With his keffiyeh, aviator sunglasses, and beard stubble, Arafat first received media attention in the 1960s and 1970s, when the PLO was hijacking airplanes and perpetrating terrorist attacks.

It’s hard to imagine that after the horrors of October 7 — murders, rapes, mutilations committed by terrorists wearing the keffiyeh — students today are proudly wearing that same garment as ...

Fashionable militancy is back, for the worse.“And a soul / if it is to know itself / must look / into its own soul: The stranger and the enemy, we’ve seen him in the mirror.” —George ...

Arafat—born and raised in Egypt—adopted the look much later in life as he became a looming figure in politics. His rise to chair of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) popularized the look ...

Arafat arranged his keffiyeh in a unique shape to loosely emulate a map of Palestine, which in his mind stretched from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean Sea. It is unclear if Arafat, who founded ...

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.