Middle Eastern Food and the Making of an Israeli National Cuisine

Middle Eastern Food and the Making of an Israeli National Cuisine

By Dr. Ari Ariel

Tuesday, March 3 at 1:00 PM
808 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 109

Ari Ariel is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Iowa. He has a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies from Columbia University and a diploma in Classical Culinary Arts from the French Culinary Institute (now the International Culinary Center). He is the author of Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Brill, 2014). His interests include culinary history, foodways, ethnic and national identity, and migration.