SOURCE: CBS DETROIT Story Hoodline — In search of a new favorite Middle Eastern spot? We crunched the numbers to find the top Middle Eastern restaurants around Detroit, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to find shawarma, falafel and more. 1. 2941 Street Food PHOTO: 2941 STREET FOOD/YELP … Continued
SOURCE: COUNTERPUNCH BY: CESAR CHELALA President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the deal with Iran creates, unnecessarily, a new source of tension in a region besieged by conflicts. Given the level of legal troubles that President Trump is facing now, his decision could be based to some extent in creating the conditions to … Continued
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer Called by the Persians the ‘golden seeds of the sun’ and once a favoured aphrodisiac food in the Court of James I, apricots are one of the earliest fruits known to man. Some even believe that they were possibly the ‘apples’ in the Garden of Eden. Through the centuries, … Continued
SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST BY: FAREED ZAKARIA There’s a lot to be optimistic about today. In almost every part of the world, economies are growing and war, poverty and disease are receding. But then there is the Middle East. Syria remains a collapsed country; more than 5 million of its people have already fled. Yemen is now the site … Continued
SOURCE: UCLA NEWSROOM BY: JAMES GELVIN James Gelvin is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at UCLA. This column originally appeared in the Conversation. It’s always dangerous to make predictions about the Middle East. After all, few experts foresaw Anwar al-Sadat’s trip to Jerusalem in 1977, which led to the first peace treaty between Israel and an … Continued
SOURCE: THE JORDAN TIMES Of the many fascinating reports in Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” book on the Donald Trump White House, perhaps most troubling for Americans and for the world were the new insights into how the United States today shapes its Middle East policies. After spending the last three months in the US and interacting … Continued
The White House has confirmed that Vice President Mike Pence will travel to the Middle East later this month for consultations in Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Pence is set to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on January 20 and with Jordanian King Abdullah II on January 21; this, before spending two days in … Continued
PlanetObserver / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 SOURCE: TRUTHDIG BY: JUAN COLE In some ways, the United States faces a more favorable foreign policy environment in 2018 than it has in some years, with regard to facts on the ground. Ironically, some of the more severe challenges emanate not from objective conditions abroad but from the erratic and … Continued
By Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer Called by the Arabs of the Middle East, ‘the milk of lions’, arak, also known as arack and arraki, is the national alcoholic drink of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. It is given this nickname because of its highly potent overpowering strength. character. An aniseed-flavoured colourless spirit distilled from … Continued
SOURCE: NATURE MIDDLE EAST Peter Rogers, Gordon McKay research professor of environmental engineering and professor of city and regional planning at Harvard University, entertains the scenario of a region without freshwater. Very few people choose to live in deserts. Nevertheless, given the technologies developed over the centuries, there is nothing to stop us from settling … Continued
SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: FAISAL AL YAFAI An American literary dispute has highlighted the tangled links between language, culture and power in the Middle East, writes Faisal Al Yafai Earlier this month Literary Hub, an American online magazine that publishes stories, reviews and news about the literary world, posted an extract from a travel book … Continued
SOURCE: ALARABIYA The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Yemen welcomed the UN report on Iran’s hostile interventions and support of the Houthi terrorist militias and called for confronting Tehran’s threats. They also welcomed the American position announced by the United States Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, and its condemnation of Iran’s hostile activities in … Continued
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