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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia. Feta and related cheeses. Ancient Egyptian Language in the Arabic of Today. American University in Cairo Press. The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. Retrieved July 12, Ramadan's most favorite desserts". Sweet Treats around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. Annals of the caliphs' kitchens: See also contents and footnotes. What Gucci and Pucci are to the Dubai Mall, samar and sidr are to the world of honey, both luxurious in complexity and alleged through their rich minerals and vitamins to prevent cancer, skin disease, hair loss, weight gain and diseases yet to be discovered.
As a hair or face mask, messy, messy. Samar honey, which comes in various shades of gold, is sweet and light, stuff you can easily understand Winnie-the-Pooh trying to score. People seemed genuinely offended by my reaction. To be fair, it was just that sidr.
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It was thick and slightly waxy, which I learned fro a Saudi honey seller meant that it was processed, not raw. Sitting with his honeycombs, he offered a sampling of his sidr honey, which was thin and lush and melted on your tongue like butter on a hot day.
The weather in Abha is actually not that hot because of the altitude. At the souq, the samna is sold in mosaic-patterned containers or in skin sacks the size of small lambs. For all the honey of Arabia, there is little creativity in its culinary use in Abha: It is simply the kick to various forms of bread and porridge, which are topped with honey —and often samna. When I brought home the Abha honey and put it up against the other honeys in the kitchen, it was, as the vendor I finally settled on promised, so much richer than the others, not in color or thickness but in the purity—not sugary, not waxy, just a sweet flowery, lively smooth spoonful that takes one to a green field somewhere, full of sophisticated gradations of flavor and life.
Bloodshed, flooding, people fleeing persecution, the fodder of biblical stories from the Holy Land. They are present day Christmastime in the birthplace of Christmas. But Noel in its current incarnation is supposed to be about fun. You can understand why Christmas-celebrating people around the world choose to tune out the modern day Holy Land stories.
They are not fun. I love Christmastime in Dubai. The weather is the usual sunny stuff but the heat is pleasantly mild, and the humidity is usually on holiday somewhere else. Plus, the malls are festooned with some of the best Christmas decorations south of the North Pole, including the finest fake snow and ice on earth. And if you insist on real manmade snow, there is the indoor ski slope, transformed into an Alpine Christmas village. People in elf hats even offer us free stollen samples, this sweet roll that is the greatest invention of Germany after cars and gummy bears.
It should be a lot of fun.
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And some reckless ones, too. No pretense of anything else but keeping Christmas commercially honest. Competition between the blinding number of sales signs and billboards and the Christmas decorations is friendly and beneficial to both. Profits from the stollens are for charity. Including the workers who built the malls and the team making the stollens, who are Filipinos not Germans. No one talks about the floods in the Philippines or other troubles in the rest of the world and we all get along.
Without the religious icons on display, everyone joins in the true spirit of fun and oblivion without feeling left out on faith grounds. I heard a story once that the shape of a stollen represents the hump on the camel caravans that carried presents to Jesus when he was born. The dried fruit and raisins represent the jewels and gifts.
Who knows if there is any truth to that stollen story, but if you need a gift, there are plenty of places to get one here.
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And for a while you can forget about camels and people elsewhere who 2, years later still need a caravan to bring them good news. The Levant is among the many places across the world where spring means baby lambs, tree blossoms and the new buds that will produce precious bounty in a two or three months.
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There are also the foods that urban dwellers rarely meet in their green baby stage—like almonds and chickpeas. Most people wait for them to be picked, dried and packaged. Green almonds are picked and dunked in course salt and munched on, more for the crunchy, juicy freshness than for being particularly flavorful. Green chickpea pods, each yielding one or two peas, are roasted and then the soft, warm chickpea is popped out with the same principle as cracking open roasted peanuts in the shell.
This spring in Jordan the landscape is super green, thanks to a brutally rainy and snowy winter. More tellingly, ever since it ignored Obama's warning and confirmed that, rather than lead a "transition to democracy", it preferred attacking the civilian population of Jisr al-Shughour, gang-raping the wives of its opponents and ordering snipers to pick off demonstrators, the US president, the European Union, Turkey and the Gulf states have failed to turn to the democratic elements in the Syrian opposition instead.
Syria's Ba'athists have already killed more civilians than the Egyptian and Tunisian forces combined and yet they are tolerated. The scale of the oppression in Syria helps explain western indifference. The Ba'ath party keeps the media out and what the press does not see the world does not care about.
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Hozan Ibrahim, a former political prisoner who is a spokesman for the committee co-ordinating revolutionary protest, tells me that we should not only think about the past four months of oppression but the past four decades: Yet, almost miraculously, they are organising and to good effect. At a conference in the Turkish seaside resort of Antalya, the various strands of the opposition came together to agree on a programme that was multiracial — Syria's persecuted Kurdish minority was well represented; liberal — they pledged to fight for free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary; and anti-sectarian.
The last is not the smallest of the opposition's achievements. The ranks of the national initiative for change include Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood, although, thankfully, they are in a minority. Its more secular leaders have so far rejected the temptation to turn the revolution into a communalist war.
The UN will never tell you this, but Syria is an apartheid-style state. Even the underworld is segregated on confessional lines. The shabbiha crime gangs that run the prostitution and smuggling rackets, and whose members the Assads are letting loose on the civilian population, are Alawite mafias.