kuffiyah
Kuffiyah-Spotting: Dunkin’ Zionuts
Wonkette reports that a new Dunkin’ Donuts ad with Rachael Ray sporting a kuffiyeh is pissing off various Zionuts. Though most Americans see the traditional Arab scarf as a harmless, trendy accessory, Palinuts, like myself, see it as a symbol of cultural heritage and political resistance (and also partisanship). Zionuts claim it is a terrorist [...]
Palestine Still Too Hot for (Sub)Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters, that great supplier of post-adolescent, hipster-in-training, wares has once again alienated supporters of Israel. One of its t-shirts, which was featured on a previous KABOBpost, features young, apparently, Palestinian youth with Kaleshnikovs and kuffiyehs, the Palestinian flag and the word “victimized” written in a bad 1980sesque graf font. After another campaign, similar to [...]
Kuffiyah Kraze Spotting: In My Iris
A poem inspired by the sight a red and black kuffiyahs hanging underneath a “10 minute Cellphone Charge Service” in a tourist’s haven on 6th avenue in between 15th and 14th street: What is the power in a cultural symbol?Do I honor what it wasWhat it becameOr what it is becoming? I said: what is [...]
Stand Back, Maytha is Big-Time Now
Stand back because you are now a nobody. Our very own Paris Hilton, Maytha, made an audio-version-of-an-appearance on The Wire, an Australian community radio program, to talk about the kuffiyah’s popularity, of which her extensive coverage right here has made her somewhat of an expert. The piece, which you can download, is called “A new [...]
Kuffiyah Kraze and Arabphilia in Ironic T-Shirts: Arabs Steal Che’s Iconic Thunder
Is it finally kool to associate the kuffiyah with palis and other Arabs? To buy a shirt described as an “Armed and Dangerous” look and one that portrays Palestinians as “Victimized”???? I wonder what Stand With US will have to say about this, especially since the shirt is being sold on Urban Outfitters’ website. This [...]
Ever Wondered How to Hit on an Arab Hottie?
Pali-Canadian rapper Arabesque gives you hopeless lads the key lines to get that raqam from a hot habibti on his latest jam, “How to Chop An Arab.” And *gasp*, not only does this A-rab wear kuffiyahs, but he actually waxes on about the phenomenon surrounding the bedouin orginating scarf quite wittyily on a blog on [...]
McCain Steps Up Kuffiyah Kraze Contest
Not to be outdone in the Kuffiyah-spotting contest, yes it could determine the next President, Republican candidate John McCain is now trotting his daughter around in a purple kuffiyah (see the above picture, which “she” — not “they” — posted on “her” — not the “campaign’s” blog). Is it a coincidence that this we found [...]
THIS JUST IN: Kuffiyeh-sporters lurk in Obama crowds
Tarboush tip: Julia
Kuffiyah Kraze: The Islamofashionist Order of the Skull and Bones secret society
Who says the kuffiyah doesn’t have deadly intentions? Those media-controlling, misleading liberal pundits that’s who! The proof of it’s violently evil nature is in its latest mutation: This obnoxiously bright Urban Outfitter-color inspired variant, selling at $49.00 a pop in a too cool for non-hipsters NYC boutique on Spring street in SoHo, legitimizes the fears [...]
Go Quiqui!!!!
[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.)
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