The keffiyeh has long been a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, exemplified by the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, who was rarely photographed without one. He folded it in a way that depicted the ...

Wafa Ghnaim, a researcher and curator specializing in the history of Palestinian clothing, told CNN until the 1920s, keffiyehs — also called hattahs or shamaghs — were worn mostly by nomadic ...

A distinctly Palestinian black-and-white chequered piece of cloth, the keffiyeh is described by some as the nation's unofficial flag. Long synonymous with the Palestinian cause, the simple square ...

"To see the mural erased, covered up — it felt like a violation," Professor Hồng-An Trương, whose students worked with ...

The Palestinian keffiyeh evolved out of a common headdress for men across the Middle East. The most common version of the scarf today has the iconic black-and-white checkered pattern that some say ...

ALBAWABA - A poster comparing the Palestinian Keffiyeh to the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) was recently spotted by an individual in Toronto, Canada causing outrag ...

Right after the shooting, social media users began sharing a video of a "witness" who said the gunman shouted "free Palestine" and wore a keffiyeh. Conservative activist Laura Loomer reshared the ...

Yasser Arafat, who served for decades as the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was often pictured wearing the black and white keffiyeh, which further cemented the scarf as a ...

Malhas, who grew up as a second-generation Palestinian in Jordan in the 2000s, told CNN that wearing the black and white keffiyeh could be seen as a sign that he was “ungrateful” to Jordan as ...

Although keffiyehs are worn across the Middle East, in recent decades they have come to be identified in particular as a symbol of Palestinian identity and resistance.