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KUFFIYA KRAZE: You May Be ___ If Your Kuffiya Is
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
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 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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