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Dalal al-Bardawil, 53, prepares somaqiya, traditional meal of Gaza, at her kitchen in Gaza City on March 14, 2018. Somaqiya consists of meat, onions, flour, spices, olive oil, sumac and tahini. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajour/APA Images)

Maqlouba, musafan, and somaqiya. Ziad Ali shares three recipes from friends, collecting oral histories behind the carefully curated spices and mixtures of Palestinian heritage cooking.

Waheed Fakhoury, 74, sits behind a pottery wheel, eyes glued to a television above as his hands instinctively shape a silky mass of brown earth dug up from the West Bank city of Hebron. Within a few minutes he has modeled a large bowl. Fakhoury means “potter in Arabic.” When asked how long his family has been doing this craft, Waheed chuckles, “As long as my name has been Fakhoury.”