Family, Exile & Food: Middle Eastern Stories

03/08/2026
60 min
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Stella Darvey Joory and Linda Dangoor join Lyn Julius for a rich conversation on heritage, exile and the worlds we carry with us. In Rachel: A Life in a Turbulent Century, Joory reconstructs her mother’s remarkable journey from Damascus to Baghdad and beyond, tracing the seismic political upheavals that reshaped Middle Eastern Jewish life. Dangoor’s From the Tigris to the Thames blends memoir and cookbook, charting her own path from Baghdad to London through the flavours and memories of a vanished world. Together, these authors explore identity, displacement and the enduring threads of culture that bind generations.

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Stella Darvey Joory

Originally from Baghdad, she arrived in Israel with her family as a refugee at the age of five. They later moved to Hamburg, Germany, where she spent her formative years in a multicultural environment. She pursued her passion for literature and philosophy at Sussex University, earning a BA in English Literature and Philosophy and a […]

Linda Dangoor

Linda Dangoor is a designer, painter and ceramicist and now a food writer. She was born in Baghdad and came to the UK in the early 1960s. A graduate of the Central School of Art and Design, she has worked in the design field for many years, specialising in stationery, greeting cards and other products […]

Lyn Julius

Lyn Julius was born in the UK and educated at the French Lycée in London and the University of Sussex. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq, she is a journalist and founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington […]

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Family, Exile & Food: Middle Eastern Stories

03/08/2026
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60 min

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Stella Darvey Joory

Originally from Baghdad, she arrived in Israel with her family as a refugee at the age of five. They later moved to Hamburg, Germany,...

Linda Dangoor

Linda Dangoor is a designer, painter and ceramicist and now a food writer. She was born in Baghdad and came to the UK in...

Lyn Julius

Lyn Julius was born in the UK and educated at the French Lycée in London and the University of Sussex. The daughter of Jewish...