Alia Yunis

Here and There All At Once

The Golden Harvest

A delightful insight into what can make the mundane magical, Yunis’ award-winning documentary is a gold-tinged masterpiece.

-Virginia Film Festival

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If it were a woman, olive tree would be the Mediterranean’s Scheherazade, the great storyteller. Through hundreds of wars, Biblical times, and the current migrant crisis it has been steadfast, seeping into the culture, economics, history, politics, religion and food in this 6,000-year love story.

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fay

February 26, 2015 at 9:32 am

very informative and impressive information on olive oil, it has been part of middle eastern people diet and I eat since I was little child often for breakfast with tea I am talking about 100 year ago. Very enlightening subject. Congratulations,
Fay
Abu Dhabi

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About Alia

Alia Yunis is a writer, journalist and filmmaker. She is currently producing and directing “The Golden Harvest,” a feature length documentary about how olive oil has shaped the Mediterranean culture, cuisine and history for 6,000 years, through war and peace. Her debut novel, The Night Counter (Random House) has been critically acclaimed by the Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and several other publications. It was also chosen as a top summer read by the Chicago Tribune and Boston Phoenix. The Boston Globe has called it “wonderfully imaginative…poignant, hilarious.” Alia was born in Chicago and grew up in the U.S., Greece, and the Middle East. She has worked as a filmmaker and journalist in several cities, especially Los Angeles. Her fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including The Robert Olen Butler Best Short Stories collection, and her non-fiction work includes articles for The Los Angeles Times, Saveur, SportsTravel Magazine, and Aramco World. She currently teaches film at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi.

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