The Take: The last keffiyeh factory in Palestine

11 Jan 2024
Palestine

Podcast, The Take

What is the keffiyeh and how is the last factory making them in Palestine doing?

As the world sees the largest pro-Palestine protests on record, the interest in owning a keffiyeh is skyrocketing. Hirbawi is the last known factory making keffiyehs in Palestine. So how is that changing Hirbawi and the meaning behind the keffiyeh?

In this episode:

Wafa Ghnaim (@tatreezandtea), Palestinian dress historian Azar Aghayev (@hirbawiusa), US distributor for Hirbawi

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Chloe K Li with our host Malika Bilal. Khaled Soltan and Zaina Badr fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this episode. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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