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As we traveled back through memory lane – to when our grandparents and parents consumed locally grown, fresh products or preserved homemade ingredients to use during different seasons – we decided ...
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In the author’s own words: This book began as a simple cookbook with recipes I wished to share with my friends, my family, and, most importantly, my children in order to honor our heritage and ...
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Lima Shawa cites recipes for Gaza specialties as well as for dishes cooked and consumed by Palestinians outside Gaza and Arabs elsewhere. She describes Gaza through its weddings, Ramadan observance...
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Growing up, taking a zeit and za’atar sandwich to school for lunch was not cool, nor was my humous and falafel sandwich. The delicious food my grandmothers, mother and aunts made wasn’t something I...
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Before Israel’s 1948 war of establishment, Gaza was a gateway to the Levant for both armies and civilians travelling northwards from Egypt and a crossroads for those turning eastwards toward the Ar...
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Food for Thought Coffee is just one of the gifts the Arabs have given to the world. Cultivated and consumed in Yemen in the 15th century, the beverage gave birth to coffee houses where patrons met,...
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I Read, I Write: The Photo Series Documenting Women's Journeys with Education in MENA The series, which has taken her around a flurry of Arab nations including Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and Tunisia,...
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Born from her own experience, Laura Boushnak’s epic long term project celebrates the stories of women across Arab countries whose lives have been transformed by education. Interview by Eefje Ludw...
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Laura Boushnak, I Read I Write JTF (just the facts): Published in 2019 by Rimal Books (here). Hardcover, 180 pages, with 75 color photographs. Includes a foreword by Hanan Al Shaykh, an introduct...
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BOOK OF THE MONTH - March 2020 It is shocking that in the twenty-first century, women in the Arab world still struggle to learn how to read and write, basic skills central to life all over the worl...
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"نفسي أتعلم عشان المواصلات.. لأني بتوه": كُتبت هذه الأمنية بخط يد غير متقن، بواسطة سناء محمد سيد، الشابة المصرية التي كانت بعمر 31 عاماً حين التقت بها المصورة والكاتبة الفلسطينية لورا بشناق، عام 20...
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How photographer Laura Boushnak is celebrating Arab women challenging norms Palestinian photographer Laura Boushnak captures Arab women who are overcoming barriers to education “I got an educatio...
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Children Wondering About a Lost Homeland Nabil El Arini, a writer of children's literature and Palestinian folk tales, created a story collection based on stories told by Grandmothers called “Sitt...
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Book of the Month The Arab Architectural Renaissance in the Western Part of Occupied Jerusalem Three years of field study and literature review have culminated in The Arab Architectural Renaissan...
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ميموزا عراوي لـ"المدن": "نوارة" الزئبقية مهداة إلى اللغة العربية أصدرت الفنانة والكاتبة ميموزا عراوي كتابها "نوارة" عن دار رمال، وهو مزيج من القصة الخيالية والرواية البصرية، يجمع الكتابة مع الفن ال...
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نداهة الشرق.. صحفية تروى قصة حبها لبلاد العرب: لن أعود لأمريكا نشرت الكاتبة الصحفية الأمريكية مايكل يانسن، كتابًا تحت عنوان «Windows on Interesting Times»، أو «نوافذ على أوقات مثيرة للاهتمام»...
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A love affair with the Middle East Windows on Interesting Times by Nicosia-based journalist Michael Jansen By Hermes Solomon Windows on Interesting Times, a new book by a veteran Mi...
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A love affair with the Middle East Windows on Interesting Times by Nicosia-based journalist Michael Jansen By Hermes Solomon Windows on Interesting Times, a new book by a veteran Middle East jo...
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Les champs multiples de Mimosa el-Arawi L’artiste de la semaine Son 3e opus, « Nawwara », vient de naître après huit longues années de gestation. L’artiste pluridisciplinaire y met son concentré d...
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Threads of Identity – Widad Kamel Kawar Book Review - March 5, 2019 by Ansie As the title suggests, this is a book about identity. It is filled with personal stories, anecdotes, history and texti...
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نوارة، سيّدة القطن: هذا ليس كتاب، إنّه نافذة على الكون كاتبة ورسّامة، ناقدة أدبيّة وفنيّة، ميموزا العراوي التي وقّعت خلال أمسيتين متتاليتين (25 و26 كانون الثاني، يناير) كتابها الثالث "نوارة" في رحا...
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رواية "نوّارة" ومعرض تشكيلي لميموزا العراوي أخوّة الخط الكتابي والغرافيكي والعمل التشكيلي اللوني وقّعت ميموزا العراوي كتابها المعنون "نوّارة". ترافق التوقيع مع معرض فنّي تشكيلي لها ضم أعمالاً من ...
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رحلة البطلة «نوّارة»: صراعات ومآس في 25 و26 كانون الثاني (يناير) الحالي، تستضيف «دار النمر للفن والثقافة» احتفال إطلاق كتاب «نوارة ــ رحلة سيدة حقل القطن» (دار «رِمال») للروائية والفنانة اللبنانية...
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A STORY OF STORIES When I was a little girl, my parents gave me One Thousand and One Nights to read, and I was hooked on the Middle East for the rest of my life. Michael Jansen’s Windows on Intere...
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Iraqi architect Maath Alousi receives the 2018 Tamayouz Lifetime Achievement Award Iraqi architect, artist, and author Maath Alousi is the recipient of this year's Tamayouz Lifetime Achieve...
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Michael Jansen on 50+ Years in the Turbulent Middle East In her talk to The Bray Heads Group and the lively discussion which followed it on 25 October, Michael Jansen drew on her experiences livin...
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New book on Middle East aims to reflect the lives of its people in their own words Michael Jansen has been writing for more than half a century on people and events in the Middle East May you li...
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‘We understand each other’: An Irishwoman’s Diary on Ireland and the Middle East During recent back-to-school ceremonies at a boys’ school in a Palestinian refugee camp near Jordan’s capital Amman...
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