With the Legislative Assembly of Ontario’s keffiyeh ban now into its second ... is synonymous with militant Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat adopted the accessory as his personal emblem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

With Yasser Arafat never to wind the famous keffiyeh around his head again, some might say he had lost his lucky scarf. Certainly, the life which ended on 11 November was only the last of nine - at ...

(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 ad, which showed a woman wearing a keffiyeh as a scarf ... spurred by former Palestinian National Authority President Yasser Arafat’s frequent wearing of one, according to the National ...

It has also become a problem for those wearing it ... The keffiyeh has long been a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, exemplified by the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, who was rarely photographed ...

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 ...