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Munayyer, Hanan Karaman

Hanan Karaman Munayyer, a Palestinian-American, is co-founder and president of the Palestinian Heritage Foundation; she is the author of Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution, published in 2011 by Interlink and awarded Book of the Year by Foreword Reviews; she has researched and lectured on Palestinian textile arts for over twenty years; she is also a retired molecular biologist who worked in pharmaceutical research for more than three decades