Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Lawrence of Arabia, and Our so Called Traditional Red and White Shimagh!!!!!


As far as I knew, Lawrence of Arabia was an old historical movie name. I never thought it was based on a true story about how east and west crossed hundreds of years ago. It would've been so much more interesting to me to watch and/or read about!

Furthermore, I was discussing how my dad never wore a shemagh.. And how he always wore a ghotrah, I always thought it was so khaliji of my dad. Plus, it's cooler in the summer, it looks better and he cares about his looks :P

Anyways, someone told me the sad truth! Still, I didn't find anything that agreed with that fact (as in written proof of this story) but I’ll tell u guys anyways; Lawrence was having some bawin visitors, and he didn't want to feel as an outsider between them or something, so he took out his table spread (EL SOFRAH!) which was red and white, and put it on his head!!! LOL

This is one of the weirdest stories about a tradition yet!





And in the end, i gotta say; I am happy seeing Sting wearing it! I love how the koffyah is now a big fashion trade mark!! :D



Would you wear the shimagh now? ;)

18 comments:

Justified Destiny said...

Lawrence was gay u know..

P.S. good to have u back foof! =)

Balqees said...

i think sting looks hot :P

o meen gal lawrence was gay :S

Nouph said...

JD,
lol yeah i heard. i wonder if he enjoyed his time between the badwins :P and thanks :$

Balgees,
lol, yeah he does :D

ren_crow said...

I always knew about lawrence of arabia. Bas i didnt know about the table cloth thing haha.
Yea after the whole kuffiya thing that went down in the states recently about that dunkin donuts advertisement, alot of people are taking notice of it now!

Balqees said...

btw my mom says that he is gay, coz he never got married and he always liked to sit with men , she saw a progrram abut him on prbit the other day

so '3reebah eno he's gay :S:S

Nouph said...

Ren_crow
lol, it is fashionable though isnt it? :D did u ever wear it ? ;)

Balqees
lol, my ancle told me, it was weird coming from him :P

ren_crow said...

Yea i did. For like a minute. It was my friends haha

Whatever said...

I prefer the red shma'3 rather than the '3itra,, more chic in my opinion. And me too I thought it was just a movie =D how interesting!

Rimyoleta said...

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
u have a new blog!!!!!

SwaRwaR said...

sting looks hot :P

Nouph said...

ren_crow
lol. i'd like to see how it looked! heh

Fa6ma
i knoww!
i thought how weird :P hehe
and i like the ghotrah more for some reason..

Rimyoleta
i was wondering why u never visit anymore!!! :P

The Beautiful Spirit
Why r u gathering stories anyways?

SwaRwaR
Lol, he sure does ;)

ITACHI said...

both of them are gay :P

shma'3 is better..

Bassem said...

I just wanna say I've missed you lol

Bassem said...

I just wanna say I've missed you lol

Nouph said...

itachi
lol.. if u say sooo :P

bassem
see what marriage does to a "blogger" :'(

Ammaro said...

its nice to see people wearing it all over, but the sad thing is, not many really know what it represents

Anonymous said...

...Interesting.

Nouph said...

ammaro
what does it represent?

f_
hope it was.