Zeba Talkhani

Photo by Sarah Cresswell for The Times

Intersectional feminist and author Zeba Talkhani talks with Alya Michelson about her experience leaving her native Saudi Arabia, finding her voice and passions, and her hopes for a more connected post-COVID world.

Having lived in Saudi Arabia, Germany, and now England, her autobiography My Past is a Foreign Country conveys the spectrum of joy, fear, and pride that came from self-discovery through her beautiful global journey.

“Through community, through what I am seeing online, seeing ideas being shared and support being shared has been very interesting. I feel like a lot of immigrant communities in London are coming together and supporting each other that was not so visible before.”

- Zeba Talkhani