Culinary Bonds: How Everyday Food Practices Foster Belonging Among Syrian Refugee & Turkish Host Women in Gaziantep – Ayda Pomeshikov

Posted: 5/15/2025 ()

Ayda Apa Pomeshikov is a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies. Her research interests include forced migration, refugee and diaspora studies, comparative humanitarian studies, and gender in Muslim-majority contexts. She is writing her dissertation, ‘The Prophet Was a Refugee Too: Syrian Refugee Women’s Search for Belonging in Turkey,’ for which she conducted two years of ethnographic research as a United States Institute of Peace Fellow from 2019 to 2021.

Rawan Arar (Law, Societies, and Justice) will host a student lunch and discussion at 1:30pm following the talk on the topic of Job Market, Career Trajectories, and Professional Development. The lunch will take place in Raitt 221. RSVP to Jill Fulmore at fulmore@uw.edu.