Our Kuffieyeh

by Mattia Massolini

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20 April 2009 by الفلسطينية

check out this important initiative below. we need to save our kuffieyeh!



THE KUFIYEH PROJECT LAUNCHED

New Orleans Palestine Solidarity and Palestine Online Store are proud to announce the launch of The Kufiyeh Project. This not-for-profit endeavour aims to promote the kufiyeh as a symbol of resistance and solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, while at the same time saving the only kufiyeh factory in Palestine from shutting down. Income from this project will be rechanneled towards these objectives, under the guidance of an advisory board.

The Kufiyeh Project has just launched its website, which includes some background information on the kufiyah (for example, how it was adopted by the entire Palestinian population in the resistance against British colonialism in 1936, links to news, multimedia, and comedy about the kufiyeh, and a peak at the factory in Hebron.)

Your support is essential for making this project succeed. We are about to place an order with the factory, and hope that you will join us in placing an order. We have set the retail price of the kufiyeh at $12, while a dozen is discounted by $24 (to $120). For orders of 6 dozen or more, the discount is 33%, coming out to $8 a piece, plus the actual cost of shipping and handling, not to exceed $100.

The website is at: http://www.thekufiyehproject.org/ - please make sure to check it out! And you can reach either of us at: info@thekufiyehproject.org

In solidarity,
Mai Bader and Haithem El-Zabri.
The Kufiyeh Project.

Keffiyeh Not an Israeli Scarf

By Will

I am posting this Reuters video about the growing popularity of the keffiyeh/kuffiyah/kufiya among Israelis as a preemptive strike against future claims that it is an Israeli scarf. If I had the foresight and was alive then, I would have done the same for falafel and hummous. They take our land, claim our food, and now our aesthetics. What next?

On a separate note pertaining to the domestic political context, Fayyad commented:

The college girl raises an interesting point I had not thought of before. She wanted a stylish Kuffiyah and one that is not associated with Fatah, Hamas, or PFLP. Given the polarization and division on the street in Palestine, no wonder that "salata" kuffyiahs, as the shop keeper called them, are taking off.

[tarboush tip: Um Mazen]