Dianna Wray

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Dianna Wray is a nationally award-winning journalist and editor from Houston, Texas, and the current editor-in-chief of Houstonia magazine.

Articles by Dianna Wray

Khobez Timur: A Date-and-Fig Recipe for Better Living

Khobez Timur: A Date-and-Fig Recipe for Better Living

A take on this date-and-fig bread-loaf recipe from the recent 10th-anniversary reissue of Sally Butcher’s New Middle Eastern Street Food does more than just satiate our sweet tooth. It offers a guide for savoring the simpler things in life.
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Talking Tut: A Conversation With Author Christina Riggs

Talking Tut: A Conversation With Author Christina Riggs

In Treasured, Riggs, a professor of the history at Durham University in England, details and analyzes complex cultural and political forces behind the scenes, both in Egypt and around the world, that have shaped and determined the nature of King Tut’s post-mortal second act. Here AramcoWorld talks with her about pulling together the real story behind the blue-and-white-striped death mask—and everything the blank-eyed golden face of Tutankhamun has come to represent, both to herself and to the world.

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Muslim Perspectives on European Connections: A Conversation with Historian Ian Coller

Muslim Perspectives on European Connections: A Conversation with Historian Ian Coller

It wasn’t until he found himself thousands of kilometers from his native Australia in September 2001 that Coller, a UCLA-Irvine professor of history, began to realize that his seemingly disparate early interests in French culture, Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, his longing to understand the Middle East and his determination to speak Arabic were all parts of his innate fascination with people. 

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Bibi Zogbé: The Flower Painter

Bibi Zogbé: The Flower Painter

Except for a rare self-portrait, Bibi Zogbé painted flowers—exuberant and confident, as well as modern and symbolic, her paintings reflect her life between her native Lebanon and three decades in Argentina.
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Refuge in Recipes: The Research Journey of Nawal Nasrallah

Refuge in Recipes: The Research Journey of Nawal Nasrallah

It was time for the family to sit down for dinner at Nawal Nasrallah’s home in Bloomington, Indiana. Nasrallah had made her 18-year-old daughter Iba’s favorite dish, Iraqi-style eggplant biryani, in honor of the college acceptance letter Iba had just received. Iba spooned the biryani onto her plate, took a bite and burst into tears. “Where am I going to find food like this at school?” she asked.
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Pakistani Art Trucks on a Bridge of Culture

Pakistani Art Trucks on a Bridge of Culture

Colorfully painted trucks are everywhere in Pakistan, but in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a single truck by a renowned artist is helping an arts nonprofit jump-start international cultural appreciation in schools.
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