Meet Your Instructor & Founder
Samia is a Palestinian-American public educator and embroiderer. She has been teaching Palestinian thobe-making and embroidery online since 2020. Since then, she has taught various project-based courses, high school embroidery courses for teens, introductory classes, and mentored practitioners on more advanced research-based projects including the remaking of historic garments stitch by stitch. Samia’s personal practice centers on the historic methods and materials of Palestinian garment-making. Below, please see examples of her work.
The Winter 2025 Cohort of The Thobe Project will begin on Friday, January 17th.
Each cohort of The Thobe Project brings together a group of global practitioners utilizing generational knowledge and ancestral practices to embroider our stories.
The Thobe Project, formerly Tales of Tatreez, began as a long-held tatreez dream of mine. First launched in February of 2020, each class and cohort was designed to be project-based so that practitioners at any level of their journey would grow in their confidence and skills. In the Fall of 2020, the first cohort of The Thobe Project launched - the first thobe-making course to take a fully historic approach informed directly by our elders and ancestors. Since then, The Thobe Project continues to bring together global practitioners in each cohort embracing ancestral Palestinian practices and embroidering our stories.
