The New York Times has awarded what the paper says is its first-ever four star review of a restaurant outside of New York City—to what the review describes as "a Palestinian restaurant" in Washington, D.C., that has existed since 2020 but reopened in 2025 stressing the Palestinian aspect. The restaurant, Albi, includes on its website a portion of a poem by Mahmoud Darwish, who resigned from the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee in protest in 1993 in opposition to the Oslo