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Come and cook traditional Palestinian foods while learning about the food sovereignty issue in Palestine through a screening of Jumana Manna's Foragers (2022).This event is inspired by Conflict Kitchen, a restaurant in Pennsylvania that utilizes the social dynamics of food and economic exchange to foster discussions about countries, cultures, and people often overlooked in mainstream political discourse and media coverage.We will be preparing dishes like mutabal, mussakhan, and maqluba.Co-sponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies and the Colgate University Greenhouse, and supported by the Residential Commons Program, Dart Colegrove Commons, and Brown Commons.
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