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Check out the easy-to-follow instructional video, which will have you looking like this: Here's the vid, if you want to self-transfor...

Huh? really? If you must vote -- but I caution against it -- go here . And no, I did not put this up because Shadia has a kufiya around h...

Kufiya tchotchke , a photo by tsweden on Flickr. Joan sent me this.

The photo is by Tyler Hicks of the New York Times , who accompanied Anthony Shadid (RIP) on his final visit to Syria. The photo gallery it ...

This photo of rapper Jay Electronica accompanied his recent  release , via RCRD.LBL, of the free single, "Suckas." Jay Electron...

Anne de Zogheb in ensemble by Pierre Balmain, Marie Claire, March 1963 Anne de Zogheb was a top international fashion model in the late 5...

See previous post for a somewhat different use of the same image. This one, courtesy socialjusticejesus.tumblr.com .

Robin just informed me about this website, Hipster or Jesus? It solicits your offerings. Its logo is this: I'm no expert on hipsters...

"Demonstrators huddled in alleyways breathing through keffiyehs soaked in lemon juice." This after "Border Police forces di...

I'm sure you've noticed this, the seemingly unstoppable tendency of anyone writing about World Music to compare artists who are rela...

I got this via today's New York Times . This was filmed yesterday in the Halfaya neighborhood of Hama. Apparently this is a regular, mor...

Nubian Empire Ski Club : " Nubians, whose mission is to coax more African-Americans onto skis."

Demonstrators atop post at Tahrir Square, marking 1st anniversary of the launch of  the Egyptian revolution, January 25, 2012 (Jeff J. Mitch...

Today (February 14) marks the first anniversary of the Bahraini uprising. Although crushed by Bahraini security forces, with the support of ...

In this mindblowing article about the US prison system, from n+1 . "In gentrifying sections of Brooklyn, for example, steep drops in...

This photo is from the first published interview with Yaron Cohen/Dana International, published in the newspaper Tel Aviv , on August 14, 1...

The New York Times reports on Sunday's clashes. More walls go up near Interior Ministry. And kufiyas are still in evidence. Moises S...

Source: Egypt Independent .

Kazeboon , a photo by Jonathan Rashad on Flickr. kufiya clad demonstrator checking his smart phone, Feb. 2.

On the 1st anniversary of January 25, the day that the uprising against Mubarak was launched, I posted a piece on Sayyid Darwish and the Egy...