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#381459 - 06/13/12 01:43 AM Palestinian Keffiyeh
RussianCath Member Registered: 05/24/10 Posts: 108 Loc: US	Dear Forum Members, Glory be to Jesus Christ! Is the traditional Palestinian head scarf for men, the Keffiyeh, (with the black Agal-the rope which keeps it in place on the head)worn only by muslims, or is it also traditionally worn by Palestinian Orthodox & Catholics? Thank You!
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#381506 - 06/13/12 10:30 PM Re: Palestinian Keffiyeh [Re: RussianCath]
Pavel Ivanovich Member Registered: 07/03/03 Posts: 2834 Loc: Western Australia	There is nothing Palestinian or Moslem about wearing the Kefiyeh. It is worn in different ways by many men of all faiths all across the asiatic Arab lands.
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#381548 - 06/14/12 11:58 AM Re: Palestinian Keffiyeh [Re: RussianCath]
Ot'ets Nastoiatel' Member Registered: 07/03/06 Posts: 294 Loc: 266 Mulberry St. NY, NY 10012	In my Jordanian parish the older men wear the kaffiyeh even in church but they remove the agal.
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#381563 - 06/14/12 03:59 PM Re: Palestinian Keffiyeh [Re: RussianCath]
ag_vn Member Registered: 04/24/09 Posts: 120 Loc: BG	This is Patriarch Theophilos communing a man with Keffiyeh, but without the Agal: http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4189/4551862v.jpg The Orthodox church in I'billin, north Israel. A man is communing wearing a white Keffiyeh at 05:35: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM-45uCH8WY Roman Catholic Church in Zababdeh, West bank: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcarillet/2435108788/sizes/z/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcarillet/2435108806/in/photostream/ Although not Palestians and not in Palestine, but in Kuwait and with the Agal: http://www.spc.rs/files/u5/2011/4/Sv__Pricest_2.jpg http://www.spc.rs/files/u5/2011/4/Sv__Pricest.jpg The way of the Cross during Lent 2010 at the Syriac Catholic church in Al-Nabk, Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Homs. There are elderly men wearing black Keffiyehs with the Agal. http://www.syrcathoms.org/show.php?id_p=20&id=97
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#381815 - 06/19/12 12:51 PM Re: Palestinian Keffiyeh [Re: RussianCath]
IAlmisry Member Registered: 01/06/08 Posts: 754 Loc: Chicago	One of my more vivid memories when I was a pre-teen in Chicago was seeing a man in kufiyyah walking (with his wife(?) a few steps behind) past a neo-gothic Lutheran church. He would take a few steps, cross himself while bowing low, take a few steps and repeat until he passed the church.
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