Ma’moul Cookies are served during celebrations in the Middle East. This recipe comes to us from Soha Yassine. Soha is the youth coordinator at the Islamic Center of Southern California. This Saturday ...

Experts debate the origin of the date- or nut-filled pastry, but Middle Eastern believers love the taste and the Good Friday symbolism in its shapes. The Middle East’s favorite sweet symbolizes Good ...

Owner of Helwayat Al-Salam, Mitri Hanna Moussa. Mitri's family has been making maamoul for decades – even before they had an oven to bake them in. Sawsan Abu Farha, a Palentinian-Jordanian food ...

Jewish people eat these short bread cookies stuffed with date paste or chopped walnuts or pistachios and dusted with powdered sugar at Purim, while Christians enjoy them at Easter and Muslims serve ...

“For me, food has always been a language: It’s a way that I could connect with other people and show love,” Umber Ahmad says while rolling ma’amoul cookie dough in her Dumbo kitchen. Outside, there’s ...

From the BBC World Service: As Lebanon struggles with triple-digit inflation and a sharply rising poverty rate, people making festive maamoul cookies are changing their recipes due to rising food ...

Be it Easter or Eid, holidays in the Levantine region of the Middle East are incomplete without a shortbread cookie called maamoul. Stuffed with date paste or chopped walnuts or pistachios, and dusted ...

Maamoul, a shortbread cookie stuffed with date paste or chopped walnuts or pistachios and dusted with powdered sugar, is the perfect reward after a month of fasting during Ramadan and Lent. These ...