My friend just got back from Egypt, and bought me this beautiful red and white checkered scarf. At first, I was super amazed and freaking out mostly because it was from Egypt and I was surprised he even bought me this scarf, but the more I thought about it, I remembered it looked like a traditional Arab scarf that I’ve seen Arab men wear.

I’ve been trying to do some research on it, but haven’t found much information or gotten much luck on the current use of it, other than it was used traditionally to help them keep cool, but I don’t want to wear this in public and get confronted or insult anyone.

Would anyone happen to know anything about these scarves? And, would it be okay to wear out?

Topics: religion, culture, Saudi Arabia, offensive, scarves, Muslim