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Something tasty was cooking on the hob, its vapour slurped up by the extractor fan and exhaled across our driveway. Amidst conversation the following day, our neighbour smiled. ‘Dinner smelt nice last night,’ he said, ‘I almost knocked the door and invited myself in.’ Just then that hadith hit me: ‘Do not oppress your neighbour [...]

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The Gaza Strip, home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians, will soon be without its most basic commodity: bread.

In Turkey, Eid al-Fitr is known as Seker Bayram, meaning sugar festival—and for good reason.

No food in the house this evening—only bread, yogurt and onions—but we won’t go to bed hungry.

I often make fun of the eating habits of the Eastern Hemşinli people, who reside in Artvin Province, Turkey — the group to which my wife belongs — but I am only joking. I make fun of their taste for Black Sea Cabbage, for every meal seems to involve this pale-leafed brassica, and I am [...]

So I keep going on about writing – writing, writing, writing – but there is actually another past-time fast taking over. All of my hobbies are time consuming. It isn’t that I enjoy hard work, indeed I am probably one of the laziest people you could ever meet, but I love to see the finished [...]