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On the fateful morning, I awoke -- and despite my wife's profound confusion and consternation -- I donned traditional garb of an abaya and kaffiyah, a robe and headdress.
Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010
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On the fateful morning, I awoke -- and despite my wife's profound confusion and consternation -- I donned traditional garb of an abaya and kaffiyah, a robe and headdress.
Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010
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On the fateful morning, I awoke -- and despite my wife's profound confusion and consternation -- I donned traditional garb of an abaya and kaffiyah, a robe and headdress.
Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010
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So I simply continued looking down, as the kaffiyah fell forward and covered my eyes.
Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010
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So I simply continued looking down, as the kaffiyah fell forward and covered my eyes.
Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010
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So I simply continued looking down, as the kaffiyah fell forward and covered my eyes.
Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010
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Hookah cafés entice East Village socialites, fashionistas appropriate the checkered kaffiyah scarf, and Prince sings an ode to a young Arab-American girl.
'How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America' 2008
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If he would quit running to the Right for wet nursing and had any chutzpah cojones, etc. he would be on the next Saturday Night Live show wearing a kaffiyah over his face sporting a Kalashnikov machine gun and wearing a dashiki tunic.
Archive 2008-07-01 Michael Caddell 2008
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Ruby K · January 17th, 2007 at 9:43 am hipsters i see wearing the kaffiyah, when asked about it have been, in my experience, less interested in Palestine davka, and more about solidarity with whoever the U.S. is warring against, hence the recent popularity, not so much before 9/11.
Strangely familiar “Anti-War Scarves” now at an URBN near you! | Jewschool 2007
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First, Zapatero had the effrontery to put a "Palestinian kaffiyah" around his neck when the object in question was handed to him by a student—putting me in mind of the old joke, here paraphrased: "My mother made me a Palestinian."
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
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