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You have surely seen one of these scarves in a movie, real life, or even a video game. Have you ever thought about where the idea of this scarf came from?
Unfortunately, the media and some video games often show it as a cloth that terrorists wear. Maybe because it is used widely in several regions nowadays. Some movies bring it as a cloth for a rich man who throws his money on some business.
But the story behind these headwears belongs to an old tradition in between the middle eastern societies.
It has been known about the farmers in the rural areas of the Levant to wear a scarf that covers their head from the sunlight and face from the dust. It was used to wipe their sweat while tilling their land. You can say it’s like the Cowboy hat but in the middle east. However, this type of scarves was a part of the people’s culture in the countryside as well.
You will notice the Mukhtar (the village chief ), as well as old men wearing it. Also, the villagers used to…
