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  • 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

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

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