Nakba #45 - Widad Kawar

1937 The family settled in Bayt Lahm. I started at a new boarding school, this time in Ramallah. It was run by the Quakers, and I felt very much at home there. In Ramallah, all women wore beautifully embroidered dresses.

If they carried a bag, it too was embroidered; on their heads they wore an embroidered scarf. The teachers taught us embroidery, so we learned their patterns, which they had brought with them from the United States.” 1948 “The boarding school in Ramallah distributed our graduation certificates a couple of months early.

Then we were sent home. Everyone was afraid that war would break out when the British left Filastin. People were waiting for something to happen. The Jordanian girls in my class did not know how they would get home.