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Aram RestaurantAram Restaurant

138 South Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
(310) 859-8585

"Arams is a jewel of Beverly Hills. I have tried almost all of their menu there...my favorite are their Beef and chicken Kabobs... Seasoned and cooked to perfection, your mouth will water with every bite." "The food was good. I had Tahdig, Shirazi, and Beef Barg (my usual at a Persian restaurant). My friends had the Soltani and some chicken dish that I forgot the name of.  The staff here are friendly."

Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey: your purchase benefits LCC programmingDream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, An Exile's Journey by Joyce Zonana (Feminist Press 2008) chronicles this author's quest to find a sense of home among people, foods, and places as far from her native Cairo as Oklahoma and Katrina-stricken New Orleans.

After the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, newlyweds Felix and Nellie Zonana flee Cairo with their infant daughter Joyce, ending up in Brooklyn. Growing up, Joyce swiftly realizes that her Jewish family and their Egyptian culture are neither typically American nor typically American—Jewish; they eat kobeba instead of kugel and speak French instead of Yiddish. Struggling with her feelings of isolation from other Americans and frustrated by never getting full access to Egyptian-Jewish culture, Zonana sets out on a life-long journey to find her place in the world.