enjoys the almost-sacred status of national symbol. Here, the “king of fruit,” as it’s known locally (partly due to the crown-like shape of its sepals), plays an outsize role in both cuisine ...

In protest, people began to wave the fruit in public ... Three decades later, "it became a national symbol” again, Mansour said. A year ago, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister ...

In response to the ongoing war and the different debates around it, people are using watermelon images to communicate solidarity with the Palestinians — because the fruit's colors match the ...

Iraq's national symbol, form lines that extend from the edge of the desert near the central city of Karbala and into the horizon. Iraq's prized trees are central to a push aimed to preserve a ...