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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]
Another type of keffiyeh is the shemagh, which is a scarf that is red-and-white, checkered and has tassels. The bigger the tassels, the more important the person. This red-and-white keffiyeh is associated with Jordan and is its national symbol. [10] The shemagh is worn mostly in Jordan and by Bedouin communities. [11] It is made from cotton.
The late President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria, a chieftain of the Fula emirate of Katsina, wearing a crown style kufi.. A kufi or kufi cap is a brimless, short, and rounded cap worn by men in many populations in North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. [1]
Kids are especially encouraged to take part and even have a role at the beginning of Seder, where they ask four questions as a jumping-off point for the retelling of the Exodus. Tetra Images ...
Out of the sham of the cities afar. We’ve come for a time to be just what we are.” Read the full poem at Poetry Foundation. 'The Traveling Onion' by Naomi Shihab Nye “It is right that tears fall
With the introduction of a law in 1964, there was a temporary ban on wearing the traditional turban - local urban Hijazis could no longer wear them and had to instead wear the Saudi national dress that included a Ghutrah or Shemagh instead. [7]
Pheran is a corruption of the Persian word 'perahan' which means cloak. [7] The outfit has been in vogue in Kashmir since before the 15th century. [8]Before the advent of Islamic influence, the people of Kashmir used to wear a loose gown-type leather doublet instead of pheran, as recorded by Hiuen-Tsang.
His poems were published in journals such as The Crisis and Black World, and in anthologies edited by Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Sterling Brown, and Arna Bontemps. [ 2 ] Although his work was largely forgotten in the United States by the 1950s, it was translated into German and Dutch and developed a following in Europe.