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    Apr 26, 2019 3 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPH BY KELSEY MCCLELLAN
    Anissa Helou is the author of several cookbooks, including
    Feast: Food of the Islamic World
    (Ecco, 2018). She’s profiled on page 20.

    sunset, and the square of Al Hussein mosque in Cairo was packed. People were sitting at outdoor tables at the many restaurants and cafés lining the square, but despite the crowds, no one was talking. And although the tables were laid with small plates of bread, dates, ivory tahina (a lemony dip made with tahini), and

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