aish

They are the world's largest consumer of "aish" -- Egyptian Arabic for bread and life -- and its price and scarcity have been skyrocketing, along with other food staples like rice and pasta.

Freddy Deknatel: In Egypt, Where Everything Can be Yogurt, Bread is Getting Too Expensive 2008

In Egypt, the Arabic word for bread - "aish" - is also the world for life.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

In Egypt, the Arabic word for bread - "aish" - is also the world for life.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

There is, however, a very similar desert called aish al-saraya or "bread of the mansion."

Archive 2009-03-01 Mercedes 2009

There is, however, a very similar desert called aish al-saraya or "bread of the mansion."

Kunafe and Aish al-Saraya Mercedes 2009

They reclined against large overstuffed pillows and dined on mashi - a selection of cold pepper, tomatoes, zucchini and miniature eggplant stuffed with a lightly spiced rice; labon zabadi - Egyptian yogurt that had been flavored with strawberry preserve; a salad of spicy tomatoes and soft white cheese eaten with pieces of thin Egyptian bread called aish shami; a kabob made of lean pieces of lamb cut into small cubes and marinated in a mixture of onion shavings, parsley, marjoram, lemon juice, salt and pepper before being skewered and grilled over hot charcoal; and umm ali - an exquisite bread pudding topped with pine nuts and milk and served piping hot.

From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

Look no further than Egypt, where a loaf of flat "aish" sells for less that one cent, to take stock of rising world food prices and the extent of a looming global economic crisis that is affecting far more than just American voters in an election season.

Freddy Deknatel: In Egypt, Where Everything Can be Yogurt, Bread is Getting Too Expensive 2008

In Egypt, where wheat makes up a third of the population's diet, the local word for bread, "aish," means life.

Mideast Staggered by Cost of Wheat Liam Pleven 2011

October 7th, 2009 at 7: 38 am aish. com has some very good information but this doesnt seem to be one of there better entries.

Are The Jewish Right About This? « Literacy Instruction « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009

I always think of 'aish el saraya, sometimes translated as Middle Eastern bread pudding, as Egyptian, but you're just as likely to find it in Lebanon or elsewhere.

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