Middle Eastern category: 410 books
Hummus and Co
Middle Eastern food to fall in love with
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Hummus & Co. invites you into its generous heart, full of great food for sharing with friends and family.
The many fans of Kepos Street Kitchen and Kepos & Co. often ask Michael and Kristy for the recipes they cook at home. In this, their second book, there are recipes for every kind...
Spice
Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
On a trip to Turkey as a young woman, chef Ana Sortun fell in love with the food and learned the traditions of Turkish cooking from local women. Inspired beyond measure, Sortun opened her own restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the award-winning Oleana, where she creates her own interpretations...
by Cara Murray
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British, who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it was being internationally planned and invested, came to own it. It stands to reason that the nation that prided itself on its engineering prowess and had...
Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East
Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a unique intervention in the understanding of 'in-between' and ‘threshold’ states in present-day postcolonialist thought. His analysis situates liminal...
A Taste of the East
Our 100 top recipes presented in one cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
1001 nights for your tastebuds! Delicate aromas, exotic spices and fascinating flavour combinations: few cuisines offer such a varied feast for the palate and the eyes as do those of the Middle East. This ebook offers a range of culinary delights straight out of 1001 Nights. From sumptuous starters for...
Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons
Enchanting dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In this culinary exploration of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa, Diana Henry has gathered together dishes that combine exotic flavours in ways long forgotten - or never discovered - in many Western kitchens. Colourful, aromatic and perfumed ingredients, from leathery pomegranates,...
Sirocco
Fabulous Flavors from the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Journey to the Middle East and Mediterranean with alluring recipes from Sabrina Ghayour, dubbed “the golden girl of Persian Cookery” by The Observer, in the highly anticipated follow-up to her bestselling debut cookbook, Persiana.
Sirocco highlights the use of simple pantry staples and...
Honey & Co.
The Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Named Cookbook of the Year by the Sunday Times (UK)
Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards Cookery Book of the Year 2015
The Guild of Food Writer's (UK) Award Winner for Best First Book
"Honey & Co.'s food--taking its cue from generations of dedicated home cooks--captures everything...
Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes
Al-Andalus from the Tenth to Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. By bringing the Jewish attitude towards the "other" into sharper...
Mezzaterra
Fragments from the Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love–an incisive collection of essays on Arab identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized world.
The twenty-five years’ worth of criticism and commentary collected...
Arab Representations of the Occident
East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research El-Enany examines the attitudes as expressed mainly through works of fiction written by Arab authors during the twentieth, and, to a lesser extent,...
The Arabian Nights
A Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
A generous and erudite book...We're in the company of someone who loves The Arabian Nights, and who has generously shared that love with us through this companion.' - Michele Roberts, Independent on Sunday
'Superlative...just the sort of relaxed, informative book that Edmund Wilson might have...
Moroccan Noir
Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture...
Iterations of Loss
Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries....