although the bread is flat middle Eastern bread is generally not unleavened,apart from rare exception,such as the below The flat bread of middle East can be indistinguishable from each other.These khoubiz are very similar to the Egyptian aiysh. Aiysh is the egyptian word for life,and these flat loaves must be one of the oldest breads known to mankind. We know that as long ago as 1500 B.C., aisysh was made and sold by Egyptian bakers,and the same baking methods are still used today in some part of the country.