Are You Listening‪?‬

“With compelling images of life in a war-torn country, Mohammed’s powerful words explore the fragility of our world and the resiliency of humanity, filled with beautiful and heartbreaking prose and poetry that engages the reader with all senses.” Sonia Saikaley, author of The Allspice Bath


Are You Listening? is a journey of sound, sight and story. Blending poetry and memoir, the book explores intergenerational displacement, and speaks the truths of a woman who loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity. 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. Are You Listening? is a carefully woven tapestry of transforming pain into beauty, into magic, and into possibility.