Widad Kamel Kawar is a researcher and expert on Palestinian folk costume. She is the co-author, with Tania Tamari Nasser, of the book “Palestinian Embroidery – The Traditional Peasant Stitch,” published by the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing in Beirut in 1996. Tania Tamari Nasser was born in Jerusalem in 1941 and holds a BA in English Literature and Fine Arts from Beirut University (now LAU). She co-authored the same book with Widad.