Durkhanai Ayubi is an Afghan-born writer. Her work is committed to making conscious the historically generated asymmetries that distort our shared realities by drawing on her lived experience as a refugee to Australia and through reclamation of her own ancestral voice. Her first book, Parwana: Recipes and stories from an Afghan kitchen, received global acclaim. Her new book, She Who Tastes, Knows, offers a resurfaced language of collective possibility through following the nature of food.
Women have joined hands to prepare food as an act of love for family, community and culture for millennia. Passing on recipes and cooking together can preserve cultural memory, empower…
Migration stories of people leaving their homelands can be some of the most moving you’ll ever read – and this is the case for the books written by Durkhanai Ayubi,…
