Often made for guests, fatta is heir to a long Arab tradition of serving roasted meat with broth-soaked bread, said to be the favorite food of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). This is Gaza’s much-loved version, although the chicken or rabbit fatta served in modern Gaza would have been an embarrassment in more prosperous days. Several of the older women we interviewed described how, in the past, a guest’s arrival warranted the slaughter of a sheep, which would be roasted whole and