{"id":34169,"date":"2019-03-05T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34169"},"modified":"2019-03-05T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:22:12","slug":"a-moroccan-designer-hoping-to-revive-the-art-of-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34169","title":{"rendered":"A Moroccan designer hoping to revive the art of embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"78\">\n<p><strong>Sale, Morocco<\/strong> &#8211; Fadila el Gadi, a Moroccan designer, runs an institute that teaches underprivileged children the art of embroidery.<\/p>\n<p>She established the school to save embroidery &#8211; a part of Morocco&#8217;s culture &#8211; from extinction.<\/p>\n<p>El Gadi had a lifelong love for the art of embroidery and, after becoming a fashion designer, realised she needed to act fast if she wanted to see more of that art.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Opening a school that teaches embroidery was not only my dream but also a necessity given how this art is dying,&#8221; Gadi told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>The children spread across the room in the centre just outside the capital Rabat are either dropouts or have never been to school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This not only helps conserve the tradition but also gives these kids hope for the future because otherwise they had nothing to look forward to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video by: Faras Ghani<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sale, Morocco &#8211; Fadila el Gadi, a Moroccan designer, runs an institute that teaches underprivileged children the art of embroidery. She established the school to save embroidery &#8211; a part of Morocco&#8217;s culture &#8211; from extinction. El Gadi had a lifelong love for the art of embroidery and, after becoming a fashion designer, realised she&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}