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My writing and work are, at their heart, about bridging across the gaps that have been pried open within us all.

In a world where our collective norms have long been shaped by fragmentation and hierarchy, these combative oppositions seep into and fill our lives and our bodies – carrying us further away from ourselves, one another and the nature we are part of. I reframe the world through a lens that has formed by deeply sinking into the story that is mine.

I notice the abundance and potency that lives in the silences and liminal spaces I inhabit. It is alive in the negated layers of my Afghan ancestry, in my reclaimed sense of my womanhood, in my immersion in the outsider perspectives inherent to my refugee trajectory and diasporic life. My work is not a resistance or a refutation against the confinements around us – but a generativity and a sentiment that emerges from our shared and unceasing wellspring of existence.

My relationship to food forms the aroma and the rearticulated language of my offerings. From its grounding and orienting role throughout my family’s early journey and into my present-day life – it is through food’s vitality and propensity towards reconciliation that I form my reimagination of what is possible. Food carries the complexity, the memory, the emotion, and the shades of light and dark we each carry. From seed to roots and fruit, from raw to ripe, it is an innate devotion to invitation and an adoration of transformation.

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