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Fascinating overview of food in medieval Islamic world. The author discusses everything from cookbooks, regional variation, borrowing/incorporation of foods/traditions from across the known world, the impact of the discovery of the New World & introduction of foods such as tomatoes & potatoes (spoiler—they led to big changes), utensils, cooking pots, importance of aromatics etc…numerous medieval as well as contemporary recipes also included.

Starting another book about food…oddly enough (okay, perhaps not so oddly) my research is making me hungry! 😂

#HumbleHarvest Day 9: Bamboo stalks and #Hayride(s) seem to go together. Paired with delicious mexican burrito. Book was strongly recommended by my Kuwaiti doctoral student. 💕💕💕

#AutumnPlease! Day 26: I have a feeling wearing a #Mask could be a theme here with the main character struggling to find a sense of belonging while in-between cultures as a biracial individual - and not really fitting in with one (Kuwaiti) or the other (Filipino).

I loved the book and I also liked the graphic novel very much. Thank you @Sharv_Sona for the recommendation.

“For you, a thousand times over” is probably one of my favourite (and most moving) literary quotes.

Ian Black is a visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and former Middle East editor for The Guardian. Published in 2017 to coincide with the Balfour Declaration‘s centenary (although the book begins in 1882 and the arrival of Zionist settlers), this book provides a plain facts account of the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that explains what happened but doesn‘t elucidate on why, leaving me with half the story.

A gay Yemeni living in San Francisco in the 1990s checks himself into a psychiatric clinic having lost too many friends and his lover to AIDS. In the meantime Satan is interviewing Death and the saints known as the Fourteen Holy Helpers about him.

I wanted to like this book and kept thinking it was on the verge of becoming something really good but a third of the way through I have to admit it's just not happening for me. DNF.

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I am in tears. I reread the book a few days ago, and yet the graphic novel hits harder. It very emotional for me to see one of my favourite books come to life in such a unique way. This is why I love graphic novels. It isn‘t nearly as long as the book, but the impact which it had over me was through the roof. @Reyzl if you haven‘t already read this, please do.
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“For you, a thousand times over!”

The parallels 😭😖