, he won…
- The Language of Tatreez: How Palestinian Embroidery Became a Symbol of Identity and Artistic Narrative | Joanna Barakat · 55 min · Episode 40What made Tatreez — Palestinian embroidery — the symbol of Palestinian identity? Not ceramics, not glass blowing, not straw weaving. Why the stitch? Today, we sit down with…
- The Gaza Kitchen: Food, Resistance, and Reclaiming Narrative | Laila El-Haddad · 1 h 11 min · Episode 39Today, Palestinian author and activist Laila El-Haddad explores the intersection of food, politics, and identity. Discussing her acclaimed books The Gaza Kitchen and Gaza Mom…
- Zaghareed, Hakawati and Palestinian Storytelling | Sally Shalabi · 49 min · Episode 38Long before books and screens, people relied on storytelling to connect with one another, remember their past, and make sense of the world around them. In this episode, we sit…
- Women Artists in Times of War | Lilies of Gaza (Arabic Episode) · 54 min · Episode 37In an effort to preserve and document the work of 22 female artists from Gaza, a book titled Lilies of Gaza was created bringing together their paintings, voices, and stories. In…
- Food is Political | Fadi Kattan (Replay) · 55 min · Episode 36Join us as we welcome renowned chef Fadi Kattan to Tarwida, diving deep into his rich family heritage and unique culinary journey. Fadi shares fascinating stories of his…
- Palestinian Stand Up Comedy | Alaa Abu Diab (Arabic Episode) · 36 min · Episode 35In this episode of Tarwida, we sit down with Palestinian comedian Alaa Abu Diab for a sharp, poignant, and darkly witty conversation. We talk stand-up comedy as a craft: how…
- The Voice of Hind Rajab | Kaouther Ben Hania (Arabic Episode) · 46 min · Episode 34When six-year-old Hind Rajab reached out to the Red Cross for help in January 2024, the ambulance car was 8 minutes away from her. She could have been saved, but instead, the…
- From Nakba to Now: Palestinian Memory, Cinema, and Resistance | Cherien Dabis · 40 min · Episode 33During the 1990 Gulf War, Palestinian filmmaker, writer, and actress Cherien Dabis experienced racism for the first time while living in the United States. These experiences…
