Wed 2 May 2012
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Soraya Morayef
I had a group of friends over and decided to try our some new recipes on them! Amongst the dishes was a particularly colorful mango salad - an adaptation of a recipe I found on the food network website.
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Tin of sweet corn...
Amani Massoud
My mother taught me to make atayef because it is a family tradition to have atayef every day of Ramadan. We never make desert atayef, but we do occasionally vary the cheeses and the combinations of cheese. Because I grew up in...
In celebration of Ramadan past and present, different ways of living during the holy month are shown in "Ramadan in Cairo," a photography exhibit hosted by the Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center. Shadowy rooms filled with arabesques are...
Thanks to our flickr Ramadan Recipes group we have received a number of Ramadan food pictures and recipes to add to our Ramadan Recipe collection. This recipe comes from Glutton Cat.
The bread is called “Ramazan pidesi,” which means...
On the 32nd night of her 1,001, Sheherazade tells the tale of "The Story of the Barber's Sixth Brother." Like most of the stories, and owing to her wily survivor instinct, it ends with a cliffhanger, but the opening, which we excerpt...
Hamas security forces have begun drills at Gaza's seaport in preparation for receiving the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, an aid mission composed of eight vessels that will attempt to break the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel since 2007.
An...
Extracts from An Enduring Love written by Farah Pahlavi and published by Miramax books.
It had been snowing. The piercing wind sweeping down from the peaks of the Alborz made crystalline flakes swirl up in the dawn light. The night had been calm,...
