For men, this consists of an ankle-length robe called a dishdasha or kandura. |
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He wears a traditional dishdasha all year round and on cold days, a worn leather jacket and a black wool cap he pulls down over his ears. |
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A few doors down, an old man in a faded dishdasha sits crosslegged on a folded mattress pad. |
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The Sheikh wore a gray dishdasha robe with ornate diamond-and-silver cufflinks. |
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The man is emaciated under a white dishdasha and a red headscarf, a burning cigarette glued to his lips. |
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A voluminous outer gown still worn throughout the Middle East in the Arab world is the jellaba, known as the jellabah in Tunisia, a jubbeh in Syria, a gallibiya in Egypt, or a dishdasha in Algeria. |
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Who knew that just wearing a light-colored dishdasha in the winter season could ruffle so many feathers? |
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The colonel, looking at the corpse, saw that it was that of an old man who had been shot in the chest — he was unshaved but not bearded, and a white dishdasha that clothed his body was blood-soaked. |
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He wore a white head scarf, known here as a ghutra, and a robe known as a dishdasha. |
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These contained the bodies of Akhmed Farhim Hamid al-Jemi — a thin, bearded man wearing a green dishdasha — and two boys, whose tags indicated that they were under sixteen years old. |
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Underneath the dishdasha, men wear a plain, wide strip of cloth wrapped around the body from the waist down. |
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The most noted regional differences in dishdasha designs are the style with which they are embroidered, which varies according to age group. |
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On formal occasions a black or beige cloak called a bisht may cover the dishdasha. |
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The dishdasha is worn over a pair of loose fitting trousers, tight at the ankles, known as a sirwal. |
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A black man wearing a gray dishdasha and a kaffiyeh loosely wrapped around his head, Bedouin style, sat by an open fire and prepared pots of sweet tea and bitter Iraqi coffee for us. |
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Most frequently white in colour, the dishdasha may also appear in a variety of other colours. |
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A fair, fleshy man was dressed in a striped dishdasha from the men's show. |
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The most common was that Jordanians should acquire a taste to wearing the white dishdasha, a traditional white robe worn by nationals of the GCC states. |
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The khanjar, a traditional Omani, J shaped dagger is symbol of manhood and pride among Omani men and is worn along their leather belts over their dishdasha. |
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