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Selling Greens, Arab Quarter

Selling Greens, Arab Quarter
2001, woodcut handprinted on Sekishu natural
edition of 15, 7 x 3 inches (image)
$125 (unmatted), $150 (matted)

In public, Palestinian women wear hijab, modestly covering head and limbs in much the same way as ultra-Orthodox Jewish wives in West Jerusalem. A Palestinian woman from the countryside may also wear the elaborately embroidered thoub, whose color and pattern identify her village.

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