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The Age
23-06-2025
- The Age
Find riffs on Palestinian dishes at a homely Coburg cafe that honours its owner's grandmother
Previous SlideNext Slide Middle Eastern$ Rahaf Al Khatib channels Palestinian recipes from her mother and grandmother at Beit Siti ('grandmother's home') in Coburg. Following on from her Falastini food truck, this cafe and cultural centre exudes home-style warmth with family photos and Al Khatib's own house plants. Fresh baked goods with Palestinian twists include musakhan focaccia with confit onion, almonds, sumac and cauliflower; a Danish filled with strawberry, pomegranate and dill jam, and house-made labneh; and a zaatar croissant with pickled chilli and baladiyeh, a firm 'village cheese'. There are also grab-and-go sandwiches such as chicken mortadella with smoked pepper spread, spinach and labneh. Al Khatib plans for the breakfast menu to showcase different regional specialties of Palestine including mub'atra, a dish of scrambled eggs with potato, parsley and green chilli. Constance coffee is brewed with cardamom or served espresso-style.
Sydney Morning Herald
23-06-2025
- Sydney Morning Herald
Find riffs on Palestinian dishes at a homely Coburg cafe that honours its owner's grandmother
Previous SlideNext Slide Middle Eastern$ Rahaf Al Khatib channels Palestinian recipes from her mother and grandmother at Beit Siti ('grandmother's home') in Coburg. Following on from her Falastini food truck, this cafe and cultural centre exudes home-style warmth with family photos and Al Khatib's own house plants. Fresh baked goods with Palestinian twists include musakhan focaccia with confit onion, almonds, sumac and cauliflower; a Danish filled with strawberry, pomegranate and dill jam, and house-made labneh; and a zaatar croissant with pickled chilli and baladiyeh, a firm 'village cheese'. There are also grab-and-go sandwiches such as chicken mortadella with smoked pepper spread, spinach and labneh. Al Khatib plans for the breakfast menu to showcase different regional specialties of Palestine including mub'atra, a dish of scrambled eggs with potato, parsley and green chilli. Constance coffee is brewed with cardamom or served espresso-style.
Sydney Morning Herald
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Three family-run Middle Eastern restaurants with soul in spades
Whether it's because of trouble elsewhere in the world or a desire for homely hangouts when times are tough, Melbourne's seeing a fresh wave of family-run establishments opening their doors. There's the homely cafe honouring a grandmother's legacy with cafe riffs on Palestinian dishes, a trio of co-joined Syrian eateries now bigger and better after a fire, and the friends who have teamed up to share little-seen dishes from their homeland, Egypt. Beit Siti Rahaf Al Khatib channels Palestinian recipes from her mother and grandmother at Beit Siti ('grandmother's home'), her new venue in Coburg. Following on from her Falastini food truck, this cafe and cultural centre exudes home-style warmth with family photos and Al Khatib's own house plants. Fresh baked goods with Palestinian twists include musakhan focaccia with confit onion, almonds, sumac and cauliflower; a Danish filled with strawberry, pomegranate and dill jam, and house-made labneh; and a zaatar croissant with pickled chilli and baladiyeh, a firm 'village cheese'. There are also grab-and-go sandwiches such as chicken mortadella with smoked pepper spread, spinach and labneh.
The Age
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Three family-run Middle Eastern restaurants with soul in spades
Whether it's because of trouble elsewhere in the world or a desire for homely hangouts when times are tough, Melbourne's seeing a fresh wave of family-run establishments opening their doors. There's the homely cafe honouring a grandmother's legacy with cafe riffs on Palestinian dishes, a trio of co-joined Syrian eateries now bigger and better after a fire, and the friends who have teamed up to share little-seen dishes from their homeland, Egypt. Beit Siti Rahaf Al Khatib channels Palestinian recipes from her mother and grandmother at Beit Siti ('grandmother's home'), her new venue in Coburg. Following on from her Falastini food truck, this cafe and cultural centre exudes home-style warmth with family photos and Al Khatib's own house plants. Fresh baked goods with Palestinian twists include musakhan focaccia with confit onion, almonds, sumac and cauliflower; a Danish filled with strawberry, pomegranate and dill jam, and house-made labneh; and a zaatar croissant with pickled chilli and baladiyeh, a firm 'village cheese'. There are also grab-and-go sandwiches such as chicken mortadella with smoked pepper spread, spinach and labneh.
Asharq Al-Awsat
27-05-2025
- General
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Germany Arrests Syrian Accused of Crimes Under Assad
An alleged former Syrian prison guard has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity under former president Bashar al-Assad, prosecutors said Tuesday. The man, identified only as Fahad A., is accused of "acts of killing, torture and deprivation of liberty" while he worked in a Damascus facility run by Syrian intelligence in 2011 and 2012. German authorities have pursued several suspects for crimes committed in Syria's civil war under the principle of universal jurisdiction, even after Assad's ouster last December. Prosecutors declined to give Fahad's age or the year he came to Germany but said he was arrested in the town of Pirmasens in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate. During his time at the Al-Khatib detention center, also known as Branch 251, Fahad A. allegedly "took part in well over 100 interrogations where prisoners were subjected to severe physical abuse, for instance electrocution or beatings with cables", they said. "Following his superiors' orders, the suspect also harassed prisoners at night by, for example, hanging them from the ceiling, pouring cold water over them or forcing them to remain in uncomfortable positions," prosecutors allege. At least 70 prisoners are thought to have died due to such abuse and the "catastrophic" prison conditions. The alleged offenses occurred in the years of the bloody repression of anti-Assad protests during their uprising against his regime. "The objective was to suppress the protest movement from early on and to intimidate the population," prosecutors said. In 2022 former Syrian colonel Anwar Raslan was found guilty of overseeing the murders of 27 people and the torture of 4,000 others at the Al-Khatib center in 2011 and 2012. That was the first international trial over state-sponsored torture in Syrian prisons and was hailed as "historic" by human rights activists. Europe's biggest economy, then ruled by chancellor Angela Merkel, granted safe haven to hundreds of thousands of Syrians during the 2015-16 refugee influx. NGOs warned at the time of the danger that people accused of atrocities against civilians for Assad's government were arriving incognito in Europe and obtaining asylum. Opposition factions toppled Assad in December after five decades of his family's iron-fisted rule and nearly 14 years of brutal war that killed more than half a million people and displaced millions more.
