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Jessica Proett reviews Salar Abdoh’s empirical novel set during the days when ISIS was running loose across Iraq and Syria.
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Chantico - named after the Aztec goddess of fires in the family hearth and of precious things - is a natural, healthy alternative to sugar and honey.
Based on a 400-year-old trading history between South Asia and Nordic countries, the name Trankebar comes from the unique seashore trading post in the city of Tharangampadi, as it is known in local dialect, and Tranquebar, in European discourse.
Does your family have a legend or a secret? We have one, and it has burgeoned into a dream over the course of a lifetime. From Napoli to America, my family is made up of generations of Italian cooks.
By Jessica Proett and Erin Salokas The Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute) or IMA in Paris has just fëted its 25th anniversary featuring a comprehensive exhibition entitled " 25 Years of Arab Creativity."
By Jessica Proett, Staff Writer In the West, the veil has now gone beyond a cliché symbol into a catalyst for policymaking. Whereas new dress code laws claim they aren't specifically targeting religion, banning face coverings directly affects the choice to wear certain traditional Muslim attire such as the niqab or burka.
By Jessica Proett, staff writer Levantine Review Albert Einstein said, "New frameworks are like climbing mountains-the larger view encompasses, rather than rejects, the earlier more restricted view." According to Isobel Coleman, senior fellow for U.S.
A collection of twelve stories from the Levant to the Gulf captures the Arab world Reviewed by Jessica Proett A glistening iron gate, a gleaming bronze body, radiant white light, a marble staircase and red carpets are some of the images that immediately draw the reader into the short story "At the Theatre" by Idwar al-Kharrat, where the first sentence is "Masks are the temptations of truth."
Reviewed by Jessica Proett Emma Williams, a British doctor and writer, witnessed the start of the second Intifada. The bloody head of a suicide bomber rolled to a stop in front of her children's school. She gave birth in a Bethlehem hospital while the city was under siege.
By Jessica Proett During Easter Week in Spain, amid processions of Jesus swaying through cobblestone streets, a group of Muslim tourists knelt down on the marble floors of Cordoba's Mezquita.
By Jessica Proett During a two-hour talk in Paris last week, internationally acclaimed writer and Islam scholar Reza Aslan challenged the way we view violent protests against the "Innocence of Muslims" film in Libya, Egypt and elsewhere in the MENA.
by Jessica Proett - for Seba, and her art. Her paintbrush reminds me of a skeleton's wrist, finger joints, or individual ribs... A wasteland is not this or that I associated it with in a campus courtyard under fallen leaves; it is what I've read and rewritten each time I feel Time slipping away.