The short film, “Surviving Surveillance, Catering to America: Beef Biryani,” is a visual morsel of Shahina Parveen preparing and cooking her popular Beef Biryani. Despite her family’s ordeal as a result of the unjust 30-year jail sentence of her son, Shahawar Matin Siraj, Shahina refuses to give up the fight. As a food caterer, she creates and delivers complex, nuanced flavor and tastes. For Shahina, cooking provides a familiar focus, even a break, and the possibility to recreate culture and share it in a part of the world that finds her, and people like her, distasteful.
Cooking is an Act of Defiance
Cooking is an Act of Defiance
Cooking is an Act of Defiance
The short film, “Surviving Surveillance, Catering to America: Beef Biryani,” is a visual morsel of Shahina Parveen preparing and cooking her popular Beef Biryani. Despite her family’s ordeal as a result of the unjust 30-year jail sentence of her son, Shahawar Matin Siraj, Shahina refuses to give up the fight. As a food caterer, she creates and delivers complex, nuanced flavor and tastes. For Shahina, cooking provides a familiar focus, even a break, and the possibility to recreate culture and share it in a part of the world that finds her, and people like her, distasteful.