There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People r…

- Annia Ciezadlo

The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghan…

- Annia Ciezadlo

You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, t…

- Annia Ciezadlo

I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private …

- Annia Ciezadlo

There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and …

- Annia Ciezadlo

But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything…

- Annia Ciezadlo

Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where it ha…

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I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western edi…

- Annia Ciezadlo

But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things…

- Annia Ciezadlo