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Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?

A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it

Samantha Ellis yearns to eat the nabug fruit that her Iraqi-Jewish parents recall …

Boot camp, matching tattoos and mutual head-shaving: Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Michael Gandolfini on making Warfare

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film recounts the ordeal of US troops trapped in Iraq. Here, ex-Navy Seal Mendoza, who was one of the soldiers, discusses how the movie was made with his troupe of acto…

18 days ago

28 days ago

‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage?

Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi …

53 days ago

3 months ago

Can Assassin’s Creed Shadows save Ubisoft?

The historical action series has taken us to Baghdad, ancient Greece and the pyramids of Egypt. As it moves to feudal Japan, the stakes for its developer have never been higher

It’s no secret that the…

4 months ago

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