Talk:Keffiyeh

Arafat's wasn't traditional
The main article says:

It would later become a trademark symbol of Yasser Arafat, who was rarely seen without a keffiyeh. Arafat would wear the keffiyeh in the traditional manner, around the head and wrapped by an egal, but he also wore in the neckline of his military fatigues.

Granted the tail end isn't grammatical enough to know how to even correct... However, I've heard that Arafat's keffiyeh was unique: he always wore a split in the front (even visible in the photo on this page) to symbolize the divide between the West Bank and Gaza. Since I heard that a decade (or two) ago I've always found this detail to draw my attention when I see pictures of him or of other keffiyehs.

I'm not going to make this edit myself, but I'm sure that the words "traditional manner" are therefore inaccurate.

Keffiyeh belongs to the Iraqis
Keffiyeh is a head covering that belongs to the Iraqis since the time of the Sumerians. You do not have the right to change the facts and attribute them to countries such as Saudi Arabia and other countries. 93.191.113.66 (talk) 13:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * No. Take your culture warring somewhere else. It does not belong here on Wikipedia. 17:21, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

False citations?
Can someone please verify this edit and the previous as well? -- Karim talk to me :)..! 16:44, 1 March 2024 (UTC)


 * are they related to to added information? -- Karim talk to me :)..! 13:36, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Palestinian national symbol
On 12 December 2023 added at the beginning of the Palestinian national symbol section "This section duplicates the scope of other articles, specifically Palestinian keffiyeh. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the section by replacing the section with a link and a summary or by splitting the content into a new article.". About a minute later at Talk:Palestinian keffiyeh) added "Section Keffiyeh duplicates Palestinian keffiyeh. Thus, the former should be merged in the latter. A summary could be left behind, in summary style.".

In March at Talk:Palestinian keffiyeh) replied "I think this article should be merged with the main Keffiyeh article. as this article describes the same pieace of clothing but is only referencing its significance in Palestinian culture, it does not need its own article and should be part of the main article".

There doesn't appear to have been any discussion here. Mcljlm (talk) 20:34, 1 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Please don't duplicate the discussion about the duplication of content; kindly keep the discussion centralized at Talk:Palestinian_keffiyeh. Thanks. fgnievinski (talk) 01:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * In your note you wrote "Please discuss this issue" without indicating discussion should take place at Talk:Palestinian_keffiyeh.  It cannot be assumed that everyone seeing it will assume the discussion is at Palestinian keffiyeh; it didn't occur to me and I only came across your section there by chance a while after starting this section. If the section here is merged with Palestinian_keffiyeh there'll not be any indication here that the matter was discussed. Mcljlm (talk) 14:43, 3 May 2024 (UTC)