Keffiyeh

Go Quiqui!!!!

By Emily ⋅ February 28, 2008 ⋅ 25 comments

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SnptBxODEU] This is the hottest kuffiyehspotting I’ve seen in a looooooooong time. Click here to see images of some not-so-hot kuffiyehspottings. (The kid with the flag, the table, and the close-up of eyes excluded.)

Keffiyeh infiltrates our nation’s youth

By QuiQui ⋅ February 13, 2008 ⋅ 43 comments

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYj8XSKN8RM] Related:Modern Chronology of the Kuffiyah KrazeKAFFIYA KRAZE: You May Be ___ If Your Kuffiya Is ___

Kuffiya Kraze: The Fashion Industrial Complex Is Behind The Assasination Of Yasser Arafat

By Fayyad ⋅ August 14, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Discussion of who killed former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has surfaced again this month, following accusations made by senior Hamas members and a former aide to the Palestinian leader that Israel poisoned him. Bassam Abusharif is asking former French president Jacques Chirac to reveal the truth behind the passing of Arafat, who spent his last [...]

KUFFIYA KRAZE: You May Be ___ If Your Kuffiya Is

By Fayyad ⋅ August 6, 2007 ⋅ 42 comments

You may be Fatah, if your Kuffiya is black and white. Socialist/Marxist (PFLP/DFLP) if your Kuffiya is red. Hamas, if your Kuffiya is red. Yemeni, if your Kuffiya is blue or green. Shot by the Israelis, if your Kuffiya is blood-soaked. Annoying as hell, if your Kuffiya is yellow with smiley faces on it. Disoriented, [...]

KUFFIYAH KRAZE UPDATE: When a shekel’s a shekel

By QuiQui ⋅ August 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recently spotted at a mall in West Jerusalem in a Zara department store was none other than a mannequin draped in — you guessed it — a kaffiyeh. (Or: keffiyah, keffiyeh, kufiyah, kaffiya, kafiya, gutra, hatta, shemagh…) (Or, for our friends hailing from the Department of I Know a Terrorist When My Government Tells Me [...]

Modern Chronology of the Keffiyah Kraze

By admin ⋅ July 16, 2007 ⋅ 40 comments

By QuiQui 1906-1910 While conducting thesis fieldwork in Syria and Palestine, T.E. Lawrence discovers keffiyahs to be useful both for keeping out the cold and for keeping out the heat. 1921 Rudolph Valentino and his kuffiya star in silent film, The Sheik. 1926 Kufiya and Valentino reunited for The Son of the Sheik. Still no [...]

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