Meant To Be Eaten

Azri Amram on the Jewish-Palestinian conflict, and food tourism as a bridge

Episode Summary

"This episode of Meant to be Eaten was produced in collaboration with Gastronomica Journal. Melissa Fuster, from Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, is in for Coral Lee. A conversation with Azri Amram. Can food serve as a tool to build bridges in times of conflict? Azri Amram takes us to the Palestinian town on Kafr Qasim, the site of a massacre in 1956, which today serves as the site for food tours, motivating dialogue between Palestinians and Israeli-Jewish “food tourists”. Azri Amram is completing his doctorate degree in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Ben-Gurion of the Negev in Israel, examining Jewish-Palestinian relationships in food spaces. "

Episode Notes

This episode of Meant to be Eaten was produced in collaboration with Gastronomica Journal

Melissa Fuster, from Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, is in for Coral Lee.

A conversation with Azri Amram

Can food serve as a tool to build bridges in times of conflict? Azri Amram takes us to the Palestinian town on Kafr Qasim, the site of a massacre in 1956, which today serves as the site for food tours,
motivating dialogue between Palestinians and Israeli-Jewish “food tourists”. Azri Amram is completing his doctorate degree in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Ben-Gurion of the Negev in Israel, examining Jewish-Palestinian relationships in food spaces.

Photo Courtesy of Azri Amram. 

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