Olive oil

April 22, 2019

Earth Day & Best of the Fest Connection

The Golden Harvest will have an encore screening at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival as part of the Best of the Fest screenings–Super! Wednesday, April 24 at 4:50 pm at St. Anthony Main: https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=436771~36893ed1-b0b9-423c-bbab-90f22d0aeafe&epguid=78d5df86-076b-41eb-9b27-8d9e012642d6& I lived in a house only once in my life. For three years. It was in Minnesota in Continue reading

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Arab female filmmakers, artists, Authors, Film, Food, Greece, Italy, Olive oil, Women, Writing
February 28, 2019

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

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Culture, Film, film festival, Food, Olive oil, Olive Tree, Oman, Television, Thessaloniki Internatnional Film Festival, Writing
September 26, 2015

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 20, 2009

Mathematics and Olive Oil

In The Night Counter, Fatima is fixated on numbers and it is something that runs through the family for five generations. She thinks about math when’s she’s cooking, too, as any woman who raised 14 kids probably would—how much to make for each one, how much it was costing, and so forth. And how many Continue reading

Arabs, Author, Food, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine

Author, math, Olive oil, The Night Counter

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.

Olive oil

Earth Day & Best of the Fest Connection

The Schedule for Thessaloniki International Film Festival

The Golden Harvest in Post Production

The Golden Harvest Time

Mathematics and Olive Oil