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For the Uyghur Diaspora, the Taste of Home Brings Both Joy and Sorrow

A Taste of Home

Jewher Ilham is a 31-year-old Uyghur residing in the U.S., and the dishes she grew up eating continue to remind her of home. But her relationship with these flavors changed after her father was arrested back in China and later sentenced to life in prison on charges of “separatism.”