logo-oibr
  • OIB
    • About
    • News & Analysis
    • Director's Yearly Address
      • Vorwort des Direktors 2024
      • Director’s Address 2024
      • Vorwort des Direktors 2023
      • Director’s Address 2023
      • Director's Address 2022
      • Vorwort zum Jahresbericht 2022
    • Advisory board
    • Josef-van-Ess-Memorial-Lecture
    • Annual Reports
    • Newsletter
    • In the Media
    • Gallery
  • Events
  • Library
    • About
      • Library Team
      • History
    • OIB Catalogues
      • GoTriple
      • OPAC
      • IPAC
    • Repositories & databases
    • Online registration
    • Collection
    • OIB Library Regulations
  • Research
    • Current projects
      • The Japanese Red Army in Lebanon: Solidarity, Militancy, and Transregional Connectivity (Claudia Derichs)
      • Catastrophe, Memory & Critique
      • The ABC of Abū Bakr al-Shanawānī (d. 1610). Arabic letter semiotics on the threshold of modern times (Berenike Metzler)
      • Discourses on Statehood in Iraq (Christian Thuselt)
      • Decolonization, Cold War and the Rise of Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Carol Hakim)
      • A Literary History of Arab Futures: Enlightenment, Ruins, and Dystopia (Zeina Halabi)
      • Kant and the Non-European: Critique, Justice and Freedom
      • Global Weimar – Global Nahda (Princeton University and Orient-Institut Beirut Cooperation)
      • Critical Theory from the Global South: New Perspectives from Beirut (Sami Khatib)
      • Women and religion in post-conflict societies (Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink)
      • From Arabic to Latin: Moving sciences of music around the Mediterranean (Rosy Azar Beyhom)
      • Abrahamic Interdependence - Relationship of the Islamic to the Jewish in Marital Law (Ahmed M. F. Abd-Elsalam)
      • Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943 (LAWHA) (Nadia von Maltzahn)
      • The New Testament quotations in Ibrahim al-Biqāʿīs (st. 1480) commentary on the Koran (Thomas Würtz)
      • BALANCE AS JUSTICE: DECONSTRUCTION OF PREMODERN ETHICS ON THE BASIS OF ḲINĀLĪZĀDE ꜤALĪ ÇELEBĪ’S AKHLĀḲ-I ꜤALĀ’Ī (FATIH ERMIŞ)
      • From Copying to Burning the Qur’an: Creating Models & Transposing Sacrality (Alya Karame)
      • Living in Limbo (Sarah El Bulbeisi)
      • Escape to Europe: Comparative Refugee Imaginaries (Markus Schmitz)
    • Previous projects
      • Cultural Policies in Lebanon: Cultural Institutions between State and Society (Nadia von Maltzahn)
      • Fictio Statis (Pierre France)
      • The Lebanese Intifada of October 17: Perspectives from Within (Birgit Schäbler)
      • Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc (1950's to 1991) (Birgit Schäbler)
      • Europe and the Middle East (Birgit Schäbler)
      • Picturing the (Un)Dead: Reflections and Deconstructions of Lebanese and Iranian "Martyrs" in Contemporary Photo-Related Art-Practices (Agnes Remeder)
      • Hierarchical Rationality of Religious Beliefs System in Islamic and Christian Theology (Qodratullah Qorbani)
      • The inimitability of the Qur’ān (i‘jāz al-qur’ān) in transconfessional contexts of the early ῾Abbāsid period (Hans-Peter Pökel)
      • Cultural Mobilities and Political Spaces (Christopher Bahl)
      • Al-Qadi al-Fadil (Stefan Leder)
      • Bedouin Syria (Johann Büssow)
      • Borrowing and lending (Jonathan Kriener, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
      • Clergy and conflict management (Thomas Scheffler)
      • Higher Education and Citizenship in Egypt (Daniele Cantini)
      • History Writing at Lebanese Universities (Jonathan Kriener)
      • Knowledge in postgraduate studies (Daniele Cantini)
      • Mamâlik – Spatial Dynamics of Islamic Polities (Kurt Franz)
      • Media culture transformation (Hanan Badr)
      • Museums in Dialogue with the Future (Felicia Meynersen)
      • Political slogans (Nader Srage)
      • Political thought (Stefan Leder)
      • Rural societies in an age of urbanisation (Astrid Meier)
      • S.C.R.I.P.T. - Source Companion for the Research on Islamic Political Thought (Stefan Leder)
      • Talking about art – aesthetic reflection in Egypt and Lebanon (Monique Bellan)
      • Tracing an author’s library (Torsten Wollina)
      • A Literal World: Perceiving the World as a Linguistic Construction before the Emergence of the Metaphor in Arabo-Islamic Thought (Abdallah Soufan)
      • Open Arabic Periodical Editions (OpenArabicPE) (Till Grallert)
      • “Women on the streets!: a genealogy of food riots in the Middle East between the 18th and 20th centuries“ (Till Grallert)
    • OIB Seminar Series
      • Theory & Method Seminar (Zeina Halabi) By invitation only
      • The OIB Colloquium (Fatih Ermis)
      • The Lebanese-Syrian Studies Colloquium (Carol Hakim)
      • The Egyptian Studies Lecture Series (Carol Hakim)
      • The Hans-Robert Roemer Fellow Lecture Series (Jens Hanssen)
      • The OIB-LAfOS Annual Lecture On Lebanese-Ottoman Studies (Jens Hanssen)
      • The Annual Joseph-Van-Ess Lecture (Jens Hanssen)
  • People
    • OIB Team
      • Directorate
      • Administration
      • Library
      • IT
      • Publications
      • Research Associates
      • Cairo Office
      • Fellows-in-Residence
      • Technical Staff
    • Academic Visitors
      • Hans Robert Roemer Fellow
      • Affiliated Researchers
      • Fellows-at-large
      • Journalists-in-Residence
    • LAWHA Team
    • Alumni
  • Publications
    • BI · Bibliotheca Islamica
      • About BI
      • Recent Issues
      • Full List
    • BTS · Beiruter Texte und Studien
      • About BTS
      • Recent Issues
      • Full List
    • OIS · Orient Institut Studies
      • About OIS
      • Recent Issues
      • Full List
    • OIB Blog
    • Extra Series
      • About
      • Recent Issues
      • Full List
    • Latest Publications
  • Academic Support
    • Calls & Grants
      • Call for Early-Career Fellows of the Vienna Center for Advanced Studies (ViCAS)
      • The ERC project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (1200–1800) invites proposals for its first international workshop
      • Call for papers – Aid Networks and Mechanisms in a Migratory Context: Europe and the Middle East (1945-1970) – Deadline: 30 June 2025
      • Call for applications for a fully funded PhD fellowship at Ghent University
      • الذكرى المئوية للثورة السورية الكبرى (١٩٢٥-٢٠٢٥) في Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence
      • Call for Papers: The Making of the Lebanese Working Class, Historical Materialism, London Conference, November 2025
      • A workshop on editing Arabic texts in manuscripts organised by Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic & Islamic Science & Philosophy
      • Call for applications for the international Senior Fellowship Programme of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, an Institute for Advanced Study based in Essen (Germany) that is part of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
      • Junior social scientists working on MENA region – deadline: 4 May 2025
      • Associate Senior Lecturer in History (Middle Eastern) – Lund University
      • CALL FOR PAPERS for the Symposium ARAB-GERMAN RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF HISTORY
      • استكتاب للمشاركة في ندوة العلاقات العربية-الألمانية في مرآة التاريخ
      • Call for papers: Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries. A workshop held on July 8-10, 2025, at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
      • IEG Fellowship - The Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz call for applications for one fellowship starting in September 2025. Application Deadline: April 14, 2025
      • Faculty vacancy announcement – The City University of New York Faculty Open Rank - Open Rank, Palestinian Studies Cluster Hire/ Art & Humanities
      • Call for Proposals for a conference on the Lebanese Civil War on the 50th anniversary of its outbreak
      • B2B - Call for Papers - Orient-Institut Istanbul
      • Call for submissions: Palestine Studies, German Studies: Special issue of The German Quarterly
      • Call for Applications: Why Location Matters: Research in the Arab World | دعوة إلى تقديم الطلبات: أهمّية مواقع الأبحاث في العالم العربي
      • Stellvertretender Direktor(in)
      • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter(in) (German version)
      • Research Associate positions
      • Bibliotheksleiter(in)
      • MESA/ACSS/OIB Call for applications
      • Call for applications: MECAM Fellowship Programme 2025-2026
      • Call for applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity for Researchers (f/m/d) From Palestine and Lebanon
      • Call for applications: Khaled al-Asaad Solidarity Funds for researchers in danger
      • Call for Papers International and Interdisciplinary Conference: "Philosophy and Poetry in Islamic Contexts"
      • Call for applications: PhD position at the ERC-KNOW
      • Call for applications: Postdoc position at the ERC-KNOW
      • Call for the Winter School "Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources,” March 17-21, 2025, Rethymno, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, deadline December 15, 2024
      • MECAM Traveling Academy for 2024-2025
      • Link zum Call for Sessions (in englischer und deutscher Sprache)
      • ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities, deadline: Dec 09, 2024
      • Call for applications: Scholarship for Lebanon and Turkey-based researchers for the project "Removal Infrastructures for Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey," deadline: 19/06/2024
      • Call for applications: 12 Doctoral Positions at the graduate program "Post-Eurocentric Europe: Narratives of a World Province in Transformation” at the Department of Literature, Art and Media studies of the University of Konstanz, deadline: 30/06/2024
      • Resident scholar program for Lebanon-based and Lebanese scholars at the Finnish Institute in the Middle East
      • Marie Curie Fellowships
      • ACSS Early Career Fellowships
      • Gerald D. Feldman travel grants
    • Vacancies
      • Residential Postdoctoral Fellowships
      • Residential Doctoral Fellowships
      • OIB Research Relief Fellowships 2022/2023
    • Academic Visitors
      • Affiliated Researchers
      • Fellows-at-large
      • Journalists-in-Residence
      • Hans Robert Roemer Fellow
    • Praktika/Interships
      • OIB-Praktika 2025 (German version)
      • OIB Internships 2025 (English version)
    • Guest rooms
Back to Events

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

International Forum

January, 14 to January 17, 2015

14 /01
to
17 /01

info about Food Fabrication Program Booklet

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

Facebook: www.facebook.com/foodfabrication 

 

 

 

    • footer logo
    • footer log2
    • DATA PROTECTION DISCLAIMER
    • SITEMAP
    • IMPRESSUM
    • Rue Hussein Beyhoum 44
      Zokak el-Blat
    • +9611359423
    • sek@orient-institut.org

Follow us:

© 2025, OIB All Right Reserved / OIB Alle Rechte vorbehalten.