Watch Now: Contested Cuisines: Food and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
May 15, 2024
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Prof. Ilan Zvi Baron explores the role of food and culinary traditions in this intractable conflict, highlighting how dishes, cooking practices, and cooking books can serve as another domain of conflict.
Food is not just sustenance; it is a cultural artifact that reflects a community's history, identity, and aspirations. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where political tensions and military conflict have often overshadowed other aspects, food remains a powerful contested field.