There is barely time for introductions before the women at Inaash Association are proudly unfurling their work for me. Reams of fabric embroidered with Palestinian tatreez are piled onto the table. Deep crimson motifs bloom against fields of black and ivory; lozenges, cypress trees, and amulets thread their way into measured geometric grids. At the center, there is a rectangular piece of material emblazoned with a map. “It is the map of Palestine,” Samar Kabuli, the head embroiderer at Inaash, tells me. One by one, each of the women points to a place on the map that their family once called home.

Rula Fayez Baraka, a 45-year-old refugee living in Lebanon and an embroiderer at Inaash, tells me that she has spent her entire life in exile. “Israeli settlers forcibly took our house during

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