“ This timely project will deliver a fuller understanding of the significance of global conflict in shaping Irish society. ” PATHOS
Bojana Janković, Hannah Khalil and Roxana Manouchehri are three award-winning writers and artists, and PATHOS participants and affiliates. Together, they explore the complex relationship between art practice, food, and conflict. Grounded in their recent works across genres, this event illuminates the often generative but sometimes fraught role of food in art. PATHOS looks at representations of conflict in Irish art and literature, and situates Irish artistic practice in a global context by considering how international conflict reaches Irish shores.
Hannah Khalil is an Irish-Palestinian playwright whose 2024 play My English Persian Kitchen is inspired by the true story of a woman who fled Iran in 2007 to escape her marriage and found comfort in recreating Persian recipes from a distance. Roxana Manouchehri’s 2025 book This Is Not A Cook Book is a hybrid memoir of food writing and lithographic artwork chronicling her childhood in Iran following the Iranian Revolution. In Just Gibanica (2025), Bojana Janković writes about the uncomfortable relationship between food, labour, and migrant workers in the art world.
In conversation with Dr Ailbhe McDaid, leader of the PATHOS project.