#haïk

[yuna-is-tired-sm]

يُغريكَ هَذا النّور بِي لا تَقترب

نارٌ أنا، في موطنٍ رَثٍّ خَرِبٍ.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫—𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲.

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞,

𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐲.

[babalmaghrib]

« Smoke of Ambergris, Tangier, Morocco » by John Singer Sargent, 1879 | Haik in Morocco

It was in 1879, during his trip to the charming city of Tangier, that he produced this painting representing a woman dressed in a Haïk.

[mydearalgeria]

Algeria. Women in traditional white Hayek and aajar, Algiers - 1974.

Private Diapo from @mysticdiapo collection.

[manotelier]

NIYA by MANAL (2020)

directed by Manal Benchlikha and Amira Azzouzi

[bookofkhidr]

Marc Riboud (French photographer, 1923 - 2016), Algerian women in their traditional Haïk during their Independence Day, 1962

[mydearalgeria]

Algeria. Woman from the capital city of Algiers wearing a white hayek with a traditional piece of jewlery called khit El rouh. امرأة عاصمية بالحايك التقليدي و خيط الروح على جبينها.

[mydearalgeria]

Algeria. Women in white haïk, seroual zenka and aajar in the streets of Algiers’ Casbah. 

[mydearalgeria]

Algeria. Women wearing haïk and aajar in a street in Algiers - 1923.