Articles tagged with: Jerusalem

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on : Tuesday, 9 Oct, 2012

Cooking Up Jerusalem’s History

Jerusalem is a beautiful, inspiring work, as much about communities and cultures, festivity and family, as it is about food. As its authors note, "The flavours and smells of this city are our mother tongue. We imagine them and dream in them… They define comfort for us, excitement, joy, serene bliss. Everything we taste and everything we cook is filtered through the prism of our childhood experiences." Jerusalem is an unlikely primer on the history of Jerusalem itself. It turns out tha...

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Alastair Beach
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on : Wednesday, 21 Mar, 2012

Egypt Mourns Pope Shenouda

As he followed the ambulance carrying the body of Pope Shenouda III away from Cairo’s main cathedral after today’s funeral mass, Romani Abaded explained exactly what it was that made the Coptic patriarch such a totemic figure among Egypt’s Christians. “He was like a father, a mother and a brother, all in one,” said the 26-year-old restaurant worker. “He was important to people all around the world, not just the Arabs.” With thousands of other mourners streaming through th...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Tuesday, 1 Feb, 2011

State of Palestine

Other strategies used to control and expel Palestinians include the separation wall/fence, settlement building, political repression, deprivation of necessary reso...

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