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11 Citation This is terribly exciting. A group called The Kufiyeh Project has been set up to promote the kufiya as a Palestinian symbol and, more important to my mind, to promote the sale of Palestinian kufiyas (now made only at the Hirbawi factory, Hebron). This is how the project describes itself. Please check out the group's website , order kufiyas ($12, a dozen for $120), sell kufiyas, involve yourselves in the project. The Kufiyeh Project was conceived by concerned activists from New Orleans Palest, technorati.com
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Pope Benedict Receives Palestinians, Gets A Kaffiyeh 1 Citation Palestinian worshippers gift Pope Benedict with kaffiyeh reports that Palestinian Catholics met with Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday at the Vatican and presented him with another form of head gear - the kaffiyeh. At the end of the service, two youths from the group were brought to the pope and draped the black-and-white checkered scarf on his shoulders. Benedict chatted briefly with them while wearing the scarf, which an aide later removed. Advertisement, technorati.com
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Egypt, April 6, Political Uses of Kufiya 1 Citation Just in case you were in any doubt whether or not the kufiya still maintained some political meaning, check out these images. They are from a report on al-Jazeera English about the April 6 pro-democracy movement and the role of bloggers in this struggle. It features an interview with my friend Gamal Eid, an Egyptian lawyer who is involved in the legal defence of the pro-democracy bloggers, and who serves as the Executive Director of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information . The photos a, technorati.com
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Misc. #84.07: Edible Undies in Syria; 5% Fez; 'Democracy Now' Kufiya; Leila K 1 Citation Continuing to purge the desktop: 1. I just came across this article , "Edible Undies in the Muslim World," at Salon.com, originally published in Der Spiegel. The title is misleading, it's all about Syria's lingerie industry, which exports elsewhere in the Arab world. It's the "latest thing," Abdullah Hayek says, holding the garment up. It's an almost nonexistent bra and thong, which consists of strings and a tiny triangle. It's made, not of fabric, but of sugar fondant, which has been rol, technorati.com
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Leather Keffiyeh from Designer Natalia Brilli 1 Citation This is really wild, a leather kufiya, from Belgian designer Natalia Brilli , available from the new online shopping site Studiohomme, devoted to men's fashion. Only ?546.00. What is interesting about this item, other than the materials and the price, is that it is marketed as a Keffiyeh . (More views of the item, and enlargements, here .) Here's what Hyphen has to say about Studiohomme: Officially launched on February 19th, 2009 this bilingual (English-French) e-commerce site targets, technorati.com
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Postscript on Sex and the City 1 Citation My friend Nadine suggested that if I wrote an article on the previous post, Kufiyaspotting #47, that I give it the title: "The Kufiyyah Tank Top: Eros & (A)politics in Sex and the City ." I really like the title, and it brings up something that I was thinking about after I put up the post: how completely devoid SATC is of political discussion, and how stark the juxtaposition is in the scene referred to in the previous post: between discussion of men, and fashion, and relationships (the s, technorati.com
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1 Citation A sort of update about The Roots, house band for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." The promotional material produced just prior to the show's opening, which featured the band, showed the Roots' drummer ?uestlove garbed in kufiya. I froze a frame on my computer, and shot this shot. Check out this review of The Roots' first week with Fallon. It says, among other things, "the greatest revelation of the first week of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon"...was that it's wholly plausible that the Roots a, technorati.com
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Update on Kufiyaspotting #44: "Taking the Stage" 1 Citation I've noticed that MTV keeps fooling with the un/availability of the trailer for "Taking the Stage" ( Kufiyaspotting #44 ). So here are a couple of shots of Shaakira, who is the most prominent kufiya wearer in the trailer, in kufiya. They're taken from other footage, including this one ., technorati.com
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Kufiyaspotting #47: Sex and the City 1 Citation Rema, who I met after the MESA panel where I presented my paper on kufiyas, told me about a Sex and the City kufiya episode. Finally, and thanks to Nadine, I have got hold of the DVD. It's from Season Four, Episode 17 ("A 'Vogue' Idea"). It's the episode where Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) attempts to write an article for Vogue (the "Mecca" for fashion writers, she calls it), but runs up against the bitchy editor, Enid, played by Candace Bergen. You remember it. It's always a treat to see Ca, technorati.com
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"P.H.A.T.W.A." by Narcysist (kufiya & Abu Ghrayb content) 1 Citation Check out this remarkable video from the Iraqi-Canadian rapper Narcysist. It's about the kind of everyday harassment that Arabs and Muslims receive when they attempt to travel, especially when they cross borders. It is quite brilliant. And highly amusing. Narcysist gets nabbed for questioning at the airport, wearing a t-shirt that says, "Same Shit, Different Saddam." Then we see a shot of Narcysist's Afro-Canadian sidekick, and a guy with a kufiya around his neck, whose t-shirt reads, "Same, technorati.com
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