Amman museum displays treasure trove of traditional Palestinian, Jordanian clothing
Widad Kawar has devoted her life to researching Palestinian and Jordan traditional clothing and has amassed a treasure trove over half a century.
Widad Kawar, known as Umm I’bas Al-Falastini, "mother of the Palestinian dress," has devoted her life to preserving the ethnic and cultural arts — dress, costumes, jewelry and textiles — that have been scattered across the region.
For Kawar, born in 1931 in Bethlehem, the dresses recall a happier life before the Nakba — “the catastrophe,” as Palestinians call the establishment of Israel in 1948 — when 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes.
Ma’an clothing in vibrant colors
