Fashioning the United Arab Emirates with Dr. Reem El Mutwalli, Part I

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dr. Reem El Mutwalli joins us to discuss her book Sultani Traditions Renewed: Changes in Women’s Traditional Dress in the UAE during the reign of Shaikh Zayid Al Nahyan, 1966-2004. Dr. Reem is the founder of The Zay Initiative, the first fashion collection dedicated exclusively to dress from across the Arab world. Further Reading and Listening: Dr. Reem's first Dressed interview can be found here https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-dressed-the-history-of-fas-29000690/episode/the-art-of-arab-dress-with-73003929/ More on the Sultani book: https://sultanibook.com Dr. Reem's website: https://reemelmutwalli.com The Zay Initiative: https://thezay.org Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dress the history of fashion is a production of iHeartRadio.
0:23.2	With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.
0:27.2	Every day, we all get dressed.
0:29.2	Welcome to Dress the history of fashion.
0:31.8	A podcast or re-explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.
0:35.5	We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan.
0:38.8	And Cassidy Zachary.
0:41.2	Dress listeners, today we are so pleased to welcome back to the show Dr.
0:44.9	Reem Al-Mattuali for a two-part conversation on
0:48.8	Fashions of the United Arab Emirates.
0:51.4	And Dr. Reem, you may remember, came on last season.
0:54.2	She came on to discuss her wonderful non-profit organization,
0:57.2	The Zay Initiative, which is dedicated to advancing the preservation
1:00.8	of Arab cultural heritage.
1:02.4	And they do that through the collection,
1:04.0	documentation, and digital archiving of historical attire.
1:07.7	And they also document the myriad of history sewn into these very garments.
1:11.6	It's such a wonderful organization.
1:13.5	It has a really beautiful goal of empowering and sustaining global
1:16.5	cross-cultural dialogue to inspire creative minds.
1:19.4	Yeah. And our listeners might remember that The Zay Initiative
1:22.5	represents the first fashion history archive
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