The Bedouin Embroidering Her Heritage Onto Plates

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The Bedouin Embroidering Her Heritage Onto Plates

By Naama Barak When Zenab Grabia was a young girl, she didn’t know any female ceramic artists in her community. There simply weren’t any. But thanks to her, nowadays young women from the Bedouin community have a successful role model in this craft. Grabia lives with her family in the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom in the Negev, which is […]

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