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Small grains rolled by hand from bulgur and wheat flour and steamed over a broth of meat and vegetables in a two-tiered pot. WAFA’s information centre names it among what Jaffa is known for; in Gaza it is cooked with chicken, and with lamb at Eid al-Adha; and every October a maftoul festival in Birzeit brings women from fifteen villages to cook it in their own ways.
Travel Palestine, the tourism portal of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: every October the Maftoul Festival is held in the West Bank village of Birzeit, where women from 15 different Palestinian villages prepare couscous dishes in their traditional styles.
Evidence version: travel-palestine-couscous:v1
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Travel Palestine, the tourism portal of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: every October the Maftoul Festival is held in the West Bank village of Birzeit, where women from 15 different Palestinian villages prepare couscous dishes in their traditional styles.
Evidence version: travel-palestine-couscous:v1
References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.