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  • Yasser Arafat
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    / Variations

    …associated with Palestine, while the shumāgh, a red-and-white variation of the item, is more commonly worn by members of the Bedouin community. During the 1930s, the shumāgh was used, under the direction of British army officer John Bagot Glubb, in uniforms worn by the Desert Patrol, a unit of the…

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    …associated with Palestine, while the shumāgh, a red-and-white variation of the item, is more commonly worn by members of the Bedouin community. During the 1930s, the shumāgh was used, under the direction of British army officer John Bagot Glubb, in uniforms worn by the Desert Patrol, a unit of the…

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