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Middle Eastern culture wars: The battle of the palates

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May 27, 2018
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Credit: The Kitchen Sisters

By James M. Dorsey

Nothing in a swath of land stretching from the Atlantic coast of Africa to China is undisputed.

Food is often emblematic of disputes over identity, history and political claims that underlie an arc of crisis wracked by ethnic and religious conflict; clamour for political, economic, social, national and minorit…

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