The red and white keffiyeh is also sometimes linked to Jordanian nationalism because British commanders used them as part of the uniform for the Desert Patrol, a Bedouin unit of the Arab Legion.

A keffiyeh — sometimes spelled kufiyya or kaffiyeh — is a traditional scarf worn across many parts of the Middle East. In recent decades they have come to be identified in particular as a ...

Until the 1920s, the keffiyeh was almost exclusively worn by Bedouin men, according to Ghnaim, and it was simply a way to identify nomadic men in historic Palestine from villagers, fellaheen, and ...