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In questo interessante articolo, Alia Gilbert e Fadi Arouri per Brownbook raccontano la storia dell’ultima fabbrica palestinese di keffiyeh. Attraverso la storia della fabbrica, ci mostrano anche la storia della keffiyeh, indumento che è diventato simbolo di appartenenza e lotta di un popolo.

On a quiet Hebron street, a rhythmic click-clacking of metal on metal gets louder with every step as you descend the staircase into the factory. Once inside, fluorescent lights illuminate the half-concrete, half-tiled basement floor. Mini plastic flags – in red, green, white and black – decorate the ceiling from end to end. On one of the walls is a poster of Yasser Arafat. On his head: his signature keffiyeh.

The click-clacking comes from the 15 burly machines on the workshop floor. Not all of the machines are working, but the ones that are churn out metres and metres of the same pattern worn by Arafat in the poster. This is Hirbawi Textiles, the last and only keffiyeh factory in Palestine.

Immagine By Jean-François Gornet (Flickr: Voile), via Wikimedia Commons