A female brewer heads Oktoberfest in West Financial institution
The once-a-year Oktoberfest this weekend at Taybeh brewery in the occupied West Bank is a beer festival like no other. At any time considering that 1994 it has operated underneath demanding situations. Now the Palestinian brewery is operate by a lady, Madees Khoury, incorporating an further layer of complication. Khoury claims she is the very first, and possibly the only feminine brewer in West Asia, and heads a beer dynasty which has turned the compact Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution into a world beer brand name. Launched in 2005, Oktoberfest at Taybeh is about Palestinian id, beer and politics. Khoury is a female in a male-dominated marketplace. “Girls in the beer business have it incredibly hard,” she reported. “But I think I have it added complicated becoming in a male-dominated place, an Arab country and under occupation – so it really is four or 5 situations more durable than for anyplace else.”