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The Salon Series conversation with Anny Gaul.

Join CCAS for a book talk with Anny Gaul, Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies (University of Maryland), featuring her newly published book Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato...

How an ordinary ingredient became a symbol of collective complaint.

This bibliography collates the rich body of writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge (scholarly and otherwise) produced about Palestinian foodways — broadly conceived to include agri...

Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.

The tomato was not used in Egyptian cooking until the 19th century—today it is a staple of the cuisine.

My book Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato is now available to preorder. For each book ordered and each library request reported here between now and the book’s publi…

U.S. Park Police have initiated at least 10 car chases in the past three weeks as part of President Donald Trump’s D.C. surge, court records show.

Thank you so much for preordering Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato by Anny Gaul. Note: submitting a patron request to your public or institutional library counts as a preo...

Much of the history of the tomato in Egypt — the subject of Nile Nightshade, my forthcoming book — is oriented north and east. The tomato linked Turkey and Egypt through Ottoman cuisine’s embrace o…

Thank you so much for preordering Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato by Anny Gaul. Note: submitting a patron request to your public or institutional library counts as a preo...

An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato Volume 87

Israel uprooted 10,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir during a three-day siege of the West Bank Palestinian village. The Israeli army stated that uprooting the trees was intended to “deter” village…