Durkhanai Ayubi

Durkhanai Ayubi is an Afghan-born writer, whose body of work seeks reclamation of the stories of her motherland, exploration of the experience of displacement, and interrogation of the limitations embedded within normalized notions of justice and power. Her book Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen received global acclaim, winning international awards including from the Food Writers Guild and the Art of Eating prize. She has been featured in national and global media, spanning TV, print, podcasts and radio, including in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post and beyond. She has worked extensively in the arts, including contributing to the curation of national literary festivals. She is a Lifelong Fellow of the Atlantic Institute, a social justice focused Fellowship based at Oxford University, where her work takes on global dimensions. Her research here has involved creating frameworks for transformative justice with narrative reclamation at its heart. Her book She Who Tastes, Knows asks through a lens of food and peering into the unseen what more is possible when stories and histories are returned to a people.