TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Nestled among shops in a bustling market in north Lebanon's Tripoli, Mohammed Al Shaar is at his workshop making traditional tarboosh hats, keeping up a family craft despite ...

HRAJEL, Lebanon — High in Lebanon’s rugged mountains, hatmaker Youssef Akiki is among the last artisans practising the thousand-year-old skill of making traditional warm woolen caps once widely worn ...

A Lebanese businessman has decided to donate Adolf Hitler's top hat and other objects linked to the Nazi leader to an Israeli foundation in order to keep the items out of the hands of neo-fascists.

Akiki among last artisans practising 1,000-year-old skill of making warm woolen caps Hatmaker Youssef Akiki poses for a picture with his daughter and nephew as they wear traditional "Labbadeh" hats at ...

Akiki believes he may be the last commercial maker of the sheep wool "labbadeh" -- a named derived from the Arabic for felt, or "labd" -- a waterproof and warm cap coloured off-white, grey, brown or ...