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Ill Wind of Partition Blows Profits to the Fez-Maker, Associated Press, NY Times, Dec. 14, 1947.

Yacoub el Bokharia, dean of Jerusalem’s tarboosh makersClick here to view the original article.

JERUSALEM, Dec. 13—Palestine’s rioting is putting pilasters into the pocket of Yacoub el Bokharia, dean of Jerusalem’s tarboosh makers.

After the United Nations’ vote for partition, Arabs quickly began donning their traditional headdress—either the maroon velvet fezzes they call “tarbooshes” or the combination of hair rope binding a white shawl, called the “Agal” and Kuffieh.” Bokharia, who fashions tarbooshes from Czechoslovak felt for about $8 apiece, said that before the riots he made two or three a day, but “now we are having to finish thirty to forty every day.”

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