dishdash

People would say, 'Why are hajjis wearing dresses all the time,' [talking about traditional Iraqi dishdash].

Aaron Glantz: Fort Hood Shootings: Soldiers Often 'Racialize' to Cope 2009

The BBC script is Obama beat Bush, hope and change, Ahmadjinedad is a relic of Muslim cold war against Bush, and Mousavi is Obama in a dishdash, hope and change, and Iran is experiencing its orange revolution, and the future is orange, and love and peace are in sight.

THOSE IRANIAN ELECTIONS... 2009

I think most people think of the kaffiyeh and the dishdash, possibly the caftan.

I'd be embarassed to talk about shame so much. Ann Althouse 2008

The dishdash is worn in a particular region primarily Saudi Arabia and a few places in that vicinity, and is an expression of a certain culture, not a religion.

I'd be embarassed to talk about shame so much. Ann Althouse 2008

I think most people think of the kaffiyeh and the dishdash, possibly the caftan.

I'd be embarassed to talk about shame so much. Ann Althouse 2008

At last, I'm ushered up to the hotel entrance, where two Rolls Royce Silver Shadows disgorge the hotel's newest arrivals: a Saudi Arabian minister draped in his traditional white dishdash robe and a cattle baron from Texas.

Letter From Dubai 2007

In this bizarre version, George Bush is steely-eyed and determined, instead of quivering like a jellyfish, not to mention being actually present around the decision table rather than orbiting brainlessly in Air Force One, terrified that somebody in a dishdash would whack him like a pinata.

A Big Stick and a Small Carrot Garry 2006

All of the defendants, aside from Saddam Hussein, entered this court in the traditional Arabic garb of a dishdash.

CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2005 2005

Everyone but Saddam Hussein was wearing the -- the dishdash.

CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2005 2005

Fears of defaulting have forced Dubai's rulers to dishdash to their wealthier relatives in

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