On October 24, 2012 a Predator drone flying over North Waziristan came upon eight-year-old Nabila Rehman, her siblings, and their grandmother as they worked in a field beside their village home.

Nabila’s operates 99% like a standard, sit-down restaurant. You will sit down, for example, especially if it’s closer to opening, before the place crowds up.

Nabila Mango, founder of the Aswat Ensemble, is many things. ... Sunday's concert will reflect Mango's ethnographic research of Palestinian village songs going back 800 to 1,000 years.

That Nabila is now the headliner at her middle son’s Brooklyn restaurant is a bit of a surprise. She didn’t work in a professional kitchen until she was 40.

The pride Nabila’s takes in its food is so obvious that I’m at a loss to explain the pita. It’s awful, stiff and leathery, not at all what you expect on the edge of one of New York’s ...