There was a transistor radio and a Muslim holy book, both said to have been left ... including the black-and-white checkered headdress that came to represent the Palestinian quest for a homeland.

Yasser Arafat had a knack for turning ordinary objects into symbols, including the black-and-white checkered headdress that came to represent the Palestinian quest for a homeland. Six years after ...

76.2 x 63.2 cm. (30 x 24.9 in.) inscribed on the book with text from Saint Augustine's City of God, Book 18, Chapter 23: Vunde Deum cernent inc / ... fidelis Celsum cu / tis evi iam / ipso Sic ani / ...