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The keffiyeh or kufiyyeh (Arabic: كُوفِيَّة, romanized: kūfiyya, lit. ' coif '), [ 1 ] also known in Arabic as a hattah ( حَطَّة , ḥaṭṭa ), is a traditional headdress worn by men from parts of the Middle East .
The keffiyeh “says who I am and carries my family’s history with me always,” she told CNN. Ghnaim similarly said the keffiyeh reminds her of her father, while tatreez — traditional ...
The Palestinian version of the keffiyeh The Palestinian keffiyeh is a distinctly patterned black-and-white keffiyeh. White keffiyehs had been traditionally worn by Palestinian peasants and bedouins to protect from the sun, when Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. Its use as a symbol of Palestinian nationalism and resistance dates back to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, which ...
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, three Palestinian college students were shot, two of them while wearing keffiyehs.
An agal (Arabic: عِقَال; also spelled iqal, egal, or igal) is a clothing accessory traditionally worn by Arab men. It is a doubled black cord used to keep a keffiyeh in place on the wearer's head. [1] Agals are traditionally made of goat or camel hair. [2]
A keffiyeh-wrapped representation of Jesus is on display in a creche at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, DC. wearestmarks/Instagram
Over time, the Keffiyeh evolved into a symbol of Arab masculinity and status, with the Keffiyeh seen as a crown, meant to symbolize Muslim superiority. The right of wearing the Keffiyeh was reserved exclusively for Arabs, and for much of the mid-eastern Jewish population the practice of wearing a Keffiyeh was forbidden.
La'eeb, the mascot. Laʼeeb (Arabic: لعيب, romanized: Laʿīb) was the official mascot of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, [1] which was held in Qatar. [2] The name means "super-skilled player" in Arabic, [3] and is a representation of the popular men's headdress keffiyeh, used in many parts of the Arab world. [4]