From Hebron, Palestinian scarf resists... Chinese competition

In 1961, their father Yasser Hirbawi, who sold keffiyehs he brought from Syria and Jordan, decided to set up his own production line. Each year, they sell around 30,000 scarves, of which two or three percent are sold locally while the rest go overseas with the main markets in Italy, France and Germany, most of which are ordered online, according to Juda Hirbawi. Paradoxically, it was the British who turned the keffiyeh into a widespread symbol of resistance during the time of Palestine under the