New book by Dr Kirill Dmitriev

Insatiable appetite: Food as cultural signifier in the Middle East and beyond, has been published with Brill in the series Islamic history and civilization, volume: 163. The book explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope, from antiquity to present, adopting approaches from various disciplines, including classical Greek philology, Arabic literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, and history. The contributions to the book are structured around six thematic parts, ranging in focus from social status to religious prohibitions, gender issues, intoxicants, vegetarianism, and management of scarcity.

The book launch took place on 14 October 2019, at the American University of Beirut (Lebanon).