Rethinking a textile appliqué tradition long associated with male tentmakers in Egypt, Amer masterfully pulls at the threads of cultural dualities—feminine and masculine, craft and art, abstraction and figuration, East and West—with sensitivity and specificity. In A Woman's Voice is Revolution (in Blue), the phrase "A Woman's Voice is Revolution" is spelled out repeatedly in Arabic. A popular slogan deployed during the months of the Arab Spring by female protesters, the phrase is a play on the traditional hadith proverb “A woman’s voice is shameful”. By merely changing a single syllable in the proverb, the entire meaning of the sentence has become one of empowerment and strength.

Amer takes on a traditional Egyptian textile craft in which richly colored appliqué panels were used to decorate the interiors of tents and pavilions and transforms them into abstract grids of monochromatic, geometric patterns, reminiscent of the ubiquitous form of QR codes. And yet, within the seemingly abstract surfaces, Amer has in fact embedded feminist texts.