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meals ready to eat
Meals Ready to Eat
Middle-Eastern Beef Tartare with Bulgur, Yogurt, Mint & Walnut Muhammara
Post date:Inspired by his wife of Iraqi and Palestinian heritage, Chef Hollingsworth infuses this beef tartare dishes with the flavors of the Middle East.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
One Thousand & One Cultural Illusions: Orientalism in Coachella Valley
Post date:In the 1930s Indio coupled marketing their excellent date crop with Oriental fantasies borrowed from Hollywood and the short story collection “One Thousand and One Nights." High & Dry follows the evolution of this county's orientalism.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Syrian Boy Creates the Aleppo of His Dreams
Post date:Between 2012 and 2015, 10-year old Mohammed Qutaish created "Future Aleppo," a colorful, four-by-four foot model of Aleppo that spoke of the boy's hope for peace and prosperity in his war-torn province.
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World News
Democracy Now!
U.S. Under Pressure to Respond to Shiite Cleric Execution
Post date:The world looks to the U.S. for a reaction to Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 others.
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heat
Democracy Now!
Report: Middle East to See 'Intolerable' Heat by 2100
Post date:A new study has found that by the end of the century swaths of the Middle East may become so hot and humid, they will be "intolerable to humans."
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SoCal Connected
Silver Lake's Holyland Exhibition
Post date:Nestled in the heart of Silver Lake, the Holyland Exhibition is a treasure trove of artifacts and mementos from the Holy Land gathered by explorer Antonia Futterer, once rumored to have been the inspiration for the popular film "Indiana Jones."
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Holyland Exhibition: A Reflection of a Middle Eastern Dream
Post date:The Holyland Exhibition is a Silver Lake museum serving as a repository of items Australian adventurer Antonia Futterer amassed while travelling the Middle East searching for the Ark of the Covenant.
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religion
Explore
Religion in the Middle East
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Performance
Artbound
The Persians: Performing Aeschylus' Tragedy Today
Post date:The ancient Greek drama "Persians," staged at the Getty Villa's amphitheatre through Sept. 27, resonates with today's audiences tuned to the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
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Indio
Artbound
Harem Girls and Camel Races: Middle Eastern Fantasies in the Deserts of Southern California
Post date:The towns in the eastern side of the Coachella Valley have long utilized romanticized portrayals of the Middle East to shape views of their own desert backyard.
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SoCal Connected
Report from the Ground in Gaza, Rocket Offensives Continue
Post date:Our partners at CNN have special coverage of the ongoing attacks Gaza.
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SoCal Connected
The Roots of the Gaza Conflict and the Long-Term Prospects for Peace in the Middle East
Post date:Val Zavala talks to USC's Josh Lockman and UCLA's Russell Burgos about the growing conflict in the Middle East and what it means for the region.
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Indio
SoCal Focus
Many Queens at the Indio Date Festival
Post date:County Fairs in America usually make people think of late summer or early fall -- harvest of corn or apples, prize pigs like Wilbur in "Charlotte's Web" along with horses, cows, and chickens on display. Who would expect a county fair in February?
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interviews
The Public Note
Q&A: Author of 'Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World'
Post date:Maria Armoudian is a journalist and educator.
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SoCal Focus
Why Switching to Electric Vehicles Improves National Security, the Environment, and Our Economy
Post date:My decision to purchase an electric car was driven by a variety of reasons, but the simplest reason was this: The cost of filling up with gas is just too much. Not just the price at the pump, but also the cost to our future generations, our national s...
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RAND Corporation
Commentary
Meeting Comic Book Makers in Jordan
Post date:"He was severely wounded, he still has a scar on his neck. So the way this guy dealt with it was he started to give talks in high schools and other places about trying to improve, intercultural understanding and relations"
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RAND Corporation
Commentary
Can Governments Become More Democratic?
Post date:So, will these governments in the region take it to a second point, be able to enact these kinds of reforms without being overturned? Absolutely, they already started to do it.
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RAND Corporation
Commentary
Is Middle Eastern Democracy Flowering?
Post date:"The effect of, of the Iraq War has been very negative in terms of moving forward with political reform in this region." - RAND's Dalia Dassa Kaye
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RAND Corporation
Commentary
Democracy, Terrorism, Comic Books, and RAND
Post date:Dossa Kaye's lively remarks, and her and her colleagues, "More Freedom, Less Terror?" remain as timely as ever. That's particularly given the content of President Obama's Afghanistan speech and the debate that counterinsurgency / surge / withdrawal str...
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Commentary
Pep Prof A Fellow
Post date:Pepperdine Professor Robert Lloyd was recently named an Academic Fellow by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a conservative Washington D.C.-based org. (Motto: "Fighting Terrorism and Promoting Freedom Through Research, Communications, Educ...