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Fatayer

Type	Meat pie
Place of origin	Levant
Region or state	Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen
Main ingredients	Meat, spinach, cheese or za'atar
Media: Fatayer

Fatayer (Standard Arabic: فطائر, romanized: faṭāʾir; Levantine Arabic: فطاير, romanized: faṭāyir; sg. فطيرة, faṭīra) are meat pies that can alternatively be stuffed with spinach or cheese such as feta or akkawi.^[1] They are part of Levantine cuisine and are eaten in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.^{[citation needed]} Fatayer are also popular in Argentina, where they are considered a variety of empanada under the name empanadas árabes (sg. empanada árabe), and in Brazil, where they are known as esfihas fechadas ("closed sfihas", sg. esfiha fechada).^{[citation needed]}