BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Koalagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Seedbomb METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:Australia/Adelaide BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20260405T030000 RDATE:20260405T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1030 TZOFFSETTO:+0930 TZNAME:ACST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260521T075721Z DTEND;TZID=Australia/Adelaide;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260615T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Adelaide;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260615T183000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260521T075721Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260521T075721Z UID:https://seedbomb.au/events/410 DESCRIPTION:The power of a story. Join us this Refugee Week for a special event with Durkhanai Ayubi\, bestselling author of Parwana and her late st release She Who Tastes\, Knows\, A memoir of food\, exile and awakeni ng. \;\n \;\nDurkhanai will join us to discuss her story of coming to Australia as a refugee and her journey to becoming the owner of her much-loved award-winning Adelaide family restaurant\, Parwana\, as well as publishing her best selling debut book Parwana and her latest memoir\ , She Who Tastes\, Knows. \;\n \;\nAbout the book: \;\nShe Who Tastes\, Knows is an expansive history of Durkhanai's homeland and a viv id\, moving story about what it truly means to understand another's cult ure. Through stories of food\, family\, belonging and migration\, the bo ok traverses cultural boundaries\, weaving a tapestry of dignity\, empat hy and understanding. Each chapter draws on a particular ingredient impo rtant to Durkhanai's cultural identity\, and explores their life cycles to uncover unseen histories of Afghan culture\, the complexities of migr ant and refugee experience\, and how we as a society might work towards unifying our disparate cultures and ways of seeing the world. In our mod ern world\, which can feel so disjointed\, this book shows us – with tim eless prescience – how new possibilities for connection are just under t he surface\, waiting to bloom. \;\n \;\nAbout the Author: \;\n& #13\;\nDurkhanai Ayubi was born in Afghanistan in the 1980's\, and she a nd her family became refugees when she was a small child. She's grown to see her ancestral lands be misunderstood as a desolate war zone of help less people\, with no history or culture worthy of mention\, when the re ality is in fact steeped in rich\, complex histories of incredible cultu ral significance. Living in Australia\, Durkhanai's only tangible connec tion to the histories of her homeland was through food\, first through c ooking with her family\, and then as an owner of her much-loved award-wi nning Adelaide family restaurant\, Parwana. Years on\, and following Afg hanistan's systemic collapse in 2021\, Durkhanai realised that it was ti me to revisit those histories and tell the previously untold stories tha t can help shape a more optimistic future.\n\nTags: Refugee\, talk\, boo k launch\n\nImported from: https://seedbomb.au/events/410 URL:https://events.humanitix.com/sa-refugee-week-author-event-durkhanai-a yubi SUMMARY:SA Refugee Week Event: Durkhanai Ayubi - talk and book launch LOCATION:Campbelltown Public Library: \, Campbelltown SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR