About

Freelance creative working across the cultural and educational sector; published poet, performance artist, practitioner and award-winning community activist. Anti-racism advisor for Curious Minds & Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres.

BBC Words First Finalist, awarded Steve Biko Young Achievers, featured 100 Inspirational Women of Merseyside and Future List 2022 of Northern Woman awards. Artist fellow of DadaFest, Weston Jerwood Creative programme & Social Cohesion Fellow of Humboldt Foundation Residency. Poet in residence University College of London & Norfolk Ponds Project working on the secret Life of Ponds and of Museum of Colour, These Things Matter Exhibition. Artist fellow of Metal Culture producing a new upcoming creative campaign, HijabSpeaks. Lead writer & facilitator for the National Literacy Trust: Social Action Writing Project & Family Art Club for St Helens Culture Borough of Culture

Featured on Poetry Please, BBC 4 Radio, Arab News, Cordite Poetry Review, Queensland Poetry Festival: Use Words First (Wrecking Ball Press), BBC Bitesize: A Letter to My Mother, John Moores Painting Prize 2020 (The Double Negative), A Lovely Poetry Festival, The Independent, Just Beyond Reach (Sutton Manor, Metal Southend), Not Quite Right for Us (Flipped Eye Publisher, Speaking Volumes), TEDx Liverpool: My Home-Heart Land. The Portico Library: Rewriting the North. Campaigning Against the Arms Trade: A Portrait of Resistance. British Muslim Tv: @the Warehouse, and many more

Current project is a new public-poetry work in collaboration with 20 Stories High; working closely with Muslim Young people across Merseyside. In 2020 she produced a short documentary, Unheard Voices- capturing the stories of Yemeni shopkeepers; this was later successful screened and translated in Arabic at Belgees TV. 2021 she produced a Yemeni Artist Exchange Day in Egypt, Cairo funded by DadaFest: exploring the themes of diaspora & war-torn Yemen. 

Publications found at Speaking Volumes: Not Quite Right For Us. Queensland Poetry Festival: Cordite Poetry Review. Wrecking Ball, Wrecking Ball Press: Use Words First. Sutton Manor: Just Beyond Reach. The Double Negative: John Moores Painting Prize 2020. The Independent: The Death of the Face Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis. Whispering Dialogue: Passing through Two States

Features: Arab News: Artist profile BBC Bitesize: A Letter to My Mother. TEDx Liverpool: My Home-Heart Land. The Portico Library: Rewriting the North. Campaigning Against the Arms Trade: A Portrait of Resistance. British Muslim Tv: @the Warehouse.

Residences: Artist-exchange: (2016-17) Roots & Routes Germany & Holland (2018) Erasmus Theatre-markers for Social Change Hungary (2021) Queensland Poetry Festival, Australia. (2021-2022) Writer-in-residence Imperial War Museum, One story, Many Voices Installation Tour. (2019) Almanac: Rise Festival Liverpool. Artist (2022) A Lovely Word Poetry Festival, Liverpool (2018-2023) Dada International (2022) Jerwood Arts: Creative Explore -Spain (2022)