Lincoln Journal Star · Lincoln, Nebraska · 14 December 1947

CP-1947-026

Palestine Riots Up Fez Industry

The Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM. (AP). Palestine’s rioting is putting piasters into the pocket of Yacoub El Bokharia, dean of Jerusalem’s tarboosh makers. After the United Nations’ vote for partition, Arabs quickly began donning their traditional headdress—either the maroon velvet fezzes they call tarbooshes or the combination of hair rope binding a white shawl, called the agal and kuffieh. Bokharia, who fashions tarbooshes from Czechoslovak felt for about $8 apiece, said that before the riots he made two or three a day, but ‘now we are having to finish 30 to 40 every day.’”

Context added by this archive

A hatmaker, named and quoted, two weeks after the vote. The clipping records the moment a headdress became a statement.

Cite this item

"Palestine Riots Up Fez Industry," Lincoln Journal Star, 14 December 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-026. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-026

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