There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western As ...
View quoteThe problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the ...
View quoteBut being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different c ...
View quoteSo much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is ess ...
View quoteThe Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutr ...
View quoteI don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. B ...
View quoteWhich is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battl ...
View quoteThere's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when An ...
View quoteIf you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern ...
View quotePedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeeh ...
View quoteI chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people ...
View quoteAmericans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get ...
View quoteBeing an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the p ...
View quoteRulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at leas ...
View quoteIn the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is ai ...
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