kuffiyah

There was a look of intense gratification on the few square inches of face visible between kuffiyah and beard.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

I stood for an instant, searching desperately for the robe and kuffiyah I had followed in, but they were not in sight — and worse, the guards had decided I did not belong here and were coming out of their station to do something about it.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

He may wear spectacles, darken his skin, change his fez for a kuffiyah, that sort of thing.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

I stood for an instant, searching desperately for the robe and kuffiyah I had followed in, but they were not in sight — and worse, the guards had decided I did not belong here and were coming out of their station to do something about it.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

Had our prisoners hesitated two minutes longer, had we paused to let Holmes resume his robe and kuffiyah, the three men would have been gone.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

He dropped to his heels, tucked back his kuffiyah, and started talking — in English, to my relief.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

I trailed in their wake, stumbling awkwardly down the rock-strewn hillside, trying to keep the bobbing kuffiyah ahead of me in sight.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

“Your long friend in the blue kuffiyah,” he said, and then for some reason he covered his mouth with his hand and let out a giggle.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

There was a look of intense gratification on the few square inches of face visible between kuffiyah and beard.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

Wordlessly, the rest of us settled back into our carpets, Ali with his carving and Holmes taking out pipe and tobacco from the breast of his robe, tucking the ends of his kuffiyah up into the thick black loops of the agahl that held it on his head, and proceeding to fill the pipe and light it with a coal lifted from the fire with the tongs.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999