Afghanistan Quote by Annia Ciezadlo

Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to…

— Annia Ciezadlo

In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's…

— Annia Ciezadlo

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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Annia Ciezadlo

The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade…

— Annia Ciezadlo

For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event.…

— Annia Ciezadlo

There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a whole, Baghdad…

— Annia Ciezadlo

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

— Annia Ciezadlo

But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People…

— Annia Ciezadlo

There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has…

— Annia Ciezadlo

We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of…

— Annia Ciezadlo