Dalia Khayed Hammad is a 20-year-old Palestinian from the Gaza Strip and a digital media student. She reached Spain in June 2025. Her journey with embroidery began at the age of ten, when she learned this authentic art from her aunt, to whom it had been passed down from her grandmother. This experience connected her to an unbroken chain of women creating this cultural heritage. For Dalia, embroidery is more than just a hobby: it is a profound expression of her identity and an authentic form of cultural heritage. It also brings her psychological comfort and joy in her free time. During the war, embroidery became her form of resistance, a silent language through which she expresses her voice and the history of her people to the rest of the world. 

Saja Abdalhadi is a young woman from Tulkarem, Palestine who arrived in Madrid in October 2023. She is currently a refugee in the final stage of her asylum process. She has worked as an Arabic language teacher, also teaching foreigners, as well as in the media, preparing television and radio programs, in addition to proofreading texts. She learned embroidery from her mother, who taught her this skill, which was also her profession in Palestine, where she helped women to make embroidery and start their own projects in this field. Like her mother, she believes that embroidery is a fundamental part of Palestine’s heritage and identity, which the occupation is trying to appropriate. For this reason, embroidery, especially that of traditional Palestinian forms of dress, was registered as such. In her free time, she would work with her mother on embroidery, convinced that with each stitch she was reinforcing her heritage, her identity and her homeland.