Chocolate Bread with Dates and Pistachios

I love dates in bread—they are very sweet just on their own, and lend their sweetness to the bread. The date palm is a versatile, important plant. It is a tree that continues to grow and give fruit for over 100 years, letting old leaves fall off as new ones are formed, the stack growing higher and higher. There is a myth that after the world was created, Allah made the date palm out of the material left over from fashioning Adam. This is a delightful bread, replete with the exotic flavors o