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Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus ...
Pope Francis made a plea for peace while unveiling a nativity featuring baby Jesus nestled in a keffiyeh in Vatican City on Saturday.. The pontiff declared “Enough wars, enough violence ...
The traditional scarf, worn across many parts of the Middle East, has come to be identified in particular as a symbol of Palestinian identity and resistance.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Kufiyyeh Yemeni man wearing a keffiyeh in turban-style and a Yemeni shawl on his shoulder The keffiyeh or kufiyyeh, also known in Arabic as a hattah (حَطَّة, ḥaṭṭa), is a traditional headdress worn by men from parts of the Middle East. It is fashioned from a square scarf, and is usually ...
The first paragraph of the *Varieties and Variations* section doesn't cite any sources. In Return to the Marshes (1977), Gavin Young mentions a blue keffiyeh worn by some of the Marsh Arabs in Iraq. As the Keffiyeh article in its present stage doesn't seem to be aware of the existence of this variety of keffiye, I'm incorporating the Gavin ...
The Infant Jesus of Mechelen (French: l'Enfant Jésus de Malines) is an unadorned 16th-century wooden image depicting the Child Jesus holding a globus cruciger and imparting a blessing. It is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris , as a typical representative of a type of image produced in considerable numbers in 16th-century Mechelen (Malines ...
Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was born. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times ...
Brown cloak, blue robe, feathered hat, basket, staff, water gourde, vase with flowers at feet Holy Infant of Atocha , Santo Niño de Atocha , Holy Child of Atocha , Saint Child of Atocha , or Wise Child of Atocha is a Roman Catholic image of the Christ Child popular among the Hispanic cultures of Spain , Latin America and the southwestern ...