Restaurateur Abdul Elenani, 31, owns Ayat, a chain of popular Palestinian eateries named after his wife, a 34-year-old lawyer, and the daughter of Palestinian immigrants. The restaurant caused a ...

Falafel. Palestinian Street Food.” Ayat is all that and more. Orders to stay or to go are taken at the end of a long glass counter, behind which are displayed trays of whipped hummus ...

Last week, Palestinian restaurant Ayat was flooded with one-star negative reviews in response to the restaurant’s outspoken identity and its “call to end apartheid.” Those reviews have ...