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Biting Into the Past: Re-creating Gary Nabhan’s Albóndigas Meatball Recipe
What do lamb, pomegranate and a Silk Road secret share? A meatball with a hidden past.
Restoration Uncovers Beauty of Georgia’s Hidden Wooden Mosques
Until recently few outsiders knew the wooden mosques dotting the highlands of Georgia existed, leaving many of them to deteriorate. The rediscovery of the architectural gems has sparked a movement for their preservation.
Smorgasbords of Andalusi and Mahgribi Dishes, a Conversation With Food Historian and Author Nawal Nasrallah
In Smorgasbords of Andalusi and Mahgribi Dishes, Arab food historian Nawal Nasrallah breathes new life into an anonymously compiled 13th-century cookbook.
Al Sadu Textile Tradition Weaves Stories of Culture and Identity
Across the Arabian Gulf, the traditional weaving craft records social heritage.
Family Secret: The Mystery of North Macedonia’s Ohrid Pearls
Artisans are preserving the elusive technique behind these pearls—handmade from a fish, not an oyster—in a town of Slavic, Byzantine and Ottomon influences.
Meet Sculptor Marie Khouri, Who Turns Arabic Calligraphy Into 3D Art
Vancouver-based artist Marie Khouri turns Arabic calligraphy into a 3D examination of love in Baheb, on view at the Arab World Institute in Paris.
Recipe for Fennel and Potato Biryani
Biryani is a whole and very elaborate genre of rice dishes, not be confused with pulao or pilaf.
Orion Through a 3D-Printed Telescope
With his homemade telescope, Astrophotographer Zubuyer Kaolin brings the Orion Nebula close to home.
Trace Moruga Hill Rice's Cultural Path to Trinidad
Moruga hill rice is a nutritious dry-land red rice grown in Trinidad whose history dates to Merikin settlers.
Learning Center Resource: For the Teacher's Desk
Five Classroom Activities From AramcoWorld to Build Empathy
Help students build empathy and community for the academic year with AramcoWorld's stories and Learning Center lessons.
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Featured Videos
Building a Priogue - Going Priogue, Feeding a Nation
As long as a minibus and as thing as a canoe, curved like a banana and painted a rainbow of hues, the handbuilt wooden priogue remains the watercraft of choice among half a million people who support the artisanal fishing industry along the coast of Senegal in West Africa. Pirogues were originallly designed narrow for easier paddling, and their long, curved keels help them glide into surf and swell, where every morning hundreds of crews cast nets with the hopes of a good day's catch.
How to make an anthotype
In this video, photographer Rebecca Marshall teaches you how to make your own anthotype.
Anthotypes are unique impressions made with nature's own photosenstive pigments from petals, berries and in this case, fig leaves.
Discover the story "Can Fig Trees Help us Adapt to a Changing Climate?" here.
Video by Rebecca Marshall
An Artist Threads Portugal's Multilayered Heritage
For more than two decades Sara Domingos has produced a mixed-media collection infusing Portugal's Islamic heritage into her work. Her art is made of a variety of materials and methods, from acrylic and oil paints to embroidery and calcography, a form of artistic printmaking that in her case uses different forms of stamps. (Video by Tara Todras-Whitehill and Jack Zahora)
Percussionist Elias Aboud - Berlin Cultural Jam
Syria-born percussionist Elias Aboud completed his musical education at Berlin’s Barenboim-Said Akademie in 2013 and formed the Ramal Ensemble with three fellow Syrian musicians in Berlin. They not only play traditional pieces, he says, but also compose “works that bring the sophisticated polyrhythmic sound of Arab music to Western chamber ensembles, experimenting with classic tunes from both traditions.”
A musical wave has been swelling for a decade in the German capital, which one local analyst now calls “the city of choice for a new generation of cultural talent from the Middle East and North Africa”—part of the greater demographic shift that has made people of Arab backgrounds Berlin’s fourth-largest ethnic-identity group. In street jams, clubs, studios, concert halls and online, new mixes of musicians are blending notes and ideas into genre-bending, transcultural fusions.
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