After checking in I donned a hooded, robe-like jellaba and headed up into the valley on a trail behind the ancient kasbah. |
I am frisked thoroughly, quickly and professionally by a mountain of a man dressed in a jellaba. |
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. |
For the ceremony itself, the groom wears a long, loose-fitting garment called a jellaba and the bride wears the traditional long head shawl and kaftan. |
He first introduces us to their mother Sabha, an old but still very beautiful lady wearing a black and red jellaba she embroidered herself and a light white scarf that floats freely on her shoulders. |