So...yalla, bye
Bullets and botox. Dictators and divas. Warlords and wasta. Machiavellis and mafia. Guns, greed and God. Game of Thrones with RPGs. Human rights and hummus rights. Four marathons, 100 blogs, 10,000 tweets, 59 calls on Prime Ministers, 600+ long dinners, 52 graduation speeches, two #OneLebanon rock concerts, 43 grey hairs, a job swap with a domestic worker, a walk the length of the coast.
Jewish - and proud to be Tunisian
Jacob Lellouche sits in his chair, smoking one cigarette after another, while answering calls from three different cell phones. People are trying to get a hold of him to inquire about what will be on today’s menu at Jacob's Restaurant Mamie Lilly. Named after his 88-year old mother Lilly, who still gives instructions and observes cooking preparations in the kitchen, Restaurant Mamie Lilly is the only kosher restaurant in Tunisia.
Snapshot: Palestinian olive trees
“I’ve learned that the strength of the olive tree’s root system is such that it can regenerate itself in spite of being chopped, bulldozed or torched,” Dunne says to me during our interview at her studio in Cairo, just a ten-minute walk from Tahrir Square. Initially, she went to Palestine with clear intention: “I’d quietly photograph the beautiful agricultural landscapes—mainly olive and almond trees—that are nurtured by local Palestinian farmers, as opposed to the loudness of the walls, fences, tanks, checkpoints, and settlements,” she says.
