Quos is an an agricultural stopping place on the Nile stretch between Qena and Luxor. Their humble locals are infamously tagged ‘ghattafeen ittawoi’, a phonetic Arabic notation for ‘hat thieves’.
Local Quos rascals would habitually snatch the hats from people on a train, departing from the local station, by jumping the compartments. It resulted in a flourishing local trade, now vanished with the so-called ‘tarboosh’ no longer being fashionable. Tarboosh is derived from the Persian ‘sar poosh’, meaning ‘covered head’.
Tarboush
Quos’ partisan ground is off-limits for people suffering from claustrophobia, such are the cramped conditions. Speaking of ‘hatters’, Luton Town’s Kenilworth Road or the sadly demised Baseball Ground of Derby County are wide open acres of space compared to the home of the ‘hat thieves’.
Cramped Conditions
The ground’s main entry is a hole in the wall on the village main street. Once inside one has to by-pass a corner flag and follow the touchline behind one of the goals to get access to the main stand.
Qous Main Stand
Opposite the main stand is another brick wall running the entire length of the pitch, leaving agonizingly sparse space for two benches that are practically situated on the touchline itself.
Two open holes serve as tv gantries, with camera men standing outside the ground on orange crates on the street’s sidewalk.
Quos Opposite Main Stand
Quos Main Stand
Quos Panorama
