I must've been 9 or 10 when I first learned tatreez. I have a vivid memory of sitting on the porch, outside our family's home in Jordan, with Teta, my grandmother, helping me with my inexplicable ...

For these women, their trade — traditional Palestinian embroidery, called tatreez — provides both ... Until then, they'd only talked on the phone. "There was a fence 2 meters [6 feet] high ...