Khubz, khoubz or khobz (Arabic

Arabic language

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: خبز), an Arabic word for bread, but usually used by non-Arabic speakers to refer to a flatbread

Flatbread

A flatbread is a simple bread made with flour, water, and salt and then thoroughly rolled into flattened dough. Many flatbreads are unleavened: made without yeast or sourdough culture: although some flatbread is made with yeast, such as pita bread....

 that forms a staple of the local diet in Arabic-speaking countries from the Arabian Peninsula

Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula is a land mass situated north-east of Africa. Also known as Arabia or the Arabian subcontinent, it is the world's largest peninsula and covers 3,237,500 km2...

 to Morocco

Morocco

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.

Khubz was traditionally baked in a tannuur

Tandoor

A tandoor is a cylindrical clay oven used in cooking and baking. The tandoor is used for cooking in Azerbaijan, India, Turkey, Iran, Armenia, Georgia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central Asia, as well as Burma and Bangladesh.The heat for a tandoor was...

, and six recipes for khubz made in this way are included in Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq

Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq

Abu Muhammad al-Muzaffar ibn Nasr ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq of Baghdad was the compiler of a tenth-century cookbook, al-Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ . This is the earliest known Arabic cookbook.-References:...

's 10th century Kitab al-Tabikh cookery book.

In Iraq

Iraq

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 khubz is produced as a round flatbread. As a result of the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq in the 1990s

Iraq sanctions

The Iraq sanctions were a near-total financial and trade embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council on the nation of Iraq. They began August 6, 1990, four days after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, stayed largely in force until May 2003 , and certain portions including reparations to Kuwait...

 there was an increase in the making of khubz in the traditional way in a clay oven.

See also

• Chapati
  Chapati
  Chapati or Chapatti or Chapathi is an unleavened flatbread from the Indian subcontinent. Versions of it are found in Turkmenistan and in East African countries Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania...
  
  
• Naan
  Naan
  Naan is a leavened, oven-baked flatbread. It is typical of and popular in South and Central Asia, in Iran, and in South Asian restaurants abroad. Influenced by the large influx of South Asian labour, naan has also become popular in Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states.Originally, naan is a...
  
  
• Pita bread
• Roti
  Roti
  Roti is generally a South Asian bread made from stoneground wholemeal flour, traditionally known as atta flour, that originated and is consumed in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. It is also consumed in parts of the Southern Caribbean, particularly in Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and...
  
  
• Saj (bread)
• Tortilla
  Tortilla
  In Mexico and Central America, a tortilla is a type of thin, unleavened flat bread, made from finely ground maize...
  
  
• Taboon bread
  Taboon bread
  Taboon bread ) is a flatbread wrap used in many cuisines. It is traditionally baked in a taboon oven and eaten with different fillings.Taboon bread is sold as street food, stuffed with hummus, falafel or shaved meat...