Food Fabrication: Culinary practices and food politics in the Arab world

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Food Fabrication: Culinary practices and food politics in the Arab world

International Forum

January, 14 to January 17, 2015

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Jointly organized by the Orient-Institut Beirut and Goethe-Institut Beirut

Food is a basic need and a subject of contestation. What we eat is constructed and has cultural, political and economic significance. The aim of this forum is to take a comprehensive look at food in Lebanon and the Arab World where food insecurity coexists with obesity; and where most of the food consumed is imported. It aims to contribute to the contemporary debates surrounding food by addressing pressing issues such as culinary practices, food globalization, food safety and food security. The forum will bring together farmers and entrepreneurs, activists, artists and politicians and academics in order to echo the voices implicated in the debates over food. Participants will critically examine current eating habits, cooking and dining cultures, food trends as well as the relation of food and arts. These themes will be addressed in open discussions, film screenings, academic presentations, a photo exhibition and excursions in and around Beirut.

Program:

WED, 14 JAN

Venue: Goethe-Institut

7.00 pm

Welcome reception in the presence of H.E. Wael Abou Faour, Minister of Health, Republic of Lebanon and Opening of the Photo Exhibition:

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

MARWAN A. TAHTAH/Photographer

THUR, 15 JAN

Venue: Goethe-Institut

10.00 – 10.30 am	Welcome
10.30 – 12.00 pm	A MATTER OF TASTE – TALKS SAMI ZUBAIDA/Birkbeck, University of London Drink, Meals and Social Boundaries in the Middle East ENRICA AUDANO/ University of Leipzig Halal-food in Supermarkets: Between profit and social distinction MIRIAM STOCK/Orient-Institut Beirut How to Eat When You Got Taste – Observations from Berlin and Beirut
12.00 – 1.00 pm	Lunch
1.00 – 3.00 pm	THINK GLOBAL, EAT LOCAL – TALKS/FILM MALAK ROUCHDY/American University of Cairo The Story of Fava Beans Cultivation and Foul Midamis Fabrication in Egypt Film by LUCILE GARCON and RAMI ZURAYK Warsheh Syrian women migrant farmworkers in Bekaa, Lebanon KAMAL MOUZAWAK, ZEINAB KASHMAR, ABU RABIH/Souk el Tayeb From Farmer to Table – Souk el Tayeb REMO CIUCCIOMEI/ IMC Liban – CCPB Certification The Mediterranean between Global and Local
3.00 – 3.30 pm	Coffee break
3.30 – 5.30 pm	IS FOOD EATING US? – PANEL Discussion about Food Safety Moderator: PATRICIA KHODER/Journalist Panelists H.E. WAEL ABOU FAOUR/Minister of Health, Republic of Lebanon MUSA FREIJI/Poultry specialist and Tanmia founder NADA NEHME/Consumers Lebanon Association MOHAMMAD FAWAZ/United Management Bureau – Quality Management Institute

FRI, 16 JAN Venue: AltCity

10.00 – 12.00 am	THE POWER OF FOOD – TALKS/FILM HALA BARAKAT/Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (Right to Food Subunit) Bread, Freedom and Social Justice: The politics of food in Egypt during revolutionary times Film by HABIB AYEB and RAY BUSH Fellahin Small farmers and the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings ALI DARWISH/The Green Line Free Trade, Food Sovereignty and Security. Can they co-exist?
12.00 – 1.00 pm	Lunch
1.00 – 3.00 pm	THE POWER OF FOOD – PANEL Discussion about “Who has power over food?” Moderator: RAMI ZURAYK/American University of Beirut RAY BUSH/University of Leeds MARIAM JAJA/Arab Network for Food Sovereignty ISSA HALABI/ Farmer and Entrepreneur from Jordan MAURICE SAADE/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
3.00 – 3.30 pm	Coffee break
3.30 – 5.00 pm	BRAVE NEW KITCHEN – TALKS LARA NASREDDINE/American University of Beirut Dynamics of the Nutrition Transition in Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region RANDA FAHD/Nutritionist and TV-host “Eat right” Fats: The good, the bad and the ugly BARBARA MASSAAD/Chef, Writer and Photographer Soup for Syria – From Slow Food to Humanitarian Engagement
5.00 – 6.30 pm	JOE BARZA PREPARES Live Cook Show with JOE BARZA/Chef, TV Personality and Culinary Consultant Salad Berghoul with Chicken

SAT, 17 JAN

Venue: OIB/City of Beirut

A MATTER OF TASTE – FOOD TOURS

10.00 – 1.00 pm

Culinary Mapping
Food Discovering Tours in the city

1.00 – 2.30 pm

Beirut’s Landscapes of Taste
Interactive Presentation and Degustation at the OIB

2.30 – 3.30 pm

THE FUTURE OF FOOD?

BLENDS FOOD COMPANY
Molecular Food
Live Demonstration

Culinary Cinema Days

TUE, 13 JAN 07.30 pm	Taste The Waste Germany 2011, 90 min., English subtitles
THU, 15 JAN 07:30 pm	Soul Food Stories Bulgaria/Finland 2013, 70 min., English subtitles
FRI, 16 JAN 07:30 pm	The Raw And The Cooked Germany, 2012, 83 min., English subtitles
SAT, 17 JAN 07:30 pm	Soul Kitchen Germany, 2009, 100 min., English subtitles

Screening Venue: Goethe-Institut Beirut

The Forum is jointly organized by the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Goethe-Institut Lebanon.

Organizing committee: Astrid Meier (OIB), Miriam Stock (OIB), Stefan Leder (OIB),
Ulrich Nowak (Goethe-Institut), Rami Zurayk (AUB)

Contact: Dr. Miriam Stock, foodfabrication@dont-want-spam.orient-institut.org

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