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Styled Archives: Arab Stars Tip Their Hats to Style

From fedoras to caps to knit beanies, these MENA celebs proved that the right hat doesn’t just complete a look, it steals the show.

Salma Abdelsalam

Styled Archives: Arab Stars Tip Their Hats to Style

In the Middle East and North Africa, hats have always done more than cover the head. They signal allegiance, project character, fix an image in the public eye. The keffiyeh and ghutra carry history. Fedoras, fascinators, and knit caps slip into the frame of celebrity.

Omar Sharif’s fedora was as recognisable as his film roles. Myriam Fares, photographed in a knit cap in 2012, gave casual headwear a pop charge. Across decades, each brim, tilt, or flourish has etched itself into the region’s style record — a shorthand for glamour, bravado and reinvention.

Omar Sharif | 'The Appointment' Set (1969)

Black fedora, striped suit, tailored precision — the look of an icon who made elegance seem inevitable.

Soad Hosny | ‘Baba Ayez Keda’ Set (1968)

A polka-dot wide brim with puff sleeves: exuberant, theatrical, and playfulness turned high style.

Haifa Wehbe | Photoshoot (2006)

A beige newsboy cap and striped knit lent vintage softness, nostalgia shading her modern allure.

Tamer Hosny | Ha’ish Album Photoshoot (2009)

A sharply angled fedora framed a cinematic silhouette — polished, restrained, unmistakably in command.

Najwa Karam | Album Cover (2010)

A leopard-print dress under a wide-brimmed straw hat radiated sunlit glamour, confidence distilled.

Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel of Saudi Arabia | Royal Wedding of Prince William (2011)

Blush lace and a feathered fascinator: refined elegance made sculptural for a royal stage.

Myriam Fares | Photoshoot (2012)

Crisp in white, a knit cap tipped the look toward play — softening, enlivening, punctuating.

Nancy Ajram | MBC The Voice Kids (2016)

A black fedora crowned her monochrome, transforming a TV stage into an editorial moment.