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Middle East

War and Peace

Chapter 5: Departures and Arrivals

War and Peace

Recipe: Halawet El Jibn (Sweet Cheese Rolls)

Halawet El Jibn (Sweet Cheese Rolls) Rolls of soft, sweet cheese dough get stuffed with clotted cream and...

May 01, 2016
syrian cream puffs
Middle East

Recipe: Warbat bil ishta (Syrian sweet cream puffs)

A huge range of desserts from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Jordan use sweet cream, or ishta, whether...

May 01, 2016
Customers eat at Salloura in Istanbul. (Photo by Joris van Gennip/GroundTruth)
Middle East

Chapter 4: Betrayal

By Dalia Mortada and Lauren Bohn “It is betrayal,” As’ad Salloura declared from behind his giant wooden desk...

May 01, 2016
Some of Salloura's signature sweets are visible through the shop window. (Photo by Joris van Gennip/GroundTruth)
Middle East

Chapter 3: Deadlines

By Dalia Mortada and Lauren Bohn It was a hot, humid June in Istanbul. A deadline hovered over...

May 01, 2016
War and Peace

Hard Lessons: Afghan schools fear rising violence

Miriam, an 11-year-old from Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, believes she and her family are lucky to have escaped...

Apr 19, 2016
Middle East

Chapter 2: Into the Promised Land

By Dalia Mortada and Lauren Bohn Rashed wandered aimlessly in the dark, autumn leaves and twigs crunching under...

Apr 05, 2016
Salloura is a 150-year-old dessert institution that uprooted to Istanbul from the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo in 2014. (Photo by Joris van Gennip/GroundTruth)
Middle East

Chapter 1: Out of Syria

By Dalia Mortada and Lauren Bohn Tucked away in an alley in Istanbul’s Aksaray neighborhood, Şirket Alahdab is...

Mar 16, 2016
Middle East

Recipe: Saffarjaliyya (Aleppo Quince and Lamb Stew)

Adapted from Anissa Helou’s Levant: Recipes and Memories from the Middle East. Serves 6. Saffarjaliyya, a tangy stew...

Mar 16, 2016
syrian food
Middle East

GroundTruth Fellows Chat Syrian Food on Facebook: Ask them anything!

GroundTruth Middle East Reporting Fellow Dalia Mortada joined PRI's The World for a Facebook chat about the war...

Mar 16, 2016
syrian food
Middle East

Syrian food is the connection to my family’s homeland

My parents are from Syria. My grandparents are from Syria. My Syrian heritage stretches back centuries. But I...

Mar 15, 2016
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