http://www.joannabarakatart.com/new-index daily 0.75 2019-09-19 http://www.joannabarakatart.com/home daily 1.0 2018-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1625117678511-KZWLC7YGRL68SAEAYK5T/20210623_Joanna_Reshoot_MR_001.jpg Joanna Barakat Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1522852214230-M95IMPRDU2TLWARF9IF5/IMG_1676+3.JPG Joanna Barakat Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1522852259961-6ZV9TCKYLSP7ZJD7EFLF/IMG_1762+4.JPG Joanna Barakat Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1522852079917-C7ZZGMUFS2Y91J8HS3HQ/IMG_1676+3.JPG Joanna Barakat Home http://www.joannabarakatart.com/event-calendar-artesia daily 0.75 2025-05-09 http://www.joannabarakatart.com/event-calendar-artesia/2016/5/13/lorem-ipsum-1-dwdh2 monthly 0.5 2016-08-26 http://www.joannabarakatart.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2026-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1634804397604-Q5E2MQH4Z401XIQ1J8HT/Amulet Embroidery - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1571076990835-UKRFU706X1KLGC05E6NU/IMG_0350.jpg Embroidery THE WATER SPRING Cotton thread on linen (31x31 cm) As Israelis splash around in their swimming pools, irrigate their farms, and boast about making the desert bloom, access to water for Palestinians is a full-blown crisis with Israel controlling and restricting all the water and water-related infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza. In Gaza, ninety to ninety-five percent of water is contaminated and unfit for human consumption. With ninety percent of the West Bank Aquifer diverted to Israel, settlers in the West Bank consume four times the amount of water as Palestinians (consuming less than the World Health Organization’s daily minimum recommendation). Palestinians have restricted access to the remaining ten percent, intentionally destroying Palestinian agriculture and economy. This piece describes Palestine's water crisis using the same medium and symbolic language of Palestinian embroidery worn by Palestinian farmer and villager women to express their localized identities and personal stories. The disappearing Palestinian embroidery motifs of regional plants, barbed wire, and water spring represent the devastating effect on agriculture in the West Bank caused by the forced separation and restriction to clean and safe water sources. Here is a peek into the near and ominous future where Israel continues to deny Palestinians their human right to water for agriculture and domestic use, adding climate refugees to the pre-existing Palestinian refugee crisis while further aiding in the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1559189203155-8SL7EPFIIRZCK6FEH39R/Entanglement.JPG Embroidery ENTANGLEMENT Cotton thread on cotton fabric (15 x 30 cm) The theory of quantum entanglement states that even if two particles are physically separated, they can still be connected. Karmic entanglement also speaks of the connection, regardless of space or time, between individuals, an individual to a group of people, or an individual to a belief. In this piece, traditional rules of the symbolic language of Palestinian embroidery are broken and a new translation of the motif is formulated. By understanding entanglement in visual or symbolic terms, an opportunity is created to consider the connecting force or frequency and recognise it as love. Threads emerge from and connect to the four squares centred in each motif, resembling the four chambers of the heart, removing the illusion of separateness while leaving behind the ultimate essence of oneness. Exhibited in the Made In Tashkeel exhibition at Tashkeel in Dubai, 2019. https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/tashkeel-s-summer-exhibition-celebrating-an-incredible-decade-of-achievement-1.878469 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1522926002061-P48F6Y896NBARCH0FI2P/UDHRART5.png Embroidery ARTICLE 5 mixed media on embroidery fabric “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” This is my block in the UDHR Quilt project led by Tal Fitzpatrick and Stephanie Dunlap to celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and promote awareness of violations happening all over the world. On my block of the quilt, I have hand embroidered the traditional Palestinian motif of the star of Bethlehem across the sky. Article 5 is stenciled on the separation wall representing the significance of graffiti and street art as a tool of communication in the public sphere in Palestine. More traditional Palestinian embroidery, such as Cyprus trees and ‘the walls of Jerusalem’ motifs run along the bottom of the panel under the wall representing the Palestinian land. Although Israel fails to comply with most of the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human rights, the violation of Article 5 is a succinct summation of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people on their native land since 1948. It is included as a block on one of the four quilts of the “The #UDHRquilt Project: Craftivism, Quilts & Human Rights” in the Museum of Australian Democracy’s permanent collection. https://quilts.moadoph.gov.au http://talfitzpatrick.com/udhr-craftivism-project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1625117507124-ILACPV413LE6J7IV61G5/20210614_JoannaArt_MR_007.jpg Embroidery THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME mixed media on embroidery fabric The right of return home to Palestine is a shared dream of the Palestinian diaspora collective. Here, the Palestinian woman wearing a traditional embroidered dress and red shoes references Dorothy in ruby red slippers from The Wizard of Oz returning home to Kansas after the catastrophe of the tornado and her displacement in Oz. The Palestinian house motif is hand-embroidered, intentionally left empty, creates the yellow brick road in the background that our Dorothy follows with blind faith and hope for returning home. http://www.joannabarakatart.com/about daily 0.75 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57338c9c04426238cff162e3/1463508935827-CIYROC4NTX1KPYV7BK8U/Aro+Ha_0986.jpg Bio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/27959ace-cf8f-45b8-a314-314e5d6393d3/Joanna+Barakat+.png Bio - Make it stand out Photo of Joanna Barakat by Sueraya Shaheen http://www.joannabarakatart.com/workshops daily 0.75 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1589455697841-U1WYLS7T3IR19CLINDJ7/Dina+and+Jo.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1589455081737-4ZQ048IQOPJ9MQIIR38L/workshop421.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1537442432570-DLOAHM55EM7LYMZT52WX/The+Tatreez+Circle.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1537442389748-MZAXE9TCZXZ9RMT7X4LH/pic+3.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops At Urbanist, Dubai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1537442411945-0YAN656OA3SU2126EZ1N/pic+4.jpg The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1537442477861-XELOJCZOTHWR5K6RN5VU/rosette+and+knafa.png The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1537442643357-4ZPVZ3CI5H3D5S4ZHHYG/IMG_5455.jpg The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1537442645917-G44W27MOYRKNY453IFK1/5216cc36-5cdb-4a6a-a0c0-9513a87ceb64.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1538311088916-P5534L190CTVTQ3TE6JQ/DSC_1854.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1538311346627-SQLEQHDE4GK1E9QJ0H5S/DSC_1847.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1538311603301-0PH1X0KUQGL7TL4QP73K/DSC_1860.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1540097330842-QEF6S4KKGOJYSM848G8G/eb5efb4c-33db-4e80-9d7e-af45023ba6b5.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1540097322846-2FV88ENQ0XI8UPKDQ8T2/IMG_6007.jpg The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1542035797863-I1IPFLMK6Z5RQLIEQVZH/IMG_6387.jpg The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1542034854267-UI3WOSLEX09DCSUG544Y/IMG_6454.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1544594747827-1XVJQ7HK4PORIF7JPOF0/7b6ae25b-fe16-4bd4-adff-9b1b350ebf8d.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1544594800342-X07CBXIQQ880AM0YBZVT/IMG_7129.jpg The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1544594816627-NHKMZPAJC3DFL80WQLFY/IMG_7131.jpg The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1544595057000-VPN21YH0OV6PDLWVQE6E/IMG_7150.jpg The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1544594926355-QGQ29GFZ9LIQWDN0ZUX6/b81f3b3c-cae1-49ef-9a81-6374069dc019.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1544595063900-LQ3EA0VT91QNM3J12W4Q/f2da4e12-62ee-4cf4-b94d-76c203da3283.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1559191557449-DV12SAOUC3LGJ2QSGGWJ/IMG_1823+4.JPG The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1559191080881-F2Q4X4JYCVNZU7OFL2DU/AWN+group+photo.jpg The Tatreez Circle and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1559190484294-4IW7ZGU9SDG4A6XKE3RZ/IMG_2073.jpg The Tatreez Circle and Workshops http://www.joannabarakatart.com/mother daily 0.75 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1a465231-3d1f-46e8-a6a8-7c023ec8b386/Joanna+Barakat+-+Zoo+Garden+-+Cairo+.jpg Paintings and Mixed Media - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1625116995410-F6MF8DGONIAYTKMJC22E/20210614_JoannaArt_MR_015.jpg Paintings and Mixed Media - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1634804235839-FYWKTTM5S7V3LR8JRJ75/20210614_JoannaArt_MR_014.jpg Paintings and Mixed Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1634803764897-EXJ4TEA8OKGEP8XR81ZM/20210623_Joanna_Reshoot_MR_001.jpg Paintings and Mixed Media - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/1522854188421-Z9NB2Z6TYZP1I2TB3KWU/AmericanNakba.JPG Paintings and Mixed Media - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.joannabarakatart.com/narrative-threads daily 0.75 2025-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/3b093f07-23a7-4f9a-b18c-d4c9d9d2db1e/IMG_4550.jpg Narrative Threads - Order here For centuries, Palestinian women wrote the stories of their lives and land with a needle and thread. Appreciation for their embroidery, or tatreez, inspired artists who embraced and reinterpreted it visually and conceptually. They transformed Palestinian embroidery and images of the women wearing it into a symbol of Palestinian identity, steadfastness and resistance. In Narrative Threads, Joanna Barakat documents contemporary artists’ vital role in shaping and maintaining the symbolism around Palestinian embroidery and its continued impact. She brings together the work of twenty-four established and emerging artists who incorporate its motifs and symbolism across various media – from painting, sculpture and textile, to film, photography and street art. While some artists use traditional imagery to celebrate and preserve Palestinian identity, others reimagine this to express ideas about time, space and memory while challenging colonial and Orientalist constructs. Featuring more than 200 striking illustrations as well as insightful essays by leading art historians Dr Tina Sherwell, Wafa Ghnaim and Rachel Dedman, Narrative Threads celebrates the immense beauty and significance of Palestinian embroidery in contemporary art. It reveals its power as a visual language that recounts the past, connects us to the present and envisions a different, hopeful future. Artwork on cover by Samar Hejazi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/13b146a7-b415-4800-b6ea-cbd15a367cbb/2.png Narrative Threads - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.joannabarakatart.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac49bd1af2096c3c6a9a2ae/5d08c718-1a1a-473e-89f4-403c4bbc70d6/IMG_0872.JPG LIKE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.