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  • February 28, 2019

    The Schedule for Thessaloniki International Film Festival

    The Schedule for Thessaloniki International Film Festival

    We are delighted that The Golden Harvest will make its international debut at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival .  Please join us if you can! For more information, visit:  https://www.filmfestival.gr/en/movie/movie/11920 TONIA MARKETAKI 04 March 2019 15:30 JOHN CASSAVETES 05 March 2019 12:45 Continue reading

    Arab Americans, Arts and Culture, Author, Film, Food, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Olive Oil, olive trees, Palestine, Spain, The Golden Harvest, Writing
    Culture, Film, film festival, Food, Olive oil, Olive Tree, Oman, Television, Thessaloniki Internatnional Film Festival, Writing
  • February 25, 2019

    The Golden Harvest to Premiere at Thessaloniki International Film Festival

    The Golden Harvest to Premiere at Thessaloniki International Film Festival

    Every filmmaker making a film on her own dreams of it opening at a Top 10 ranked festival.  We are delighted thus that The Golden Harvest will make its debut on March 4 at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece.  Not only is it a great festival–it’s in the country with the highest per Continue reading

    Arts and Culture, Author, Film, Food, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Minnesota, Olive Oil, olive trees, Palestine, Spain, Syria, Uncategorized
    Culture, Director, Film, film festival, Food, Producer, Television, Thessaloniki Internatnional Film Festival
  • October 19, 2015

    The Trailer for The Golden Harvest is Out

    Visit our new webpage:  http://www.goldenharvestfilm.org/ Continue reading

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  • September 26, 2015

    The Golden Harvest in Post Production

    The Golden Harvest in Post Production

    The olives are still too green for oil. But if they want them for table olives, they’ll do okay. Continue reading

    Arts and Culture, Food, Greece, Italy, Olive Oil, Palestine, recipes, Spain
    Documentary, Film, Mediterranean, Olive oil, Travel
  • October 20, 2014

    The Golden Harvest Time

    Just a very few remedies,cures and hopes the golden harvest provides Continue reading

    Food, Greece, Italy, Olive Oil, Palestine, Spain, The Golden Harvest
    beauty tips, Food, harvest, home remedies, Mediterranean, Olive oil, The Golden Harvest
  • August 23, 2014

    The Blog Tour: My Writing Process

    In which I join other writers in talking about the fun and tortuous process. Continue reading

    Arts and Culture, Author, Books, Film, Publishing, Writing
  • July 12, 2014

    The Celebratory Pancake in Abundance

    In their modern day interpretation, most religious holidays that are about deprivation and/or sacrifice are counterbalanced in their present day celebration with gluttony. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Diwali and yes Ramadan. Newspapers reveled last year in stories about hundreds of people being hoisted onto emergency room stretchers in Qatar, Jordan and elsewhere, due to complications from overeating Continue reading

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  • June 10, 2014

    Another Place the Deer and the Antelope Roam (or Why Abu Dhabi is Called Abu Dhabi)

    I’ve been spending a lot more time around animals lately than I ever thought I would. And if you asked me to guess where I might one day be maximizing my time with deer and antelope, I probably wouldn’t have picked Abu Dhabi. Especially as I lived in a place called Minnesota, where people hunted Continue reading

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  • April 30, 2014

    Nut Cases in Jordan

    In the Red Sea port of Aqaba, you can relive the romance of Lawrence of Arabia’s adventures on and off film. You’ll discover the CIA-esque intrigue of being able to see Israel/Palestine, Egypt and Saudi Arabia from the same spot. Indeed, it is a grand opportunity to take in a vista of all of the Continue reading

    Food, Jordan, Middle East, recipes
    Al Shaab, Jordan, Middle East nut shops, Nuts, pistachios
  • March 25, 2014

    The Sweet Spot in Arabia

    I have never heard an Arab woman call her sweetheart the Arabic word for honey—or vice versus–even though Arabic is a language with scores of other terms of endearment. I have never read any Arabic children’s stories about goofy bears getting stuck in honey pots, and I’ve never seen honey come in cutely shaped squeezable Continue reading

    Arabs, Food, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Travel
    Arabs, honey, Middle East cuisne, Saudi Arabia
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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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