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Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War

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by Annia Ciezadlo


  Select Bibliography

  FOR THIS SELECT and highly subjective bibliography, I have deliberately neglected the bestsellers—the Thomas Friedmans and Robert Fisks—in favor of less well-known but equally important books by writers like Sami Zubaida, Zuhair al-Jezairy, Fawwaz Traboulsi, and Hanan al-Shaykh. Likewise, those familiar with Middle Eastern food will already know Claudia Roden and Paula Wolfert; here are lesser-known cookbooks by Sonia Uvezian, Nawal Nasrallah, Malek Batal, and Barbara Abdeni Massaad. Sahtain.

  FICTION AND PERSONAL NARRATIVE

  Abinader, Elmaz. Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey from Lebanon. University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

  Awwad, Tawfiq Yusuf. Death in Beirut (Published in Arabic as Tawaheen Beirut or “Millstone Beirut”). Three Continents Press, 1984.

  Fassihi, Farnaz. Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq. Public Affairs, 2008.

  Hage, Rawi. De Niro’s Game. Harper Perennial, 2008.

  Jezairy, Zuhair al-. The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq. Saqi, 2009.

  Kadi, Joanna, ed. Food for Our Grandmothers: Writing by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists. South End Press, 1994.

  King, Alan. Twice Armed: An American Soldier’s Battle for Hearts and Minds in Iraq. Zenith Press, 2006.

  Maalouf, Amin. The Rock of Tanios. Abacus, 1995.

  Makdisi, Jean Said. Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir. Persea, 1999.

  Samman, Ghada. Beirut ’75. University of Arkansas Press, 1995.

  Shaykh, Hanan al-. Beirut Blues. Anchor, 1996.

  ———. The Locust and the Bird: My Mother’s Story. Pantheon Books, 2009.

  Stark, Freya. Baghdad Sketches. Marlboro Press, 1996.

  Yahia, Mona. When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad. Peter Halban, 2000.

  HISTORY AND NONFICTION

  A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City. The Museum of the City of New York/Syracuse University Press, 2002.

  Aburish, Saïd K. Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge. Bloomsbury, 2000.

  ———. The St. George Hotel Bar. Bloomsbury, 1989.

  Ajami, Fouad. The Vanished Imam: Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon. Cornell University Press, 1992.

  Badre, Leila. “Post-war Beirut City Centre: A Large Open-Air Museum.” Study Series 9, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Archaeology and History, 2001.

  Batatu, Hanna. The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq’s Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba’thists, and Free Officers. Saqi, 2004.

  Blanford, Nicholas. Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East. I.B. Tauris, 2006.

  Bou Akar, Hiba. Displacement, Politics, and Governance: Access to Low-Income Housing in a Beirut Suburb (bachelor in architecture). American University of Beirut, 2000.

  Bowen, Jr., Stuart W. Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience (Draft Document). Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, February 2, 2009.

  Cockburn, Andrew and Patrick. Out of the Ashes. HarperCollins, 1999.

  Damrosch, David. The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh. Henry Holt, 2006.

  Eisenstadt, Lt. Col Michael. “Iraq: Tribal Engagement Lessons Learned,” Military Review, September–October 2006.

  Goitein, Shlomo. Studies in Islamic History and Institutions. Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1966.

  Ibn Khaldun, Abdurahman. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. N. J. Dawood, ed., Franz Rosenthal, trans. Princeton University Press, 2004.

  Irwin, Robert. Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature. Anchor Books, 2002.

  Jabar, Faleh A. The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq. Saqi, 2003.

  Jahiz, Abu ‘Uthman ‘Amr ibn Bahr al-. Jim Colville, trans. Avarice and the Avaricious (kitab al-bukhala’). Kegan Paul International, 1999.

  ———. R. B. Serjeant, trans. The Book of Misers: A Translation of al-Bukhala. Garnet Publishing Limited, 1997.

  Johnson, Michael. All Honourable Men: The Social Origins of War in Lebanon. I.B. Tauris (in association with the Centre of Lebanese Studies), 2001.

  Karsh, Efraim, and Rory Miller, “Freya Stark in America: Orientalism, Antisemitism and Political Propaganda,” Journal of Contemporary History vol. 39, no. 3 (July 2004).

  Kassir, Samir. Histoire de Beyrouth. Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2003.

  Kennedy, Philip F. “Dangling Locks and Babel Eyes: A Biographical Sketch of Abu Nuwas.” From Abu Nuwas: A Genius of Poetry. Makers of the Muslim World Series. Oneworld Publications, 2007.

  Khalaf, Samir. Heart of Beirut: Reclaiming the Bourj. Saqi, 2006.

  Khalil, Samir al- (aka Kanan Makiya). The Monument: Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq. Andre Deutsch, 1991.

  Khater, Akram Fouad. Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870–1920. University of California Press, 2001.

  Kovacs, Maureen Gallery, trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Stanford University Press, 1989.

  Lapidus, Ira M. A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

  Lassner, Jacob. The Topography of Baghdad in the Early Middle Ages: Text and Studies. Wayne State University Press, 1970.

  Mas’udi, Ali al-. Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone, trans., ed. The Meadows of Gold: The Abbasids. Kegan Paul International, 1989.

  Mitchell, Stephen. Gilgamesh: A New English Version. Free Press, 2004.

  Salibi, Kamal. A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered. University of California Press, 1990.

  Sandars, N. K., trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Penguin Books, 1972.

  Teixeira, Pedro. The Travels of Pedro Teixeira, 1609. London: The Hakluyt Society, MDCCCCII.

  Thomas, Bertram. Alarms and Excursions in Arabia. Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.

  Thompson, Elizabeth. Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. Columbia University Press, 2000.

  Tripp, Charles. A History of Iraq, Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

  FOOD

  Appadurai, Arjun. “How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 30, no. 1 (January 1988), pp. 3–24, Cambridge University Press.

  Baghdadi, Muhammad al-. Charles Perry, trans. A Baghdad Cookery Book. Prospect Books, 2005.

  Batal, Malek, ed. The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes from Rural Lebanon. American University of Beirut Press, 2008.

  Bottéro, Jean “The Culinary Tablets at Yale,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 107, no. 1 (January—March 1987), pp. 11–19.

  ———. “The Most Ancient Recipes of All,” from Patterns of Everyday Life. David Waines, ed. The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, vol. 10. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2002.

  ———. The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

  Collingham, Lizzie. Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors. Oxford University Press USA, 2006.

  Ellison, Rosemary. “Methods of Food Preparation in Mesopotamia (c. 3000–600 BC).” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 27, no. 1 (1984), pp. 89–98.

  Flandrin, Jean-Louis, and Massimo Montanari, eds. Food: A Culinary History, English edition by Albert Sonnenfeld (Penguin Books: 2000/First published by Columbia University Press, 1999).

  Goody, Jack. Food and Love: A Cultural History of East and West. Verso, 1998.

  Hattox, Ralph S. Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East. University of Washington Press, 1985.

  Homan, Michael M. “Beer and Its Drinkers: An Ancient near Eastern Love Story.” Near Eastern Archaeology, vol. 67, no. 2 (June 2004), pp. 84–95.

  Jones, Martin. Feast: Why Humans Share Food. Oxford University Press, 2007.

  Karim, Kay. Iraqi Family Cookbook
: From Mosul to America. Iraqi Family Cookbook, LLC, 2006.

  Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History. Walker and Co., 2002.

  Limet, Henri. “The Cuisine of Ancient Sumer.” The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 50, no. 3 (September 1987).

  Manning, Richard. Against the Grain: How Agriculture has Hijacked Civilization. North Point Press, 2005.

  Mardam-Bey, Farouk. Ziryab: Authentic Arab Cuisine. Ici La Press, 2002.

  Massaad, Barbara Abdeni. Man’oushe: Inside the Street Corner Lebanese Bakery. Alarm Editions, 2005.

  ———. Mouneh: Preserving Foods for the Lebanese Pantry. Self-published, 2010.

  Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Penguin Books, 1985.

  Nasrallah, Nawal. Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and History of the Iraqi Cuisine. 1stbooks, 2003, 2004.

  ———. Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens. Brill, 2010.

  Potts, Daniel. “On Salt and Salt Gathering in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 27, no. 3 (1984), pp. 225–271.

  Symons, Michael. A History of Cooks and Cooking. Illinois University Press, 2004.

  Uvezian, Sonia. Recipes and Remembrances from an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen. The Siamanto Press, 1999.

  van Gelder, Geert Jan. God’s Banquet: Food in Classical Arabic Literature. Diane Publishing Co, 2000.

  Waines, David. “Cereals, Bread and Society: An Essay on the Staff of Life in Medieval Iraq.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 30, no. 3 (1987), pp. 255–285.

  Wright, Clifford. A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean, from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More Than 500 Recipes. William Morrow and Company, 1999.

  Yazbeck, Chérine. The Rural Taste of Lebanon: A Food Heritage Trail. Self-published, 2009.

  Zubaida, Sami, and Richard Tapper, eds. A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2000.

  Zurayk, Rami, and Sami Abdul Rahman. From ‘Akkar to ‘Amel: Lebanon’s Slow Food Trail. Slow Food Beirut, 2008.

  FOOD WEBSITES

  Accad, Joumana. “Taste of Beirut: Lebanese Food Recipes for Home Cooking,” http://www.tasteofbeirut.com.

  Karam Khayat, Marie, and Margaret Clark Keatinge. “Food from the Arab World, 1959,” http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/600/640/641/khayat/

  Massaad, Barbara Abdeni. “My Culinary Journey Through Lebanon.” http://my culinaryjourneythroughlebanon.blogspot.com/

  Riverbend. “Is Something Burning?” http://iraqrecipes.blogspot.com/

  Somekh, Rachel. “Recipes by Rachel: The Jewish-Iraqi Cooking of Rachel Somekh.” http://www. recipesbyrachel.com.

  Index

  abayas, 92, 127, 128, 131, 134, 137, 140, 161, 222

  Abbasid caliphate, 137, 155–56, 276, 280, 319

  Abdelghanim (grocer), 309, 310

  Abdullah (professor), 209–10, 316

  Abel, 59

  Abu Abed, 109

  Abu Ghraib prison scandal, 112, 139, 147, 149

  Abu Hadi (Bassam Badran), 179–81, 301, 312–13, 335–39

  Abu Hassane, 36–39, 47, 48–49, 188, 194–208, 229

  Abu Hassan restaurant, 260, 281, 284, 286, 288

  Abu Hussein, 179, 253

  Abu Ibrahim (Mohamad Ali Sadi Gul), 181–82, 320

  Abu Nuwas, 94–96, 98

  Abu Nuwas Street, 94–98, 103–4, 107, 122, 123, 143, 318

  Abu Rifaat, 108–9, 145–49, 154, 162, 169, 316, 319

  Abu Shadi, 288–89

  Abu Zeinab, 90, 99, 110, 133, 144, 153, 162

  Adessa (friend), 266, 310, 321

  Adnan (driver), 144

  Afghanistan, 26–28, 300, 316

  Afghan Kebab House, 26–27, 28, 30, 31–32

  agriculture, 59–60, 73, 77, 78, 156, 182, 218–20, 231–32

  Ain al-Mreiseh, 313

  Ainata, Lebanon, 270–71

  akil nafis, 217

  Akkadians, 73, 154

  al-Akhbar, 301–2

  al-Amin, 94

  Al-Balad restaurant, 186

  albóndigas, 156

  Albright, Madeleine, 78–79

  al-bunduqieh, 156

  alcohol, 94–95, 160, 214–15, 225, 227, 317, 318, 319

  al-Dour, Iraq, 120

  Alexandria, Egypt, 227

  Aley, Lebanon, 207–8

  Al-Hayat, 100, 170

  al-hijab al-shaitany, 128

  Al-Hilwa di Cou Cou, 44

  Al-Hurra television, 142, 162

  Ali, 286

  Ali (editor/poet), 102, 142, 161

  Ali Babas, 56, 57, 61

  Ali Fahs, 219–20, 263–65, 267

  Al-Jazeera television, 48, 169, 260

  Al-Jezairy, Zuhair, 187

  Al-Manar television station, 246

  al-Mutanabbi (poet), 105

  Al-Najeen, 82, 105, 108, 144

  al-Qaeda, 29, 232–33

  Al-Rasheed Theater, 82

  Alwiya Club, 88

  Amal, Dr., 137, 139, 159, 160–61

  Amal (neighbor), 31

  Amal militia, 18, 191, 201–2, 213, 250, 285

  American University of Beirut (AUB), 173, 231, 282, 288, 310

  Amiram (friend), 316

  Amman, Jordan, 51, 55–57, 169

  Amneh, Maher, 281, 282

  Anbar Province, Iraq, 55, 126–31

  Andalus Hotel, 122, 123, 126, 132, 144, 151

  Animal Farm (Orwell), 106

  An-Nahar, 211

  Ansari, Sheikh Khidayer al-, 129–31

  Aoun, Michel, 280, 299–300

  Apicius, 70–71

  apple butter, 67

  apples, 231–32

  Arabian Nights, 55, 94, 223

  Arabic language, 21, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43, 52, 58, 60–61, 81, 91, 100, 106, 107, 108–9, 118, 119, 131, 134, 156, 177, 179, 182, 186, 193, 195, 196, 200, 203, 214, 223, 227, 228, 229, 230, 233–34, 241, 255, 261, 265, 268, 276, 285, 316, 321

  Arab League, 48

  Arab Revolt, 51, 107

  Arabs, 34–35, 66, 76–77, 111, 141, 143, 154, 156, 315, 318

  Arab Tribes of the Baghdad Wilayat, 111

  arak, 34, 44–45, 93, 101

  Arasat neighborhood, 115

  Aristophanes, 161

  Aristotle, 160–61

  arous, 234

  Aruru, 69

  Ashrafieh neighborhood, 221–22

  Ashura (religious observance), 127, 272

  ashura (pudding), 256

  Ashurbanipal, 81

  Ashurnasirpal, 154

  Askari Shrine, 223

  Assad, Bashar al-, 307

  Assad family, 176

  Assyrians, 71, 154, 157

  avocados, 181

  Awada, Muhammad, 265

  Awlad Haratina (Mahfouz), 35

  Awwad, Tawfiq Yusuf, 167

  Baalbek Street, 178

  Baath Party, 76–77, 88, 97, 112, 116, 120, 136, 137, 141, 213, 263

  baba ghanouj, 14, 157, 215, 216, 315

  Bab Idriss, 173

  Babylonians, 93

  badawah (bedouinism), 76

  Baghdad:

  ancient culture of, 94–97

  booksellers in, 105–7

  cafés in, 107–10, 144–46

  checkpoints in, 122–23, 144

  cosmopolitanism of, 62–63, 76, 82–83, 94–97, 105–10, 146–47, 154, 156

  crime rate in, 117, 144–45

  foreign contractors in, 63, 122, 123–25

  Green Zone in, 64, 110, 114, 115, 123, 127, 162

  history of, 74–83, 94–97

  hotels of, 84–89, 100, 122–25, 144, 149, 153, 154, 158, 169

  intellectual life of, 94–97, 105–10, 146–47

  medieval period of, 94–95

  neighborhoods of, 62, 64, 105–10

  pollution in, 97–98

  power outages in, 118–19, 122

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bsp; Red Zone in, 64, 114

  restaurants in, 64–67, 68, 147–49, 154, 156–57

  security situation in, 50–51, 64, 110, 114

  terrorist attacks in, 102–3, 104, 122, 123, 174, 176

  U.S. occupation of, 64, 110, 114, 115, 122–23, 124, 127, 132–49, 162

  Baghdad University, 76, 87

  Bahi (demonstrator), 281–82, 283, 284

  bakeries, 85, 103, 243–44, 251–52, 288–89, 305, 308

  baklava, 15, 17

  balila, 180

  Balsam (neighbor), 305

  bamieh, 217–18

  banadura shamee (“Damascene tomatoes”), 148

  banana cream pie, 163–64, 165

  bananas, 74, 163–64, 165

  Bang & Olufsen store, 174

  banjan burani, 26

  baqqals, 97

  Barbara (friend), 243

  Barbarella Amusement Center, 172

  Barbar restaurants, 178–79

  barbel, 93

  Bardo bar, 310–11

  bargaining, 196–97

  barley, 59, 72, 102

  Barmakids, 276

  Baromètre café, 34, 43, 101, 171, 193, 263, 320

  Barwari, Nisrine, 135

  Basim (sculptor), 108

  Basra, Iraq, 85, 93, 94, 108, 137

  batata wa bayd mfarakeh, 266–69, 291, 331–32

  Batatu, Hanna, 116

  Batoul (Bazzi relative), 40, 41, 249, 272, 273

  Bauhaus, 76

  Bazzi, Ahmad, 18, 20, 31, 36, 208

  Bazzi, Hanan, 18, 31, 33, 43, 100, 193, 200, 208, 256–59, 310

  Bazzi, Hassan, 18, 31, 200–201, 208, 261–62, 295

  Bazzi, Hassane, 18, 21, 203–4, 208

  Bazzi, Mohamad:

  author’s dating of, 11–14, 17, 25, 26–27, 28, 30–32

  author’s marriage to, 35–36, 46–47, 48, 50–52, 87–88, 144, 152–53, 169–70, 194–98, 212–14, 221, 223, 228, 235, 237, 247–48, 257, 262–63, 293, 294–95, 297–98, 299, 311–12, 316

  in Baghdad, 46, 47, 55–75, 84–89, 90, 100–101, 113–14, 119, 122, 126, 144, 151–53, 159, 161, 162–65, 176, 183, 194, 224, 297

 

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