This month we’re featuring FreeRice.com. Play a game to increase your vocabulary, and with each correct answer, you are making a donation to the UN World...
We were fortunate to be invited to a cocktail reception in San Francisco featuring food and wine from the Province of Salerno. Award-winning writer and broadcaster...
Check out our new cooking video page. And you can now listen to hundreds of high quality mp3 clips on our updated music page. We would...
Susan Ji-Young Park. She and famous Algerian Chef Farid Zadi (who we’ll be featuring next month) are on the board of Slow Food Pan-Arab, a division...
This month, among the dozens of new recipes you’ll find, we’re featuring those of Jamie Oliver, who has a fresh approach to Middle Eastern cooking. This...
By popular demand, there are two new tracks from Amr Diab for you to sample this month. Hikayat and the title track from his latest hit...
We had the great pleasure of spending New Year’s Eve at the Flea Street Café, one of five wonderful restaurants founded by the gifted Jesse Ziff...
Now do something for someone else. With just a click of your mouse, sponsors of the Hunger Site will donate food to a person in need....
This month, we’re featuring authentic recipes from Saveur magazine. Their staff travels the world, exploring a myriad of cuisines. They share not only recipes, tools and...
Friend, talented artist, and renouned cookbook author, Linda Dalal Sawaya, wrote recently asking how she could locate content featured here in years past. This prompted us...
With just a click of your mouse, sponsors of the Hunger Site will donate food to a person in need. They will also provide you with...
Spring is here! The lemon trees are heavy with fruit, herbs are tender and abundant. Whether you grow your own or frequent your local farmer’s market,...
The lovely and talented Linda Dalal Sawaya has released a newly revised and expanded 4th edition of her wonderful Alice’s Kitchen: My Grandmother Dalal & Mother...
Our thanks to Greg, the wonderful moderator of our food forum, for allowing us to post his own special recipe for beef shawarma and his quick...
At your request, this month’s featured track is “Ghani” by Mustafa Amar. You’ll find this, and all of Mustafa’s other great CDs at Aramusic.com.
We are honored to have been granted an exclusive interview with Anne Thomas Soffee, author of, “Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love“....
At your request, this month’s featured track is “Nuqtah AlSatter” (also known as “Habaitak”) by Najwa Karam. You’ll find this, and all of Najwa’s other wonderful...
Register to become a member of our forum by July 4th and receive a free e-cookbook! Share recipes and make friends all over the world! In...
This month we’ve added restaurant recipes contributed by Amani, a member of our forum. Enjoy fabulous dishes like Fatteh from the Nicholas Restaurant in Portland, Oregon;...
Peninsula Habitat for Humanity builds affordable ownership housing in partnership with low-income, working families. See how you can help! If you want to find real estate...
Our message board just turned one month old! We invite you to post your recipes, requests, local events, favorite websites — or just drop by and...
At your request, this month’s featured track is “El Alem Alla” by Amr Diab. The album is available at Aramusic, at the lowest price we’ve found...
We’ve added recipes from Mourad Mazouz’s The Momo Cookbook and Nancy Harmon Jenkins’ The Essential Mediterranean. Our favorite is Red Peppers Preserved in Olive Oil. Enjoy...
Thousands of women around the world are survivors of war and violence. They’ve lost their homes, their security, and their livelihoods. Women for Women International helps...
This month, we have more recipes, more music and our new message board! We invite you to post your recipes, requests, local events, favorite websites —...
We loved San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Olivia Wu’s wonderful article about California Olive Oils. It includes tips on how to match an oil to a...
The original content on this page has been removed from the website. We are now focused on our new brand and content. Is it time to...
Traditional baba ghanoush requires roasting an eggplant for 30 to 40 minutes. In this microwave version developed by popular San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Tara Duggan,...
With just a click of your mouse, sponsors of the Hunger Site will donate food to a person in need. They will also provide you with...
Find the NEW you with online pilates classes that can help shape your life and transform your body. It’s hard to find time to go to...
The Right to a Home and a Homeland Global Campaign is a coordinated, international movement to rebuild Palestinian homes and Middle East peace through strategic Palestinian...
Traditional baba ghanoush requires roasting an eggplant for 30 to 40 minutes. In this microwave version developed by popular San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Tara Duggan,...
July 23, 1974 – July 29, 2003 We are sad to report that after an incredibly courageous battle, Maha Khalaf passed away on Tuesday, July 29th....
In upcoming months, we plan to add Arabic script and sound to our Arabic name pages. If you are a native speaker and are interested in...
Of the 600 recipes included on this site, our favorites come from readers like you. This month we are featuring Paul Whitehead’s fabulous Ferakh bil Hummus...
Doctors still urgently seek a bone marrow donor for Maha Khalaf. There are still many drives scheduled for the month of June. There are also testing...
It’s time to educate yourself on one of the most devastating diseases that you may not have ever heard of before today. Pilonidal disease is a...
Doctors are still urgently seeking a bone marrow donor for Maha Khalaf. There are upcoming drives in Walnut and Monterey Park, and testing locations worldwide. You...
You’ll notice sound is now being added to the Arabic names and phrases pages! The voice behind those sound clips belongs to Sultan Al-Yahya, who generously...
This month we’re delighted to present Zeynep Gunal’s family recipe for Turkish Hummus. Zeynep works as an Technical Architect in The Netherlands, and judging by this...
With just a click of your mouse, sponsors of the Hunger Site will donate food to a person in need. They will also provide you with...
Struggling to keep up with the situation in the Middle East? The headlines our news page are updated every 30 minutes. Our thoughts are with the...
In upcoming months, we plan to add several great new features to the site. Top of the list: including Arabic script and sound on our Arabic...
Maha is out of the hospital and doing well after undergoing high-dose chemotherapy. She is again in stable condition, with her doctors watching her closely; they...
In February, we added a shopping page, where you’ll find many middle eastern items for auction and for sale. For March, our music page features two...
Maha Khalaf has been undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of lymphoma. Her next stage of treatment is to undergo a bone marrow transplant and she...
On September 1, 2001, the United States Postal Services expanded its Holiday Celebrations Series by issuing a stamp honoring the Muslim holiday Eid. The Eid stamp...
This month’s site update comes a little late due to the amount of time spent preparing to launch a new website. The new site, which will...
The most frequent question received on this site is, “What kind of name is Christina Al-Sudairy?” Well, it’s the result of having an American mother and...
We hope you will be happy with this months site update, including many new recipes. If you’ve submitted a recipe in the last six weeks or...
We are making efforts to expand our Arabic language section. This month, we’re introducing a brand new page, Islamic Words & Phrases. Expect this page to...
Ever dream of waking up on a beach or living within minutes of one? That’s what makes South Florida such a desirable place to live. Here...
Ramadan Mubarak! This month, we’d like to thank our friend Megan Secatore, your guide to Greek/Middle Eastern Cuisine at About.com, for featuring us in her very...
This month, we’d like to thank our friends at Tamara’s Kitchen — for the very favorable review in their newsletter about our middle eastern recipes. Thanks...
Popular Demand is our section dedicated to helping writers and website owners, just like you, with understanding what helps market your content in the new day...
We’ve updated our music page. The June featured track is “Nour El Ain” by Amr Diab. Take a listen — then buy the cd! If you’ve...
Check out all the latest news from the industry. Have you seen our music page? It’s a directory of middle eastern music, which we expect to...
Thanks to a live webfeed from moreover.com, we can now provide up-to-date news stories from the middle east. And visit our new music page! It’s a...