Black became a popular colour for clothes because ... Image caption, A man wearing a modern day thawb (long tunic) and taqiyah (cap). The weather in cities like Baghdad is hot and dry which ...

Black became a popular colour for clothes because it represented wealth and high status. Image caption, A man wearing a modern day thawb (long tunic) and taqiyah (cap). Silk was a luxury fabric ...

His colleagues gifted him a thawb, it is a long robe worn by men in this Middle Eastern country. He was also given a traditional scarf called ‘shemagh’ with an ‘agal’ - a black cord that ...