Word: kaffiyeh
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...fruition the tentative peace agreement that Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin approved on the White House lawn last September. When he stepped onto Palestinian land for the first time in 27 years last Friday, Arafat was wearing his usual green military- style uniform, holstered pistol and checkered kaffiyeh. But he acknowledged that he must now switch roles from guerrilla leader to head of government. "We need national unity," he told a crowd of 70,000, who repeatedly drowned out his words with cheers. "Big, big, big, big missions await us -- to build this homeland and rebuild what...
From the moment he appeared silhouetted against the White House, in sharp- pressed khakis and trademark kaffiyeh, Arafat couldn't stop smiling. This was the arrival on the world stage he had always dreamed of. Rabin was plainly of a different mind, uncomfortable and stiff. His body language throughout the ceremony -- the tics, the cocking of his head, the eyes cast toward the sky, the ground, anywhere but Arafat -- gave away just how uneasy...
...That's why it is her face you see, her voice you hear speaking for her people, brilliantly recasting their cause as a cry for human justice. No longer can the world sum up -- and dismiss -- the Palestinians in the portrait of a stubble-bearded man wrapped in a kaffiyeh. This woman looks civilized, unthreatening, someone you'd like to invite to dinner, and she speaks with a compelling eloquence. With exquisite timing or luck or preternatural planning, she was there, this medieval-literature scholar, devoted mother, Christian and woman, exactly when the Palestinians were ready...
Last Christmas his parents sent Thom a 35-mm camera, and the photos from the roll he mailed home in January are among his family's greatest treasures. One shows Thom clowning around in a red-checked kaffiyeh under a camouflage net. Another portrays him standing in his tent, an M-16 on his arm and a cigarette hanging jauntily from his mouth. Several others show his light armored vehicle, hauntingly dubbed "Blaze of Glory." Painted on one side is a cartoon of an armed Saddam Hussein atop a camel, his body framed within the cross hairs. Says Dan Bartok...
Tarazi says he would not wear a pink triangle for gay rights to a Palestinian cultural event or a Palestinian kaffiyeh to a gay pride march. He seems to find it difficult enough to defend one controversial cause at a time, let alone to argue successfully for two very different causes with different constituencies...