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Southern Syrian and Hawran Foodways

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Daraa, Quneitra and the HAWRAN — the basalt plain south of Damascus, rain-fed, treeless and famous for wheat. The food is the plain’s: BURGHUL and FREEKEH, the green wheat roasted over a fire of its own straw, which is a Hawrani and southern Levantine tradition; bread baked on the SAJ and in the TABOON; OLIVES from the western slopes; MANSAF-adjacent communal lamb-and-yogurt dishes shared with Jordan across a border that cut one region in two in 1920; dairy — JAMEED, labneh, shanklish; and the tomato and watermelon of the irrigated pockets. ⚠ THE HAWRAN RUNS ACROSS THE SYRIA-JORDAN BORDER and the people either side are the same tribes; this row records that rather than treating the line as culinary.

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Communities and languages

Languages: North Levantine Arabic, South Levantine Arabic

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Jordanian Cuisine documented

    ⚠ The Hawran runs across the Syria-Jordan border and the people either side are the same tribes. The border dates from 1920.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Mansaf documented

    Shared with the Hawran across the border; its Jordanian national status is a twentieth-century fact, not a claim of invention.

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