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Jamal gives tips on dining with an Arab, the most important being to go to the table starving: the host will lay on a huge spread and keep heaping your plate. For most Palestinians, of course, having too much to eat is a dream. One of the dishes in the book is mjadarah, or rice with lentils. These ingredients keep well, which helps to explain the dish's popularity in a war zone - a fact, Jamal points out, recognized in United Nations food relief packages. Apart from rice and lentils, mjadarah requires only onions, salt, cumin, water and samneh...
This is not a political book, but Jamal can't resist describing a conference in Libya ostensibly to rally Arab nations to the Palestinian cause. It degenerated into a fierce debate about whether macaroni was the invention of the Italians, Libya's former colonial rulers, or was brought to Italy from China by Arabs. Writes Jamal: "Like many such conferences in Arab countries that are in principle to save Palestine, the only thing that was saved, finally, was the macaroni...
...Spanish and Catalan - called Palestine: Occupation and Resistance (Flor del Viento; 106 pages). In his role as historian rather than doctor or cook, he sets out to give a brief guide to the roots of the interminable conflict there. Israelis probably won't like it. But they should enjoy Arab Aroma, a book that could equally have been titled Make Food...
...since the rise of student radicalism in the late 1960s, but during the past year some Harvard students have noted an increase of anti-Israel bias inside the classroom. Professors perpetuate the Zionist-racist calumny that corrupted the United Nations for fifteen years. A professor helps to prosecute the Arab war against Israel by holding Israel responsible for the aggression against it. Teaching assistants routinely manifest their bias instead of presenting a critically balanced analysis. These are only some of the anguished laments I have been hearing from Jewish and other students who identify with Israel’s cause...
...lopped off 80 percent of it to create Transjordan after the Hashmites were expelled from Arabia by the Ibn Saud family. This map makes it clear that Jordan represented the lion’s share of historical Palestine; indeed, the majority of Jordan is still made up of Palestinian Arabs, just as the majority of Palestinian Arabs reside in Jordan. How is it, then, that those who question the Jews’ right to their part of Palestine do not simultaneously challenge Jordan’s right to the Arab part of Palestine? The map highlights the scandal that Arab...