by Tanya | Jan 12, 2021 | Conversations
Located in the middle of the Jordanian desert, about 2 hours outside Amman, sits 155,000 olive trees. Ziad Bilbeisi, former architect and founder of Al Maida owns these groves and works together with his four children to produce an internationally respected, award...
by Tanya | Jan 6, 2021 | Conversations
Noor Awad is the brilliant mind behind Homegrown, the social enterprise that helps support small-scale Palestinian farmers cultivating olive trees, and sources their produce in a bid to shed light on their stories, and in turn, help sustain their olive groves. For the...
by Tanya | Jan 27, 2019 | Visual Arts
Life goes on, whether you choose to move on or whether you choose to stay in the past. Wujoud, which means ‘Existence’ in Arabic, is a Cultural Center and Museum that chose to move on; albeit by respecting the past through the prism of poignant truth telling. Set...
by Tanya | Mar 7, 2018 | Cuisine
There are many variations to the old Palestinian dish of Mujadarra. The first recorded recipe appears in a cookbook composed in 1226 by Al Baghdadi in Iraq. Containing rice, lentils, and meat, it was served this way during celebrations. Without meat, it was a...
by Tanya | Feb 6, 2018 | Cuisine
There is nobody from the Levant region that did not grow up with this simple and nutritious meal in his or her home. Laban Immo is a rice and yogurt dish delicacy made with lamb, and literally means ‘the milk of his mother’. Silky and smooth like the texture of fresh...
