Maysaloun Faraj, The Orange, 2002.Four artists of Iraqi descent are achieving global recognition for their paintings and handbag design. Both proud of their culture of origin and open to reso…
Culture
In this remembrance with a recipe, a writer in California traces her inclination for growing back through her father and his father, a retired baker and confectioner from Syria. The San Francisco Bay…
Italo Lanfredini, Piroghe-Mari (2019–21), 55 x 440 x 82cm, no. 2, pieces of poplar, gilding, shavings, and 56 poetic cards, Villa Medici del Vascello, San Giovanni in Croce, Italy / Courtesy of the ar…
At certain times of day, around summer, there are peculiar, soft bursts of sunlight that beam through the leaves of fig and plane trees on the coast of the Sea of Marmara. Its rays fall gently over th…
An ancient Babylonian recipe for cooking turnips survived in one of the three cuneiform tablets dating from around 1700 BC. THIS IS A SUBSTANTIAL DISH of a creamy vegetable s…
Rawan Anani / Courtesy of the artist A Palestinian-American writer reflects on pieces of Palestinian culture—embroidery, food, dance, a cartoon character—and how they help restore to her a deep a…
No portrait of Palestine is complete without an understanding of its cuisine. Here, British Palestinian chef Joudie Kalla introduces two classic dishes. Mussakhan – Auntie Lamia’s…
Still from Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Lilies Films / Arte / Hold Up Films, 2019) What to make of the arrival of an LGBT period drama from the time of Louis XV into the twenty-first cent…
Giannina Braschi, sitting in the Flying Carpet Armchair (1972) by Ettore Sottsass at R&Company in New York City in 2019. The avant-garde writings of Giannina Braschi are popping up i…
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