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Maha Salah

 

Items by Maha Salah

  • Mansaf

    Mansaf is the dish Jordan is most famous for. You will find it at every occasion or social gathering, be it a wedding, graduation, holidays, or just a plain old family gathering. There is really nothing more Jordanian than a platter of Mansaf! The dish has three main components: lamb,...

  • Turkish Kumpir

    Kumpir is the Turkish version of a baked potato. While Americans think of a baked potato as having butter, sour cream, chives and maybe even some bacon, and Brits think of a jacket potato being served with butter, cheese, beans and maybe even tuna and sweetcorn, the Turks have...

  • Maftool

    Maftool, derived from the Arabic verb fatala meaning to twist or roll, is a grain traditionally served in Palestine, as well as some parts of the Levant, made of whole wheat and bulgur that is traditionally hand-rolled. This is usually done with the help of a metal sieve-like tool....

  • Israel's arrest campaign against Palestinian parliamentarians

    Introduction According to international law and even the Israeli legal system, no one should be detained for their political beliefs. However, this is not the reality in the occupied Palestinian territories. Elected Palestinian political leaders are arrested and detained regularly as part of Israel’s effort to hinder Palestinian political...

  • Weighing up the Jordanian-Palestinian Confederation

    Introduction The idea of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation, which first emerged four decades ago, has resurfaced in recent months and is creating something of a controversy. The origins of the concept go back to 1972 when King Hussein of Jordan offered a plan to establish a federal united Arab kingdom...

  • Why are Palestinians voting with their feet in the Israeli elections?

    FACT SHEET Although the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel have the right to vote in the Israeli elections, many have chosen not to, due to the fact that Israeli politics have been overrun by anti-democratic parties that are preventing the voices of the Arab minority from being heard. Since...