Last week, three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont were wearing black ... to the land. The keffiyeh’s prominence soared notably in the 1970s when Yasser Arafat, leader of the ...

GHNAIM: You know, Yasser Arafat was known to fold the keffiyeh into the shape of historic Palestine before wearing it on his head. So we have a really beautiful symbolism in that, in the way that ...

But he was wearing a scarf that's become synonymous ... particularly due to its adoption by leaders like Yasser Arafat. During this era, it represented solidarity and resistance against 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 ...

(photo credit: AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS) Yasser Arafat died 20 years ago this ... made Arafat into a paramilitary “icon” wearing sunglasses and a keffiyeh, it was the end of the Cold War that ...

The scarf was first worn as an act of resistance to represent Arab nationalism in the 1930s during the Arab Revolt against British colonial rule and gained further popularity when Arafat wore it ...

"While we understand that the intention behind wearing ... The keffiyeh has long been a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, exemplified by the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, who was rarely ...

“My fondest memories are in making this keffiyeh, and wearing it with pride and joy for my beautiful people.” Yasser Arafat, who served as chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization ...

Yasser Arafat, who was the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, helped popularize the keffiyeh around the world by almost always wearing one in public.