SECOND WAVE Media publishes a new story, February 4, 2011:
With three businesses and more on the way, the Mandwee brothers are sharing their culture with Kalamazoo. Writer Zinta Aistars talks with Habib Mandwee about making a home in the United States and sharing some of home with others.
Habib Mandwee leans his chin into the palm of his hand and lets his mind wander to a dream. He remembers being a boy in Baghdad, Iraq, and spending long, lazy days watching the family cow graze. Perhaps, he muses, someday he might have a small farm. A cow or two grazing in the pasture, sheep, even goats...
Mandwee perks up from his daydream, sips a bit of Massan, a Lebanese red wine, and dips a crisp point of pita into fragrant olive oil before rolling it in a complex mix of Arabic spices. His watchful eye falls not on grazing livestock, but on the open space of Zooroona, a Middle Eastern restaurant and lounge at the opposite corner of an L-shaped strip mall dominated by Tiffany's Wine & Spirit Shoppe, 1714 W. Main Street ...
Read the FULL ARTICLE at Second Wave.
Photography by Erik Holladay.
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| Habib Mandwee at Zooroona |
With three businesses and more on the way, the Mandwee brothers are sharing their culture with Kalamazoo. Writer Zinta Aistars talks with Habib Mandwee about making a home in the United States and sharing some of home with others.
Habib Mandwee leans his chin into the palm of his hand and lets his mind wander to a dream. He remembers being a boy in Baghdad, Iraq, and spending long, lazy days watching the family cow graze. Perhaps, he muses, someday he might have a small farm. A cow or two grazing in the pasture, sheep, even goats...
Mandwee perks up from his daydream, sips a bit of Massan, a Lebanese red wine, and dips a crisp point of pita into fragrant olive oil before rolling it in a complex mix of Arabic spices. His watchful eye falls not on grazing livestock, but on the open space of Zooroona, a Middle Eastern restaurant and lounge at the opposite corner of an L-shaped strip mall dominated by Tiffany's Wine & Spirit Shoppe, 1714 W. Main Street ...
Read the FULL ARTICLE at Second Wave.
Photography by Erik Holladay.
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