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 ...

remembered the night Cooper gave him the hats. He said: "I was fascinated by the fez and just asked him straight out if I could have it. "He took [the fez] off his head and handed it to me.