Twelve years after Yasser Arafat died under mysterious circumstances ... the black and white scarf Arafat popularized. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the Arab League, left, with ...

the chequered black and white scarf that became Arafat's trademark headgear. Yasser Hirbawi stands in his textile factory in Hebron Today, though, in what many see as a metaphor for the failing ...

During the 1960s, there was another resurgence in the keffiyeh as political symbol, with the scarf worn by both men and women. Yasser Arafat, who served for decades as the chairman of the ...

It was most famously worn by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whose carefully-styled ... between 1987 and 1993, the scarf was the garb of choice for the thousands of Palestinians who ...

(The Conversation) — The keffiyeh’s prominence soared in the 1970s when Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian ... a distinctive checkered scarf, during protests. Indeed, several Palestinian ...

But since October 7, the cotton scarf – most closely associated in modern times with Yasser Arafat, terrorist Leila Khaled and the violent Palestinian “resistance movement” – has really ...

the black-and-white fishnet pattern scarf favoured by protesters is synonymous with militant Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat adopted the accessory as his personal emblem while scaling the ...

On November 11, 2004, a thunderbolt announcement on all major networks: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat had died in Paris – poisoned with polonium-210, according to an investigation by Al Jazeera and ...