Durkhanai Ayubi

Durkhanai Ayubi (born 1985)[1] is an Afghan food expert, restaurateur, and prize-winning cookbook author based in Adelaide, Australia.

Since 2018, she has been a member of the Atlantic Fellows program based at the London School of Economics, which aims to address global inequities through collective action.

[8] Ayubi's mother is the cousin of Sayd Majrouh (1928-1988), the philosopher, poet, journalist, diplomat and literary scholar, best known for his epic poem, Ego-Monstre, and work monitoring the impact of the Soviet War as the director of the Afghan Information Center.

In 2021, The Guardian featured recipes from Parwana, along with a story about Durkhanai Ayubi and her mother Farida, in its series on Australian food and drink.

[20] Among those who have praised Ayubi and her book Parwana are the British food writer Nigella Lawson and the Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai.

The award recognized her work on behalf of migrants to Australia and noted her efforts to raise more than $180,000 for Afghans affected by the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban regime in 2021.