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In 1938, British Mandatory High Commissioner in Palestine, Harold MacMichael , reported to the Foreign Office: "This ‘order’ has been obeyed with surprising docility and it is not an exaggeration to say that in a month eight out of every ten tarbushes in the country had been replaced by the [keffiyeh and] ‘agal’." [ 20 ] Following the end of the revolt, most residents either reverted to wearing the tarbush or elected to go hatless. [ 21 ] The black and white chequered keffiyeh dates to the 1950s when Glubb...