{"product_id":"golden-threads-paperback","title":"Golden Threads - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAriella A?sha Azoulay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHaitham Haddad\u003c\/b\u003e (Designed by), \u003cb\u003eHagar Ophir\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautifully illustrated tale of traditional crafts and communal power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRachelle is a young girl living in F?s, Morocco in 1920. Surrounded by a warm community of friends, family, and craftspeople--both Jewish and Muslim--Rachelle spends her days playing with other young girls in her neighborhood, trying on her grandmother's amulets, playing jokes on a nosy photographer, and watching her parents as they spin delicate threads made of gold at their jewelry workshop each day. Life in Rachelle's neighborhood, the \u003ci\u003emellah\u003c\/i\u003e, is busy, nourishing, and filled with magic. But rumors of a machine (or is it a monster?) coming from across the sea threaten to change the \u003ci\u003emellah\u003c\/i\u003e and the lives of its craftspeople forever. Banding together with her grandmother, her parents, and the other jewelry makers, Rachelle and four of her friends work together to put a stop to the machine's arrival--but only time will tell if they can save the vibrant world of the \u003ci\u003emellah\u003c\/i\u003e and its beautiful golden threads for good. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGolden Threads\u003c\/i\u003e draws on a series of inspiring historical episodes in F?s, when Jewish and Muslim artisans organized together against the introduction of a new machine that threatened to replace their manual labor and compromise their cherished way of life. A book for both middle grade readers and for adults reading aloud to younger children, \u003ci\u003eGolden Threads\u003c\/i\u003e will take people of all ages on a journey into the multi-faith world of Morocco's craftspeople, inspiring generative conversations about art, labor, community, and technology for years to come.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHagar Ophir\u003c\/b\u003e is a multidisciplinary artist trained as a historian, stage designer, and dancer. Her work establishes history as a space to reimagine and actualize alternative possible presents, moving beyond divisions instituted between tenses, nation-states, and ideologies. Ophir often works collaboratively to create knowledge through art and education projects. Her recent projects have appeared in Berlin in two solo exhibitions, \u003ci\u003eBound with the Living The Archive Room\u003c\/i\u003e (Diffrakt, 2024) and \u003ci\u003eRecalling History Bundled with the Living\u003c\/i\u003e (Soma Art, 2023), and in the work \u003ci\u003eLetter of Demand\u003c\/i\u003e (LABA fellow exhibition, 2023). In 2020, in collaboration with five artists and teachers, Ophir founded mitkollektiv, an intersectional arts education collective, and the art education project Reimagine Jetzt! She co-leads workshops at HKS and Bard College Berlin, and her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eRevista de Hist?ria da Arte\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJerusalem Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Ophir lives in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47312594993401,"sku":"9781961814219","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ieUSxvB0Rz9781961814219.webp?v=1769393492","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/golden-threads-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}