Artist Nour Shantout addresses the role of Palestinian embroidery across art, design, craft, and cultural politics reflecting on the circulation of embroidery across generations of women in exile. From a postcolonial feminist perspective, she further discusses institutional knowledge production and the aesthetics of ethnographic display.
Respondent: Meriem Aiouna
Nour Shantout is a Syrian-Palestinian artist, researcher, and educator whose practice spans embroidery, installation, text, and collaborative methods. Grounded in a longstanding engagement with Palestinian embroidery, her work treats this traditional craft not merely as heritage, but as a living archive of intergenerational knowledge.
Meriem Aiouna is Associate Curator of Special Projects at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar). Her practice examines the socio-cultural dimensions of design and architecture. In 2025, she co-curated Ruins, Derelicts & Erasure, featuring Nour Shantout among others.
