Lebanese history can be told through food (hummus is ours!) | ‏تاريخ المطبخ اللبناني (الحمص لنا!)

Clip taken from Sarde #29 with Historian Charles al-Hayek
• CHARLES AL-HAYEK: Leba...
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[@mojam88]

One of the best episodes! Charles is amazing - a great storyteller and provides excellent context. Very enjoyable.

[@Mothezionistshunter]

مبدع والله، شاهدت اللقاء كاملا، اكثر من ساعتين بدون كلل او ملل، نيال لبنان فيك والله

[@momoffour5885]

Charles is such a sophisticated intellectual that amazing me every time I listen to his lectures.

[@leviclancy]

He mentions baklawa as an Arab food because of a medieval author but Assyrians recorded a recipe thousands of years earlier… not the best intellectual, don’t be fooled by anyone who speaks in an appealing way

[@KenzieTawili]

@@leviclancy He mentions Baklawa as a traditional levantine Arab dish as it has it roots in our cultural identity and has for centuries, his recitation of the author is necessary as it reflects on how big of a significance this dish has on us, and isn't one to be claimed by invaders like you.

[@MickalEldandachli]

الاكل جزء من التاريخ العريق وخبز الارز

[@MickalEldandachli]

العز الرز والبرغل شنق حالو

[@ranahazim5496]

Amazing Video !!!! A topic I love so dearly

[@zara-mq4nq]

I can’t stop watching sarde , and I’m not even Lebanese

[@azzr9435]

same here! ❤️

[@atotallyextinctdinosaur]

@@azzr9435 Just discovered it, Become one of my favorite podcasts (from Egypt)

[@Ttttyui370]

Charles is charismatic, educated and reliable person

[@husamalhalal4430]

انا عندي كتاب الطبيخ وصراحة اغلب اكلاتنا اللي ناكلها اليوم موجودة في الكتاب

[@roulaserhal6693]

So true!!!

[@fidaamaladan7242]

العز للرز والبرغل شنق حالو

[@m.c.fromnyc2187]

Bad translation. It’s rather a kind of a proverb that says, more or less: “the praise is for rice, and the bulgur hung itself”, describing the replacement of bulgur with rice in modern times.

[@amalfahes4426]

Charles AlHayek❤️❤️❤️

[@mohamedbkh2508]

جوعتوني

[@habibabidjan3720]

استاذ شارل انت جدا مميز ورائع

[@Nameless-xr1rh]

شو هل شارل الجميل

[@palestinabaddie]

🇵🇸♥️🇱🇧

[@rubinalatifpoetry1141]

Great story thanks

[@gamzehbursa1040]

حمص بلبناني مسبحه بشام

[@lebanon_2964]

Shaden : is hummus israeli ya 2youra😅👌🏻

[@mariarita9173]

الفلافل اقدم منكن😂😂

[@dancenowccdss939]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸✝️

[@fadi9799]

But Pita and flat bread are the same.

[@MikeJohnson-ii7nq]

Wrong hummus has shared levantine or Egyptian origin

[@KenzieTawili]

Ah yes cause Lebanon isn’t in the levant 💀

[@gamzehbursa1040]

لبيروت وشام بس

[@ici70yz49]

بس اكتر من نص الاسرائيليين جاءوا من دول عربيه ولديهم تراث لبناني سوري عراقي مصري …الخ وجلبوا هذا التراث معهم

[@abdiheba4478]

أغلبهم من المغرب واليمن والعراق مش من لبنان وسوريا يعني مش ثقافة بلاد الشام الحمص والفلافل مش اكلات مشهورة بالمغرب، فهاي حجة هزيلة. تانيا، لمًا المهاجر لأي مكان ياخد ثقافته معه، ما بتصير ثقافة بلد الهجرة، مثلا الحمص يباع بكل مراكز التسوق بأميركا، ما حدا بيدعي انه الحمص طبق أميركي تالتا، المستوطنين من أوروبا جابوا معهم اكلات اوروبية، بس ما حدا بيدعي انها اكلات تخص الكيان ومافي تركيز عليها، لانه سرقة الحمص واكلات بلاد الشام هو لهدف سياسي استعماري

[@ici70yz49]

@@abdiheba4478 ولكنهم عرب يهود مثل العربي المسلم والعربي المسيحي، الكل سواسيه. نشأوا على هذه الارض مثلك مثلهم

[@hmo9095]

@@abdiheba4478 الفلافل اصلها هندي

[@mariateresacantonbetancour2868]

I Watch this video because I am Learning arabi. However, I find surprising such stupid comment towards Israel. They have no claim to the Land. Only a verry narrow mind can have such an assertion and at the same time worshipping a jewish God… Names like Ibrahim, Yasuf, Dawed, Miria, they came from? Thats right, Israel,there is no Quran or New Testament with out Israel,Its people, culture and religion. I love levantine culture, Italia makes me sad this type of narrowmindness. Perhaps that is the reason why such a great countries are so backward and in the mist of wars and economic caos. Israel is not only your neighbor country, they are your brothers. Lebanon will be much better admiring and emulating Israel. Yes, they eat middle eastern food is delicious

[@Ghnim_1928]

Me parece que tu reacción es debida a la propaganda sionista que era la única que se escuchaba en Occidente. Si la tierra es suya, por qué necesitaron comprar tierras antes del 1947 y expulsar a los paisanos palestinos, por qué tuvieron que acosar y amenazar a Truman para que votará en favor de la partición del 47 y que amenazara a los países reticentes (Liberia, Nicaragua, Haití, Costa Rica, Filipinas), por qué expulsaron 750.000 Palestinos entre 47 y 50 robando sus tierras y destruyendo sus pueblos ? Qué lógica tiene esto : si algo es tuyo, no te hace falta robarlo o usar tejemanejes para adquirirlo. En cuanto a los Palestinos, se suele creer que son descendientes de Árabes de la conquista ? Hay que recordar que la Península Arábiga era una zona poco poblada y que por lo tanto, desde Al Andalus hasta Irak los Árabes nunca dejaron de ser una minoría. Adoptar otra lengua no significa cambiar de genes. De hecho, existe en Marruecos toda una zona araboparlante en la que tienen 0% de genes arabes y pocas cosas heredadas de la Península Arábiga. También existe este mito de "cultura árabe" y no sé qué, cuando en realidad la diversidad es tremenda y muchos elementos heredados de otras culturas. Los Palestinos son por lo tanto descendientes de poblaciones que vivían en Palestina siglos y milenios antes de la islamizacion (que de hecho fue gradual). Culturalmente, la continuidad es indudable : el lazo con la Tierra Santa es fuerte (los Musulmanes por ej celebran Abraham, Rahel o Moses cada año: incluso los judíos tuvieron que inspirarse de ellos para "descubrir" dichos sitios). También existe el mito de la destrucción del Segundo Templo de Jérusalem por Titus : pues la mayoría de los Judíos ya vivían fuera de Palestina en esta época (Italia, Babilonia, Alejandría, Grecia) y la mayoría no lo hizo por obligación (aunque existieron casos). No sé si estás al tanto de la gran diversidad cultural de las comunidades judías. Pero el caso es si cada uno puede hacer lo que le da la gana y regresar a donde quiera cuando quiera, imaginate el jaleo. Imaginate los Rum regresando al Norte de la India (pero bueno, les hace falta otro milenio para que su caso sea similar). Es que de verdad, esta idea tan arraigada de la normalidad del proyecto sionista es una locura. "Mis antepasados vivían aquí"... "y a mi qué más me da ". Saludos

[@Ghnim_1928]

Otro asunto que no consigo entender: si un movimiento musulman tiene hoy como proyecto la vuelta a la tierra donde vivían sus antepasados hace milenios, quien consideraría estas personas equilibradas? Todo el mundo estaría en plan : estos musulmanes, locos, fanáticos, viviendo en la Edad Medía, utilizando su religión para justificar una agresión... pero claro, cuando se trata de otras personas, otro gallo canta...

[@ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273]

No present zionist state in middle eastern

[@koopon3900]

My educated friend Charles al-Hayek should know bani Israil were living in their land a thousand years before the first Arab set foot in the Levant in 500CE. Sorry but it's facts. It is their home too

[@viennanights4480]

It’s their home? WE’re living in their land? Chou cherib enta? Habibi it’s not their land “israel” ma ela 50 sene mawjoude, hay l dawle esma folostine Palestine, ejo attalo l 3alam w sara2ouloun ardoun. Their Home al. La home wala chi ejo sara2o ard ghayroun w halla2 3am yeser2o sa2afetna.

[@mbn9672]

Shhhh the adults are speaking 🤫

[@lebaneseintheusandcanada3345]

No haboob, the Arabs were only in the gulf.

[@koopon3900]

@Jamil Ebdeen Sorry but from 2000BCE to 1st century CE, which is roughly the period in question, there were next to no Arabs in the Levant. There were many other indigenous civilizations though; Israelite, Phoenecian, Canaanite, Amorite, Hittite, Amalekite, Edomite, Babylonian, Ancient Egyptian (pre-Arab), Philistines, Moabites, Assyrians, among others. None of which were Arab, all of which had their own discrete cultural and ethnic affinities. Nomadic Nabateans were the one and only Arab group in the region as far as I know, but their influence in the region was extremely limited.

[@StinkyCop1]

Don't even bother my friend, they don't want it to hurt their narrative. why do you think we called Jews? because we came from Judeah, which you call this days the "West Bank". the word Jew does not mentioned even once in the Torah or the Tanah. the word Jew came from other nations because the Jews came from the land Judeah. It was Kingdome of Israel and Kingdome of Judea. trying to erease the Jews history from this region is ridicalious. 75% of the Jews that lives in Israel came from the Middle East.

[@leviclancy]

A great example of how being more educated can actually make someone more wrong. - You mention baklawa and brag about it being an Arab food mentioned seven hundred years ago. It was recorded thousands of years ago by Assyrians. If only I had the confidence of this man concluding it belongs only to Arabs because an Arab mentioned it. - You mention the word “hummus” endlessly. And where does this word originate? Hebrew and Aramaic. And who has been preparing hummus in various ways including as its own mixed dish for thousands of years? Everyone. - You go to a falafel shop in Jerusalem and the Jewish families brought their recipes straight from Iraq. The oldest Jewish villages in Iraq are known because Jewish texts have been found dating to over two thousand years ago. And these Jews kept making their food when they left Iraq to return to Jerusalem. These people known how to prepare their hummus! So keep using Hebrew words and enjoying shared foods 🤍 because they’re now universal 🤍

[@sweetacapella]

The word hummus is originally Aramaic, the language spoken by our ancestors in Lebanon, so I really don’t see your point. There were plenty of Jewish native levantines so your mention of religion is irrelevant. We’re talking about the European Jews who created Israel claiming these foods when they have no historical ties to the levant. We also know the origin of falafel so there’s no dispute about that, it was created by the Copts in Egypt, as a vegetarian food to eat in Lent. When it came to the levant fava beans were replaced by chickpeas. Keep reaching though 👍

[@leviclancy]

@@sweetacapella When you mention your ancestors speaking Aramaic... you do realize that "European Jews" in fact continue to study/communicate/pray in Aramaic? It is weird tbh to act like a language nobody in your family knows (I am assuming, since you mention ancestors, tho ofc there are Aramaic-speaking Christians today also) gives you more credit than families that have continuously used the language for thousands of years and continue to do so even if they were expelled to whatever nearby coast of the Mediterranean or Euphrates for being Jewish. Most of Israeli Jews have ancestry from what are today Islamic states though.

[@sweetacapella]

@@leviclancy it doesn’t matter if they pray/use Aramaic, we are talking about origins here, and yes many villages in the levant do still use Aramaic both in daily life and in their prayer services. Most place names in Lebanon are Aramaic (anything starting with ‘kfar’) and we all are proven to have descended from the ancient people of this land by DNA tests, so I really don’t know what you’re trying to prove here. It is the language of our ancestors, the people who created the foods we are discussing.

[@leviclancy]

@@sweetacapella You do realize where Jewish origins are... yes? Hint: it is the place pretty much in the center of a few days walking for much of the diaspora (as in they literally had to walk from there to where today there's Aden, Kiev, Baghdad, etc) .... it is the place where most of the place names are in their language ... it is the place where even the Islamic societies use their boundary definitions, like Dan to the north, Jordan River to the east, etc ... you are so close, I know you can solve this!

[@sweetacapella]

@@leviclancy yes but then they mixed with natives of those lands and now they are mixed hence why they all look totally different. Most European Jews I know are blue eyed and light haired. Hence why Israel has the highest sun cancer rates in the Middle East. You can’t claim land which some of your ancestors may have descended from and appropriate the culture and steal the land of people who have CONTINUOUSLY inhabited there for thousands of years. Were your grandparents even born there? And yet you’re trying to claim our land and culture and erase our history. So entitled.