The keffiyeh or kufiya (Arabic: كُوفِيَّة kūfiyyah, meaning "from the city of Kufa" (الْكُوفَة); plural كُوفِيَّات kūfiyyāt), also known as a ghutrah (غُترَة), shemagh (شُمَاغ šumāġ), ḥaṭṭah (حَطَّة), mashadah (مَشَدَة), chafiye, dastmal yazdi (Kurdish: دستمال یزدی) or cemedanî (Kurdish: جه مه داني), is a traditional Middle Eastern, headdress worn in the Middle East, with origins from the Fertile Crescent (Iraq and the Levant) fashioned from a square scarf, usually made of cotton
