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The author of this book poses many intriguing questions: Why was there a Turkish mosque in Britain's famous botanical garden in the 18th century? How did Persian-inscribed cannons end up in rural Wales? And who is the Moroccan man in a long-forgotten portrait in a West London stately home? Examining the origins of paintings, drawings, carvings, and statues in Britain's galleries, museums, and civic buildings offers clues to discovering a largely unknown past. Often hidden in plain sight, this rich heritage reveals Oriental influences on pre-twentieth-century Britain. The term "Orient" is delib...
The New Arab
What can fiction teach us about the world we live in? According to Egyptian novelist Reem Bassiouney, it can impart lessons on everything from the history of the lands in which we live to secrets about how to communicate and love. Bassiouney is likely a little-known name in many English-speaking countries, but her work is widely read across the Arab world. She studied at Oxford University and has worked in the UK and the US, as well as in Egypt. Her fiction has garnered awards, including the 2020 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Sons of the People: The Mamluk Trilogy; the same book was also nominated ...
The New Arab
Seventy-six years after the Nakba, Palestinians continue to be pushed back from their lands, their lives snuffed out, as their culture and country continue to face systematic destruction. To remind the world of Palestine's rich culture and heritage, Franco-Palestinian chef and restaurateur, Fadi Kattan turns to the cuisine of the region to showcase the beauty and resilience of his people in his recently published book, Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food. "Writing this book has also sent me back to memories of how the city has evolved under occupation, how the raising of walls has cho...
The New Arab
Earlier this month, Tunisian authorities detained Saadia Mosbah, a human rights campaigner and the head of an NGO defending migrant rights in Tunisia. This incident marks the latest example of Tunisian President Kais Saied's autocratic behavior since his power grab in July 2021. The main Tunisian opposition parties have recently announced their intention to boycott the presidential elections expected to take place around October this year. In his book Loved Egyptian Night: The Meaning of the Arab Spring, Tufts University Professor Hugh Roberts argues that Tunisia was the only country to underg...
The New Arab
In our current times, when state surveillance mechanisms are directed at students, professors, and people of conscience protesting genocide, Between Two Moons by Egyptian American writer Aisha Abdel Gawad is a novel that transports readers to a critical turning point in the US for Arabs and Muslims. The novel is a nuanced and necessary narrative written as a coming-of-age story set in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, against the backdrop of anti-Arab prejudice and New York City Police Department (NYPD) surveillance of one of the largest Muslim communities in America. In a story that unveils state surveill...
The New Arab
The Land in Our Bones by Layla K. Feghali, a Lebanese ethnobotanist and cultural worker, is a remarkable book focused on the plants and ancestral healing practices of the Levant. It is also filled with reflections on the wounds inflicted by colonisation, what it means to live in the diaspora, and finding meaning and belonging in the spaces “in-between.'' Seamlessly flowing from the informative to the poetic and back again, it is richly interspersed with the stories and knowledge shared by village elders and indigenous healers, as well as relevant folklore and mythological cosmologies of the re...
The New Arab
A Mouth Full of Salt is the debut novel by Sudanese public health physician and writer Reem Gaafar. It won the 2023 Island Prize, marking the first time a Sudanese author has received this prize. In their press release, the prize judges praised the novel for being "stylistically simple, insightful, and elegant, sharing truths like all the best fiction." Indeed, Gaafar reveals many truths in her debut. The novel opens in 1989 with the news of a missing — and presumably drowned — young boy, Mohamed Hamid Kheir Alseed, which throws the residents of an unnamed village near the Sudanese city of Kar...
The New Arab
After Brian Baumgartner released Seriously Good Chili Cookbook: 177 of the Best Recipes in the World— a cookbook dedicated to chili, a nod to his character, Kevin Malone, in The Office— in 2022, he became interested in putting out another cookbook, but this time around, it would be something he was passionate about. "I make chili now — that is true, but it wasn't something I had ever really made growing up or even as an adult now. Let's just say the incident occurred [referring to Kevin making his famous chili in the series], and since then, I've made quite a bit of chili. But something I actu...
Morning Honey (AU)
After Brian Baumgartner released Seriously Good Chili Cookbook: 177 of the Best Recipes in the World— a cookbook dedicated to chili, a nod to his character, Kevin Malone, in The Office— in 2022, he became interested in putting out another cookbook, but this time around, it would be something he was passionate about. "I make chili now — that is true, but it wasn't something I had ever really made growing up or even as an adult now. Let's just say the incident occurred [referring to Kevin making his famous chili in the series], and since then, I've made quite a bit of chili. But something I actu...
Morning Honey (UK)
After Brian Baumgartner released Seriously Good Chili Cookbook: 177 of the Best Recipes in the World— a cookbook dedicated to chili, a nod to his character, Kevin Malone, in The Office— in 2022, he became interested in putting out another cookbook, but this time around, it would be something he was passionate about. "I make chili now — that is true, but it wasn't something I had ever really made growing up or even as an adult now. Let's just say the incident occurred [referring to Kevin making his famous chili in the series], and since then, I've made quite a bit of chili. But something I actu...
Morning Honey (CA)
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