In her memoir “Always Carry Salt,” Samantha Ellis builds “an ark” for the next generation of her family. It involves culture, cuisine, and history.

I did not mean to write a book about my mother tongue going extinct – because if you’d told me, at any point in my childhood or even until quite recently, that Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, the language of my ...

Asir Salaam Shajaa, the third generation in his family to care for the tomb, dusts off the hand-sewn green cloth used to cover Nahum's Tomb (photo: al Qaisi). Between 1948 and 1951, the vast majority ...