While living in China, I noticed that the Uighur also have a kind of bread (nang) that is both boiled and baked and in a tire shape--although the hole doesn't go all the way through. My guess is that the bagel is not specifically Jewish, but a kind of bread shared by many peoples of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

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Bagels in Strange Places [66 words]	Charles Bayar	Oct 27, 2008 17:04
Challah in dubai [69 words]	Stuart Teich	Oct 26, 2008 19:43
Jewish food in Dubai [69 words]	Barbara	Oct 26, 2008 15:01
In Dubai..Bagels that's only the beginning KERZNER GROUP'S building the Atlantis and The World! [160 words]	Warren Sound	Sep 18, 2008 07:31
Bagels are no longer Jewish [178 words]	John Philips	Sep 15, 2008 05:46
↔ Shocks me how people are eager to misrepresent Dr. Pipes words. [487 words]	Ynnatchkah	Sep 18, 2008 03:06
↔ They've Always Learned Quickly from Us [50 words]	Reality Check	Nov 1, 2008 22:54
Off Topic Post - Why isn't America's Media Reporting On India Capital Bombing? [41 words]	Larry	Sep 13, 2008 17:14
↔ For Larry [18 words]	Liliana	Sep 17, 2008 06:55
Are you sure they are not doughnuts? [15 words]	Sean Higgins	Sep 9, 2008 15:38
bagels in Dubai [11 words]	Jon Purizhansky	Sep 5, 2008 15:06
Next? [16 words]	Lynn	Sep 2, 2008 10:45
Consider it a Cultural Exchange. [10 words]	Ahmad	Aug 31, 2008 00:39
↔ Hummus and the Arabs [290 words]	dhimmi no more	Sep 6, 2008 07:36
↔ Didn't mean to say hummus is Arab [61 words]	Ahmad	Sep 25, 2008 07:48
↔ Bagles and Hummus: And the saga continues [139 words]	dhimmi no more	Sep 27, 2008 08:17
islamist would say bagels are muslim, like Jerusalem. [50 words]	Phil Greend	Aug 30, 2008 20:18
↔ Jerusalem IS Muslim.....and [37 words]	Ahmad	Sep 25, 2008 07:54
⇒ So what [60 words]	Peter Herz	Aug 20, 2008 08:03
Forget the Bagel, the attendant looks like an Israeli soldier [117 words]	Lame Cherry	Aug 20, 2008 02:05
↔ Lame Cherry I love your post! [37 words]	mytwocents	Aug 25, 2008 07:35
↔ Disagree [96 words]	Ynnatchkah	Aug 25, 2008 12:27
↔ hmm [19 words]	Murad Atakan	Sep 5, 2008 07:35
↔ How did Taqiyah come into this convo? Are you disillusioned? [125 words]	Murad Atakan	Sep 6, 2008 04:56
Dubai [47 words]	JJ	Aug 19, 2008 22:36
Why not? [143 words]	Rebecca Moulds	Aug 18, 2008 11:50
alcohol and the Bagel. [53 words]	Ynnatchkah	Aug 16, 2008 22:44
Bagles in the sky [129 words]	dhimmi no more	Aug 16, 2008 18:28
↔ You are priceless, Dhimmi No More [17 words]	Ynnatchkah	Aug 17, 2008 23:42
↔ John who walks with ice [55 words]	jennifer solis	Aug 18, 2008 15:17
↔ so what?? [81 words]	mytwocents	Aug 19, 2008 07:14
↔ Is she a blonde? [29 words]	Lynn	Aug 26, 2008 08:17

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