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PUT YOUR $$$ to work supporting Palestine-based businesses today
PUT YOUR $$$ to work supporting Palestine-based businesses today
Hand-made Clothing and Accessories:
Hand-made Clothing and Accessories:
The last original Palestinian Keffiyeh made in Palestine since 1961 by Herbawi family in Al Khalil (Hebron). The small family-run factory persists despite facing challenges from Free Trade Agreements signed during the Oslo Accords, to logistical limitations by the occupation through checkpoints, export limitations and other roadblocks.
An intersectional feminist & political fashion collective out of Palestine. Nöl manufactures fashionable apparel and accessories with small family-run businesses and women’s cooperatives across the West Bank and Gaza.
A slow-fashion streetwear brand and community originating in Gaza, Palestine. Anat designs and creates gender-neutral denim jackets with hand-sewn Palestinian embroidery, Tatreez, in a conscious, ethical and sustainable manner.
A social enterprise that produces high quality, modern clothing inspired by the tradition of Palestinian embroidery. Made in Palestine, hand-embroidered by women in the West Bank.
The Taita (the grandmother) will also appear in several pop-up shops and markets around the world.
BFTA is a non profit NGO established in 2009, working to spread fair trade practices in Palestine, and linking Palestinian producers to global fair trade markets, it is part of the World Fair Trade Organization. It supports 53 family-owned olive wood workshops, ceramics and blown-glass factories, 50 women’s cooperatives and groups working with embroidery, recycled glass, basket weaving and jewelry making, and 5 disabled groups making felt wool products and recycled cards.
A Palestinian non-profit fair trade cooperative under the Idna Cooperative Association for Embroidery and Handicrafts. Established in 2005, today 150 women produce the items, coming from all over Al Khalil district from 8 cities and villages. Beyond generating necessary income to families, Women in Hebron sees handicrafts-making as an act of community-strengthening, honoring women and a means to show sumud; steadfastness in the face of the occupation of Palestine.
A local artisanal boutique concept store in Yafa (Jaffa) featuring handmade housewares, textiles, and other curated contemporary items from Palestine and the Arab world. Through sustainable local partnerships with designers, makers and craftsmen and women, Hilweh sheds light on forgotten stories through beautiful objects while supporting powerful, creative practices.
A marketplace of fair trade Palestinian handicrafts by over 25 talented artisans, cooperatives & designers.In Palestine, women artisans are often the sole providers of their families. Supporting this storefront helps organizations such as the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, who create stunning pieces to support a deaf school in Gaza. For every other penny, Handmade Palestine plant trees as Mashjar Juthor, an eco project on 2.5 acres of publicly accessible land where native trees are protected and taught to the local communities.
a Jerusalem-based non-profit fair trade organization that supports marginalized women and communities in Palestinan communities all over occupied Palestine through traditional artisanal crafts. Started in 1988 during the first Intifada from a modest craft shop in St. Andrews Guest House, today Sunbula works with 25 local artisan groups, giving back around $180,000 to marginalized communities in 2019.
An international industry leader in the manufacturing of “Old World Style” as well as modern style leather sandals with over 50 years of experience, the company is a time honored family business, founded by grandparents of the current owners. Using fine materials imported from Italy and Germany, Camel Sandals are hypoallergenic and have been tested and guaranteed to ensure that they can be worn on even the most sensitive of feet. All sandals are handmade, using only two materials: 100% genuine leather for the uppers and the soles are Polyurethane (PU).
A Palestinian women’s wear & jewelry designer, all handmade in Bethlehem. She mixes textures from the rich history and fashion of the region with elements from all over the world. A new line of accessories is the magnificent parallel wood to complement her women’s wear line entitled Olive Wood by Nadya Hazbunova.
Artisanal Food Items:
Artisanal Food Items:
Founded on preserving our human heritage of nurturing the land to provide a sustainable food source for centuries to come. Working with over 2,000 families working small farms in 52 villages across Palestine to continue the tradition of producing delicious, nutrient-dense food. Using sustainable, regenerative agricultural practices, wild and ancient plant varieties to produce delectable, wholesome food.
Playgrounds for Palestine (olive oil)
This project is an expression of solidarity with the plight of Palestinian children. an affirmation of their right to childhood and a minimal recognition of their humanity; an act of love. A non-profit organization established in 2001 by Susan Abulhawa as a measure to uphold the Right to Play, where donations are collected and proceeds from selling Palestinian olive oil are used to build playground sites for children, so far 39 playgrounds for 36,070 happy children have been constructed.
Started in 2011 to support poor Palestinian farmers who were struggling to sell their olive oil at a fair price by providing state-of-the art facilities and helping them enter the global market. Working with family farmers who have been working the land for generations, using rain-water and sustainable growing methods, this organization puts farmers first with transparent and fair business ethics. Al Ard offers gift boxes, Zaatar, Tahini, Black Seed, grains, dates, pickles, chili sauce, olive oil soap, herbs and spices and much more.
Home Decor, Embroidery, Books and More:
Home Decor, Embroidery, Books and More:
Educational Bookshop Jerusalem
Born in 1984, a bookstore focusing on Middle Eastern culture and the Palestinian struggle for liberation and justice. EB’s book collection includes a selection of Arabic literature, guidebooks, dictionaries and Arabic teaching books. It also carries all kinds of stationery and office supplies; maps; local and foreign magazines & newspapers; as well as an audio-visual selection of DVDs and music. The bookshop constantly organizes book launches, talks, film screening and other culture activities.
PACE Ceramics, Embroidery, Baskets
A Palestinian NGO founded in 1996 with a mission to protect and promote Palestinian cultural heritage through education, preservation work, research, and exchange programs. PACE works in Palestinian rural areas especially, protecting the environment and natural resources, by organizing public awareness campaigns, delivering lectures, organizing tours and other cultural programs including heritage education and preservation. Working with youth, women, students, educators, international organizations and student exchange programs.
Established in Bethlehem in 1991, this center provides in-home employment for over a hundred women living in refugee camps and small villages within the area. Some of these products include cross-stiching, couching with silf and metallic cords, embroidery of clothing and home articles. The Center consists of a traditional living room, a furnished Bedouin tent, library, exhibition space for traditional items and a gift shop. The center hosts various events and accommodates up to 150 visitors.
Palestine’s online destination guide, offering visitors tools and information to help plan and book trips to visit Palestine. The website offers an events listing, city guides, tours and practical information. The gift shop offers a variety of products, from self-care products (bath, beauty and wellness), books and stationery, holiday gifts, artwork, toys for kids, home decor, kitchen and dining goods, and much more.
Armenian Handmade Ceramics Jerusalem
A hand-painted ceramic tile and pottery studio and shop since 1922 run by the Balian family of Jerusalem, producing Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem. Destroyed in the 1967 Naksa, which the Balian family reconstructed again. Some of the studio’s pieces were featured in the Smithsonian museum, The Armenian Library and Museum of America in Boston, and at the Victoria and Albert museum in London.
A store selling unique arts right from the city of Hebron in Palestine. Motivated to honor and guard Palestinian crafts-making, Hebron Arts’ aim is to spread the message on the unique heritage of handicrafts-making in Hebron, an art that has been losing ground due to globalization, the occupation and other limitations. With a focus on Herbawi Keffiyehs, glass arts for home decor, like vases and pitchers, hand-painted ceramic household items like bowls, mugs, plates, ashtrays, candle holders and more. The store is family-run by al Tamimi and Al Natshey families.
Middle East Children’s Alliance (Shop Palestine)
Founded in 1988 at the beginning of the Intifada, Barbara Lubin and Howard Levine started MECA to offset some of the damage done by the US-funded occupation while helping Palestinians. For the first two years, MECA supported community food cooperatives, held educational advocacy events, organized demonstrations to end US support for the occupation, sent warm winter clothes and baby formula to Palestinians. Working with the youth in Dheisheh Refugee Camp, MECA supported a women’s embroidery collective, computer center and many educational workships on health and nutrition. MECA sent a dabke dance troupe of 20 children to tour the US, telling their stories and raising funds that were used to build a four-story guest-house with a restaurant, computer center, multipurpose hall, and five-story women’s building which houses a kindergarten, children’s library and mental health clinic. In 2002, occupation forces invaded the Dheisheh Camp and destroyed most of what was inside the center. MECA worked with other partners to rebuild the center.
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