The keffiyeh’s prominence soared notably in the 1970s when Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a Palestinian nationalist movement, adopted and popularized the garment.

I never much liked seeing the keffiyeh worn casually as a fashion statement. But since October 7, the cotton scarf – most closely associated in modern times with Yasser Arafat, terrorist Leila ...

In the 1960s, it became associated with Palestinian nationalism, particularly due to its adoption by leaders like Yasser Arafat. During this era, it represented solidarity and resistance against ...

The keffiyeh can be in various colors like green and red but the black ... the keffiyeh was connected to Palestinian nationalism because it was worn by former Palestinian leaders like Yasser Arafat.

The keffiyeh was, in fact, one of the few constants of Arafat’s notoriously mercurial five decades at the helm of the armed Palestinian resistance. He was rarely photographed without a checkered ...

Yasser Arafat, who served as chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and then president of the Palestinian Authority, was rarely seen without a black and white keffiyeh on his head and ...

Yasser Arafat died 20 years ago this month – November 11, 2004 – at the age of 75. He was born in 1929 in Cairo and was active in activism that led to the founding of the Fatah movement in 1959.

CHANG: Then Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and later president of the Palestinian Authority, emerged in the 1960s. And he always wore a keffiyeh.

Yasser Arafat, who served as chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and then president of the Palestinian Authority, was rarely seen without a black and white keffiyeh on his head and ...

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.