Kurdish tailor devoted to making traditional hats

STORY: Kurdish tailor devoted to making traditional hats DATELINE: Nov. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:16 LOCATION: Baghdad CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Khalil Saeed sewing hats 2. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish): KHALIL SAEED, Kurdish tailor 3. various of Khalil Saeed taking a customer's measurements and sewing hats STORYLINE: For half a century, Khalil Saeed, a Kurdish tailor in the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, has been making hats of all kinds. And he still maintains his activity and enthusiasm in this profession. Saeed manufactures, in addition to classic men's hats, women's hats of various types and shapes, as well as academic graduation hats, and pays attention to old models. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish): KHALIL SAEED, Kurdish tailor "For 50 years, I have been practicing the profession of sewing hats of various kinds, especially fezzes, Turkish hats, and the Iraqi sedara hats, which are outdated, so my hobby is preserving them from extinction. So I make these things." Xinhua News Agency correspondents report