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Around them, a crowd of people are dressed in European-style clothes, while a large Egyptian man in a white galabiya is helping to hold the foundation stone.

From The New Yorker • May 7, 2019

In the black-and-white picture, he sits imperiously in a galabiya, a cane in one hand and a tarboosh on his head.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016

The men, many in long white galabiya with their sidecurls and kippa in full view, sit in the compound’s synagogue reciting verses from the Torah, a practice that was previously confined to their homes.

From Time • Sep. 30, 2013

Akrum Hennawy, 20, a student and Tahrir veteran waited patiently for Mahmoud, the old man in the brown galabiya and white turban, to make his choice.

From Time • Mar. 19, 2011

But one habit Egyptians cannot kick is the galabiya, the loose, ankle-length cotton garment that looks like a nightshirt and acts as an air conditioner of sorts in Egypt's sweltering heat.

From Time Magazine Archive