There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write… — Annia Ciezadlo Feminism Copy Share Image
The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the… — Annia Ciezadlo Decades Copy Share Image
As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects. — Annia Ciezadlo Anthropologist Copy Share Image
But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different… — Annia Ciezadlo American woman Copy Share Image
Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of… — Annia Ciezadlo Adventurer Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a… — Annia Ciezadlo Arab world Copy Share Image
You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If… — Annia Ciezadlo Asking Copy Share Image
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… — Annia Ciezadlo Als Copy Share Image
But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth… — Annia Ciezadlo Birth Copy Share Image
One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one… — Annia Ciezadlo Atrocities Copy Share Image
The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle… — Annia Ciezadlo Afghanistan Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Being human Copy Share Image
Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the… — Annia Ciezadlo Assumption Copy Share Image
How can a country be home to sectarian militias and yet also to people who are educated, sophisticated, and pluralistic? This is… — Annia Ciezadlo Country Copy Share Image
The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American… — Annia Ciezadlo Classic Copy Share Image
We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend… — Annia Ciezadlo Commuting Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means… — Annia Ciezadlo Bread Copy Share Image
Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted… — Annia Ciezadlo Average Copy Share Image
If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt,… — Annia Ciezadlo Algeria Copy Share Image
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… — Annia Ciezadlo Bounds Copy Share Image
There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift… — Annia Ciezadlo Bread Copy Share Image
So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology.… — Annia Ciezadlo Arab Copy Share Image
Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do… — Annia Ciezadlo Battle Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's… — Annia Ciezadlo Bad thing Copy Share Image
So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology.… — Annia Ciezadlo Arab world Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these… — Annia Ciezadlo Arab spring Copy Share Image
Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon,… — Annia Ciezadlo Agents Copy Share Image
Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system… — Annia Ciezadlo Als Copy Share Image
![“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, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way…” quote by Annia Ciezadlo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a99/annia-ciezadlo-21699_asking_you-can-become-part-of-someone-else-s-na_2402997.jpg)
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