Food for Palestine will team up with restaurants, artisans and customers hungry to make a difference at this weekend's festival.

Palestinian food, as Bilasan says, has also been stolen and rebranded as Israeli or Mediterranean. Chicago is home to popular Palestinian-owned cafes, Nabala in Uptown and Oud in River North.

Three Israeli men held hostage in the Gaza Strip are set to be released on Saturday in exchange for more than 300 Palestinian ...