Recipes and Remembrances From an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen: A Culinary Journey through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
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Nov. 26, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann
Last Men in Aleppo
Picking up the pieces of the Syrian Civil War
"...Once Syria’s largest city, Aleppo is now a place of rubble..."
June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Seeing Is Believing
How Project Syria's VR initiative is building a new generation of global citizens
"...The core of this initiative was Project Syria, a collaboration with virtual reality pioneer Nonny de la..."
March 4, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Viper Club
Susan Sarandon and the murky world of paying kidnappers
"...son Andy (Morris) has been captured by ISIS in Syria. Although the story feels plucked off of the front..."
Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Syrian Bride
This story about an arranged marriage taking place in a remote outpost of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights will be familiar to anyone ever caught in an avalanche of red tape.
"...family in the Heights, who is to marry a Syrian soap opera star, whom she has only seen on..."
May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Doggett on War and Peace
Austin Congressman counsels against attack on Syria
"...the prospect of a U.S. military attack on the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Asked if he believes..."
Aug. 30, 2013 News Post by Michael King
Thanksgiving as a Refugee in America
Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
"...refugees, having fled from the violence of their native Syria and literally walked across middle eastern borders toward an..."
Nov. 25, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Get Off Your Ass and Change the World
Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams speaks tomorrow at BookPeople
"...process. Though many countries, including the United States and Syria, have yet to sign the treaty, the ICBL's campaign..."
Sept. 6, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape
Austin Film Festival: #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator
Trying to light a revolution using social media
"...who was essential in helping to coordinate protests in Syria, 6,000 miles away. Bastatneh was born in Syria, but..."
Oct. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki
Limbo
Immigration dramedy shipwrecks Syrian migrants in Scotland
"...powerful dramedy about the personal Scottish hell of one Syrian refugee...."
April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Texas Lawmakers Continue Anti-Refugee Fight
Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott do all they can to block families fleeing the Syrian Civil War
"...Until 2011, Mazin lived a simple life in Syria; politics were not part of it. His life revolved..."
Feb. 5, 2016 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata
Students Rally Behind Earthquake Aid Relief
Student group raised more than $20K for survivors
"...went to widely trusted aid groups in Turkey and Syria, including Ahbap, Syrian American Medical Society, and White Helmets...."
March 3, 2023 News Feature by Dex Wesley Parra
Deconstructing ISIS
UT professors discuss the rise of the Islamic state
"...all of which helped the group to expand. The Syrian civil war offered another landscape for ISIS that was..."
March 1, 2016 News Post by Dina Samir Shehata
Point Austin: Shock and Awe ... Once Again
Our wars return to roost, and we blame the victims
"...Paris by declaring opposition to any U.S. resettlement of Syrian refugees – as more than two dozen (mostly Republican)..."
Nov. 20, 2015 News Column by Michael King
No Shelter Here
Abbott's anti-refugee remarks make an already difficult resettlement process more so
"...fear-mongering statements Monday (Nov. 16) concerning his distaste for Syrian refugees don't matter as much to Adnan Suleiman as..."
Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger
McCaul Rejects Refugees
While assistance is needed, Rep. McCaul opposes harboring Syrian refugees
"...Will Texas host more of the millions of Syrians currently fleeing their war-wracked home? Not if Texas Congressman..."
Sept. 11, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Ted Cruz: You, Sir, Are No Jesse Helms
Texas senator praises the grand obstructionist and bigot
"...speech was supposed to be about President Obama and Syria. Cruz has had to walk a narrow tight rope:..."
Sept. 12, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Playback
SXSW news and carryings-on
"...(2pm), Pickwick (3), Dawes (4), and you-know-who at 5pm. Syria's Souleyman..."
March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin
Organized Chaos (in Tejas)
Q: Just how heavy and hardcore is Austin's first-half-closing festival? A: Chaos in Tejas!
"...Syria's in crisis. Uprisings in the Arab Republic have resulted..."
June 3, 2011 Music Feature
Kneeling Down at Noon
The Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Kneeling Down at Noon is a thoughtful and deeply humane drama that considers the way Islam informs the lives and actions of various characters
"...in at any time. Most of them reside in Syria, where a repressive regime monitors their every move and..."
Nov. 17, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Understanding Islam
Steve Moore's latest play makes a pilgrimage to the truth of a misunderstood faith
"...to take shape, part of it set in Damascus, Syria, and part of it set in Austin. In Damascus,..."
Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Green Border
An angry, visceral masterpiece about refugees turned into political pawns
"...of conversation. Bashir (Altawil) and Amina (Naous) are fleeing Syria with their two young children and infant, along with..."
Aug. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Tunisia's Oscar nominee layers art, commerce, and romance
"...loudly critique it online, calling Ali a disgrace to Syria and refugees alike. They cry for him as both..."
April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf
Notturno
Epic documentary chronicles the intimate and epic scale of life in four nations
"...it was filmed it along the borders of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, this is a loaded statement. Kurdistan..."
Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
This Is Not a Movie
Veteran foreign correspondent Robert Fisk embodies the importance of honest journalism
"...later, he drives through the wreckage of Homs in Syria – older, balder, wiser, and with a very clear..."
Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live-Action
An uneven selection does not represent the best narrative shorts
"...home when one of them returns from fighting in Syria, possibly for ISIS, although his true allegiances are left..."
Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
State and Local Politicians Respond to Soleimani Assassination
Officials and candidates comment on killing of Qassem Soleimani
"...so-called Shia crescent, stretching from Iran to Iraq through Syria into southern Lebanon. He is responsible for providing explosives,..."
Jan. 6, 2020 News Post by Michael King
Local Nonprofit Starts Online Campaign for Mamas and Babies
Update: Sixth challenge added to support families in the border crisis
"...of their five profiled women from vulnerable communities in Syria, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and Nepal. For one day,..."
June 18, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda
Beirut
John Hamm sweats stylishly in gritty, grim spy thriller.
"...unwrap the region's complicated history, of the Israelis and Syria and the PLO and Druze Militias, of competing interests,..."
April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Other Side of Hope
Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants
"...Khaled (Haji) is a refugee from Syria, who lands in Helsinki after being chased onto a..."
Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Oswaldo "A.B." Cantu Pan-American Recreation Center
