CAIRO, Egypt — In a dusty storefront on the Street of the Tentmakers, Muhammad al Tarabishi unsnaps the locks on a worn leather hatbox. He lifts the cover to reveal a flat-topped cone of maroon felt.

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El-Baset ...

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El-Baset ...

There used to be a time when everybody was familiar with Shriners and their bling-bling, red fez hats with rhinestones and black tassels, whether they were motoring around in their mini cars during a ...