There are a variety of styles of misrs, depending on the student's region of birth. Different fabrics and prints are used, depending on the occasion, region, family tradition, and student's personal preference.

Misr is the Arabic word for Egypt, by the way. (We had to get money from the ATM at Bank Misr while we were travelling in Egypt.) But in the Gulf, misr means a man's headress—what we might call a turban in the West.

One of the SQU students is Khaled, who demonstrates how the misr is prepared in the Al-Buraimi area of Oman, to the west and next to the UAE.

Khamis, on the other hand, is from the Sharqiyah region of Oman—southeast of Muscat, and in fact the furthest east you can go in Oman without getting really wet!

Finally, Hussain demonstrates the method for tying a Muscat-region misr. See if you can spot some of the differences between the styles, and the ways in which they prepare them...