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Quique Kierszenbaum

100% Palestinian
“The Chinese are our biggest enemy”, says Azzad Herbawi, whose father Yasser (75) owns of the only keffiyah factory in the West Bank. The family business is struggling to compete with the prices of the Far East textile industry: A dozen keffiyahs made in China are sold to Palestinian merchants for 60 NIS – half the price of those made by the Palestinian factory in Hebron.

April 29, 2009

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