Dress Game: Philadelphia’s La Farrah Boutique

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Lauren Abunassar

Al-Bustan News reports on Philadelphia’s La Farrah Boutique, a dress shop in Philadelphia's Winchester Park neighborhood, which sells traditional Palestinian dresses decorated with embroidery, or tatreez. Owner Nadeen Shnawer, a mother of four, talks to Al-Bustan about her shop and the significance of the dresses (or thobes, in Arabic) for Palestinians and for herself as a Palestinian American. (Produced by Lauren Abunassar for Al-Bustan News, 2024)

Lauren Abunassar is a Palestinian American writer and journalist. A Media Fellow at Al-Bustan News, she holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MA in journalism from NYU. Her first book Coriolis was published as winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.

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