Latest from Joshua Levkowitz
A Culling Plan Unifies Turkey’s Dog Lovers
If proposed Turkish legislation passed, dogs would be collected, kept for 30 days and then killed (unless they are claimed). In practice, animal lovers fear that this would lead to the death of hundreds of thousands of street dogs. But intense public backlash may have the government walking back their plan.
When a Little Syrian Eggplant Is More Than Just Food
The petite, preserved eggplant serves not only as a marker of memory and nostalgia but also as a gift to loved ones, a means to pay off debts, a touchstone for marriage proposals and a tether to the homeland. They are interpreted in dreams, used in jokes ("Did you hear the one about when the makdous met Ronald McDonald?") and can even be used to describe a state of being.