The Food Question in the Middle East : Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 4.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 We Are What We Eat, We Were What We Ate -- 3 Killing Them Softly: Dietary Deficiencies and Food Insecurity in Twentieth-Century Egypt -- 4 Where is Our Balady Food? -- 5 Agri-food System Dynamics in a South Lebanon Village, 1920-2015 -- 6 Food Issues and Revolution: The Process of Dispossession, Class Solidarity, and Popular Uprising: The Case of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia -- 7 Reflection on the Concept of Hunger: The Case of Egypt between 2008 and 2011 -- 8 Gulf Land Acquisitions in Egypt and Sudan: Food Security or the Agro-commodity Supply Chain? -- 9 Politics of Food Aid: From Politicization to Integration -- About the Contributors.

In recent years, the food question has been a central concern for politicians, economists, international organizations, activists and NGOs alike, as well as social scientists at large. Papers in this collection, arising from a symposium organized by Cairo Papers in 2016, address the food question from both its food and agricultural aspects, and approach it as the site of political and economic conflicts, as the means of sociocultural control and distinction, and as the expression of national and ethnic identities.

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