When Mothers Ate Their Children: Wartime Memory and the Language of Food in Syria and Lebanon (2014)
al-Qattan, Najwa (Author)
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Volume: 46, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 719-736
Edition Details: Part of a Series: “World War I”
Language: English
This article explores the experience of the Great War in Syria and Lebanon with a specific focus on the famine that, combined with other wartime calamities, decimated the civilian population. Using food as its primary register, it looks at a wide range of largely untapped Syrian and Lebanese poems, zajal, plays, novels, memoirs, and histories written over the course of the 20th century, in order to illuminate the experiential dimensions of the civilians' war and to delineate some of the discourses that structured it. More specifically, it argues that the wartime famine in Syria and Lebanon gave rise to a remembered cuisine of desperation that is deeply informative about the ruptured world of the civilians' war.
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