States of Subsistence
On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz ''arabi—the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure. Yet despite its ubiquity in accounts of Middle East politics and society, rarely do we consider how bread is prepared, consumed, discussed, and ci...
On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz ''arabi—the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure. Yet despite its ubiquity in accounts of Middle East politics and society, rarely do we consider how bread is prepared, consumed, discussed, and ci...
