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Ethnobotanical knowledge from Lebanon
To listen to the stories click on the book cover للأستماع الى السوالف انقر الغلاف To order from Amazon go to http://bit.ly/cTacKV
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A source on food, farming and rural society
Land - suheir hammad
his approach
to love he said
was that of a farmer
most love like
hunters and like
hunters most kill
what they desire
he tills
soil through toes
nose in the wet
earth he waits
prays to the gods
and slowly harvests
thankful
to love he said
was that of a farmer
most love like
hunters and like
hunters most kill
what they desire
he tills
soil through toes
nose in the wet
earth he waits
prays to the gods
and slowly harvests
thankful
My new book: Lebanon 2006, a War Diary
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My book: Plants and People
Ethnobotanical knowledge from Lebanon
My book: Tales of the Badia سوالف البادية
To listen to the stories click on the book cover للأستماع الى السوالف انقر الغلاف To order from Amazon go to http://bit.ly/cTacKV
My book: From `Akkar to `Amel: Lebanon's Slow Food Trail
For mail orders in the US write to letters@kitchenartsandletters.com
To order "From `Akkar to `Amel" in the US by email:
letters@kitchenartsandletters.com
or if you live in NYC visit Kitchen Arts & Letters, a bookstore devoted exclusively to food and wine, 1435 Lexington Avenue. New York, NY 10128
My book on Research for Development
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In times of political crisis in Lebanon and the region, this blog will carry news updates and analysis
Blog Archive
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2007
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June
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- deserting deserts
- Soya want to save the world?
- Charles ousted from supermarket
- Consumerism and imperialism
- Isolate Syria-but after the potato harvest please
- Say farewell to Lebanese halloum
- Now you know what you eat
- Grain of wisdom
- The cherry on the Chebaa cake
- Your trade or your life!
- Rice crackers
- No milk? we'll have yogurt instead
- Still bandits
- Ginger
- Sterilizing culture
- Deserting China
- The children of Aytaroun
- Darfur: the climate did it!
- Dark roast
- The Hungry Arab
- Literature you could eat
- Cotton club
- O Lebanese, if only you knew what you eat
- Corporate bread
- ...and he should know!
- Islamists' new ally: global warming
- Mendicity as a strategy for development
- US penetrates the Middle East
- China's biofuel: Pig Problem
- Transparency Inc.
- More to Brazil than the carnival
- Biofuels again
- What's so Arab about this trade zone?
- Promoting a healthy diet among the poor
- Food in distress
- Subsidizing the rich
- GMOs move into the EU: WTO again
- Biofuel or Food? A difficult choice
- One ostrich, many poor
- Court Marshall
- Turkish roses
- Got milk?
- Sizzling summer
- Can it get more callous than this?
- Aid is good for poverty: it maintains it
- Capitalism and democracy: Just like gin and tonic?
- Organic class system
- Food comes from...the supermarket
- Do I really need to comment?
- Some innocent questions about trade in Lebanon
- Food and class
- Almost Organic
- Lebanon rose
- The one thing the Lebanese agree on
- World Bank: We said Free Trade, not Free People!
- The day Damascus rose
- Left behind
- Broken promises: good title for a new song, bob!
- Spiritual heritage
- Haddadamus' profecy
- Go Mango
- Syria: low yields expected
- Syria's farming
- Soybean prices increase: cherchez le biofuel
- Sweet Dubai
- Oil spill trial
- Deconstructing Silent Spring
- A useful reminder in these troubled times
- Free Trade Agreements: dump subsidized dairy products
- Iran bans GMOs
- Black humor
- Like poisonous organisms, food additives are color...
- Dont listen to what they say, look at what they do
- Unholy water alliance
- Poor of Lebanon, rejoice! The foes agree on your fate
- Israelis to bloom Nigerian desert
- India's hunger
- Organic resistance
- Sales drop
- My friend gets beaten by the Lebanese police
- For my personal record
- Half are poor
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About Me
- Rami Zurayk
- Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon
- Opinions on this blog are expressed personally and do not necessarily represent the opinions of any institution I may be affiliated with.
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