Published: 9 October 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
The goal of the project, according to Shukroon, is to bring love “instead of hate.” Once Palestinian women can earn a respectable livelihood, she says “terrorism comes less into the home.”
In the video, produced by the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli military government that oversees the occupation, Shukroon says the idea came to her while leafing through a Time Out Tel Aviv issue dedicated to Ramallah, in which one of the articles was about Palestinian fashion designers and embroiderers.
Shukroon says that the path to designing the shoes was easier than expected. She got a phone number of a shoemaker in Hebron and soon thereafter visited him in his factory, without any army accompaniment.
“The initial meeting in the Hebron factory was a riveting experience,” Shukroon tells me. “I had never visited any of Palestinian Authority areas, I met some incredible people there. I tell my friends that whenever I feel the need to go abroad, I hop over to Hebron. This crazy experience would never have taken place had I not met with those people.”
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Photo: Gal Shukroon (Screen grab from video)
