Published in Vittles
Stone and Seed
Mira Mattar on starvation as a tool of genocide in Gaza
Starving Palestine
Israeli colonialism and the struggle for food sovereignty in Masafer Yatta, by Manal Shqair
When Food Doesn’t Taste Like Home
How occupation and war have severed the people of Gaza from their culinary history, by Doha Kahlout (translated by Katharine Halls).
Read a version of this essay in Arabic here.
Sowing Solidarity: How Lebanon’s Wineries Remain Rooted
Farrah Berrou writes about the delicate balance between loss and hope in southern Lebanon’s wine country.
Redefining the food film: A Glass of Juice in Palestine
NA Mansour on the representation of food in Palestinian cinema.
Writing in Other Publications
Hunger Makes Life Hell for Gaza’s Journalists – Eman Hillis, Electronic Intifada (2025)
My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza – Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker (2025)
Cooking Palestinian Food: On Indigenous Herbs, Craft, and Community – Fadi Kattan and Karim Kattan, The Funambulist (2020)
I Come From There – a substack by Lama Obeid
Back Home – a substack by Amanny Ahmad
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