The culinary traditions we celebrate in Tunisia today are the flowering of a mature culture that has flourished and deepened over centuries. It explores the many levels at which diet contributes to the community.

The Olive tree, which lies at the heart of Mediterranean cooking, is used comprehensively - its roots, trunk, branches, twigs, leaves and fruit are all used for the benefit of healthy living. The wood is turned into craft items and the foliage is often used for medicinal purposes, while the fruit appears as appetizers or in the form of oil for cooking and cosmetics. Without roots and trunks a tree cannot grow leaves and without supportive dietary roots societies, too, can wither in the same way.

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Wilderness Trekking in Oman is a practical guide for hiking in the Western Hajar, following some 200km of mountain trails. Meticulously researched and presented with detailed original cartography, this comprehensive guide is the key to discovering a remarkable landscape. The mountain traverse follows the spine of the mountains in a point-to-point walk taking 16 days which can be broken down into eight one-day walks, two two-day walks, and one four-day walk. There is a road intersection with a village or hotel between each of these 11 sections. The traverse climbs to the highest accessible peak in the country at 2999m and finishes in remote dry valleys, called wadis, where impregnable cliffs have precluded road construction and electricity transmission. This has preserved the Arabian mountain lifestyle that has existed for centuries.

This book describes where to go, what to carry, where to sleep, and, most importantly, where to find drinking water. Some hikers may choose to be supported by friends meeting them in a 4WD vehicle at road intersections marking the end of each section. For their benefit, this book includes excursions at eight of these ten rendezvous points. There are other possibilities for resupply at all 10 road intersections. Digital data for download comprises GPS tracks, waypoints, kmz map files, and PDF files of each chapter. Hikers who have completed part or all of this traverse are invited to post reviews on social media accessible from www.hajarhiking.com, where there are historical photographs and video recorded on parts of this traverse in 1992 when there was only one road in the entire mountain range.

An engaging and comprehensive tour of the world of diversity in the workplace. Authoritative, yet witty and well told, this important book is a vital navigational tool for anyone getting to grips with the importance of diversity across the spectrum of today s society. Demystifying Diversity is aimed at anyone with a line management responsibility at any level of management, business professionals and HR practitioners.

Araq - or its sister spirits, pastis, raki, sambuca, mastika, and chartreuse to name just a few - traces its origins back to the very earliest distilled alcohol, in the fertile crescent that skirts the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Often known to the Lebanese as the Milk of Lions, it sits at center table in day-to-day life. Broader than simply a study of the region's favorite digestif, this volume encompasses the general history of alcohol across the Middle East region, from early brewers in Pharaonic Egypt, through to the wine poets of the Abbasid courts and on to its popularity today. Written by an author with long personal experience of fine distilling, this fascinating account encompasses the details of how it is made and conducts an exploration of cultural references in literature and society today.

An essential companion for anyone who enjoys the magical milky swirl of iced water hitting aniseed liqueur, this volume celebrates the cherished drink from its earliest discovery through to its undiminished popularity today.

As British headlines daily question Britain's role in the new world order, Lord Howell of Guildford presents a timely retrospective of collected essay sthat present an overarching view of the role of the Commonwealth in modern global history.

These farsighted essays, many featured in the mainstream media over the years, are edited here with fresh insights that present a well-informed proposal for a reinvigorated Commonwealth and a new paradigm in the way Britain sees its global position for the future.

A delightful children's story with an important environmental message.

Written by a distinguished British-Syrian diplomat and journalist who has experience of life in the inside of the the Assad regimes, balanced by a cosmopolitan London-based perspective on the region's general history, this volume delivers a rare understanding of Syria's turbulent history and the position she finds herself in today.

Every year, thousands of people living in desert environments drive into the desert for recreation, sport or exploration. It is a dangerous hobby and one that requires good sense and the ability to handle your vehicle. It also requires considerable skills in other fields: navigation by day and night, an understanding of weather, provisioning, survival and more. This manual provides all of this and is a vital bit of equipment for all 4x4's in arid zones.

The staggering breadth and diversity of Yemen's landscapes and peoples is not something easily conveyed. Here, in this remarkable celebration of his homeland, Mahmoud Al-Shaibani presents a breathtaking panorama that sweeps in the mountains and valleys, the plains and seas, and the myriad of different communities that live across this ancient land. We are fortunate to be able to have this window into this rare corner of Arabia - a land of stark geographical contrasts inhabited by a people whose way of life has often scarcely changed since the dawn of settled civilisation.

In 1930...Arabia's Empty Quarter constituted the broadest expanse of unexplored territory outside the Antarctic continent... The Explorers' Club

Arabia's vast Rub Al Khali desert is one of the world's most extreme and inhospitable environments, and in 1930 the race was on to become the first European to cross what is the biggest sand desert on earth The potential hardship was not to deter Bertram Thomas, the intrepid British explorer who set out to travel from south to north in the winter of 1930-31, guided by Omani Sheikh Saleh Bin Kalut al Rashidi al Kathiri. Challenged by the unknown, they walked for nearly 1,000 kilometres from Salalah on the coast of Oman, through the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to Doha, the capital of Qatar; it was to be the first recorded crossing, dashing the hopes of Ibn Philby.Now, some 85 years later, another team of Omanis has taken on the challenge - leading British explorer Mark Evans across the same stretch of desert. Crossing the Empty Quarter is a large format celebration of the journey in all its aspects. Combining extensive photography - both archive and contemporary - with an authoritative yet highly readable text, this book will be a unique exploration of the region as it was more than eighty years ago, and as it stands today.

I implore you, as I implore the whole of Egypt, to let no one harm the sacred union of the Cross and the Crescent...In truth, here there are neither Copts nor Muslims, only Egyptians. So begins Farag Moussa's compelling narrative of his late father's life - an engaging and comprehensive tour that tells a very human life story, but also brings in the vanished world of Egypt's belle epoque. Over the course of a distinguished career, Moussa recounts an educated Egypt perspective on places as diverse as Addis Ababa and Washington DC, and characters as diverse as Evelyn Waugh and Benito Mussolini.