Are You Listening? is a journey of sound, sight and story. Using poems and stories, this memoir explores intergenerational displacement, and speaks the truths of a woman who loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity, and is forced to navigate a terrain foreign to her ancestors. Through the painful knocks of colonization, Zaynab Mohammed finds her freedom by leaning on the art of listening to herself, to others and to the earth. This book is a carefully woven tapestry of transforming pain into beauty, into magic, and into possibility. What her words uncover are a quenching truth that gives the author access to what she lost as a child — her innocence. (From Pownal Street Press)

Zaynab Mohammed is an Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian performance poet. Are You Listening? is a one-woman show that has been touring since 2023. She lives in Nelson, B.C.