Daily Archives: June 3, 2012

Eggplant merchant in Sidon souk

He was calling out the crowd in Sidon’s ancient souk: ” Albak abyad ya aswad!” “Albak abyad ya aswad!” Eggplant is called betenjane in Arabic but in Lebanese it goes by aswad, which is black in Arabic. The rhyme can be translated into the following: Your heart is white O black!  Meaning: Your pulp is [...]
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