Recipes
Birzeit University
This site provides a rapid
orientation to Palestine or Palestinian cooking and recipes. Learn about
fast food, meze, and traditional main meals. The latter are usually
"meat- centered and excessive in quantity."
Many descriptions are provided, plus five recipes:
Musakhan, Ma’aluba, Quick and Easy Fuul (busy home cooks take note),
Humus, and Mtabel, another name for Baba Ghanough.
The site is maintained by the 5000-student
Birzeit University near Ramallah,
www.birzeit.edu/ramallah.
Click on What to Eat.
InHolyLand.net
This site provides 24 recipes, all apparently
Palestinian. Unfortunately the descriptions are truncated by a word or
so, but you can get the idea. The recipes themselves appear in full.
Take a look at Fattoush, which uses cut-up,
toasted pita bread in a salad. We have done this often, with pita or a
flour tortilla, and it makes a most interesting variation for various
salads.
In our family Kitty K. is familiar with
Mjaddara. This is made of lentils, rice, and golden onions, and she thinks it is quite marvelous.
www.inholyland.net.
Click on Palestinian recipes, or Um Samir Recipe Guide.
more recipes later . . .
Palestine, the Country and People
Arab Gateway
This huge portal aims "to
introduce non-Arabs to the Arabs and their culture."
For Palestine, or any Middle Eastern country,
founder Brian Whitaker has created a term-paper heaven. For the Middle
East in general, look up some two dozen different subjects:
Architecture, Cinema, History, Music, etc.
For each of 22 individual countries, including
Palestine, a section is provided with basic facts, travel, maps, media,
politics, economy. Information ranges from brief, through Library of
Congress exhaustive. Larger countries, such as Egypt, have in addition
their own Gateway listing for Architecture, Cinema, etc.
News is also provided for each country.
One section "A to Z" defines all
kinds of terms: Abbasids, fatwa, UNMOVIC, Levant, and so on.
The Palestine section contains a lengthy Who's
Who compiled by Dr. Glen Ranguala of Trinity College, Cambridge.
www.al-bab.com.
