They asked us to remove our turbans for a security check and said that if we didn’t comply, we would not be allowed to board the flight. However, refusing to remove our turbans, we said that we would ...
The bearded, bespectacled cleric is never seen without traditional robes and the black turban that marks him out as a descendant of the prophet Mohammed. He is married and has four surviving children.
The Shiite cleric was born in 1964 in the southern Lebanese village of Deir Qanoun En Nahr. Like the late Hezbollah leader, he wears the black turban signaling that he is a “Sayyid,” a Shiite ...
Like the late Hezbollah leader, he wears the black turban signaling that he is a “Sayyid,” a Shiite honorific title denoting descent from Prophet Mohammed. The 60-year-old cleric has had a ...