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Widad Kawar
''Widad Kawar ((アラビア語:وداد قعوار )) is an internationally renowned collector of Jordanian and Palestinian ethnic and cultural arts. She has amassed an extensive collection of dresses, costumes, textiles, and jewelry over the past 50 years, seeking to preserve a culture that has been largely dispersed by conflict.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Rimal Publications )〕 Kawar is known as ''Umm l'ibas al-falastini''—the mother of Palestinian dress.
==Biography==
Kawar was born Widad Irani to Jalil Zand Irani and Haneh Sleh. Her father Jalil was an accomplished teacher and head of juvenile school system in British Mandate government of Palestine. She grew up in Bethlehem. She studied at a Quaker school in Ramallah and at the American University of Beirut.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.daratalfunun.org/main/activit/curentl/widad_kawar/widad_kawar.html )〕 Kawar has made her collection available for public viewing and has mounted exhibits of Palestinian dress around the world. She has written many books on Palestinian embroidery and is seeking to establish a Gallery of Cultural Embroidery. Recently, she collaborated with Margaret Skinner on ''A Treasury of Stitches: Palestinian Embroidery Motifs, 1850–1950'' (Rimal/Melisende).
Widad is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Center for Oriental Research.
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