Word: dishdash
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...only stopped because the man looked so incongruous, running along the bank of a drainage canal, wearing a flowing black dishdash and holding aloft a flaming torch like some athlete carrying the Olympic flame. I should have known better than to get out of the car for a closer look: all the other vehicles on the fly-over into the western Baghdad district of Al-Ghadeer were speeding away. Mohammed, my driver/translator, shouted at me to stop, but I assumed he was warning me about the approaching traffic. I didn't sense danger until I approached the green verge alongside...
...stadium, as groups of marchers await their turn in front of the cameras, there?s a lot of joshing and laughing. Lots of singing, too - not military dirges or paeans to the President, but traditional songs of love and camaraderie. A middle-aged man in the traditional Arab dishdash and red keffiyeh breaks into a tribal dance; a couple of young men, egged on by their mates, join in the jig. Soon there?s a circle of men clapping and cheering as the dangers strut their stuff. The commotion attracts the attention (as it was intended to, probably...
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