{"id":39840,"date":"2025-08-18T21:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=39840"},"modified":"2025-08-18T22:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:01:04","slug":"when-turkey-meets-egypt-in-a-tomato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=39840","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen Turkey Meets Egypt in a Tomato\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry: Ashraf AboArafe<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Upon the windy crest of Solukra A\u011fac,<br \/>\nwhere the air is sharp, cool, and pure,<br \/>\nmy sister\u2019s garden breathes its quiet song.<br \/>\nThere, the tomatoes rise from earth untouched,<br \/>\nfirm of body, full of flesh,<br \/>\ntheir taste a deep echo upon the tongue,<br \/>\na truth that lingers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once, in Ismailia, we found their kin\u2014<br \/>\nfor a fleeting month they lived among us.<br \/>\nWe bought them by the crate,<br \/>\ntheir flavor a marriage of tartness and sweet,<br \/>\na fleeting miracle of clay, not sand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so, my friends of Ismailia,<br \/>\nif ever you find again those fruits I praise,<br \/>\nkeep them for me.<br \/>\nFor one who has tasted such a gift<br \/>\nwill never make peace with the lesser kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry: Ashraf AboArafe Upon the windy crest of Solukra A\u011fac, where the air is sharp, cool, and pure, my sister\u2019s garden breathes its quiet song. There, the tomatoes rise from earth untouched, firm of body, full of flesh, their taste a deep echo upon the tongue, a truth that lingers. Once, in Ismailia, we found &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,388],"tags":[426,21401,2875,653,2726],"class_list":["post-39840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editor","category-slide","tag-egypt","tag-in-a-tomato","tag-meets","tag-turkey","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39841,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39840\/revisions\/39841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}