My Work
Montreal Fringe Festival Show
From June 11th – June 21st 2026.
Are You Listening? A one-woman show. 60 minutes.
Written & Performed by Zaynab Mohammed
Dramaturg: Shayna Jones
Nominated for 2-awards:
Best Storytelling & Best English Script.
Runner up (Honorable mention) for best English Script at Montreal Fringe Festival 2026
Reviews written by:
Forget the Box & Out of Body Experience. Article being written for Sydney Dramaturgy.
Funded by CCA, CKCA, CBT
Adapted into a book with:
Wholesome Dynamic Conversations with Brilliant Minds & Poetic Hearts
Now Streaming on all platforms
Including YouTube
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Short Film Series
Rural Stories from the SWANA Diaspora by Zaynab Mohammed
In collaboraration with nikta boroumand
Funded by SFU Radius
The Arabic Theatre Company
Arabic Improv Comedy Sketches
Founded and led by Islam Baalba
Montreal, QC, 2026
artist residency with Smokii Sumac
At the Aunte Indigenous Residency – 2025
Smokii and I got to unplug from our regular daily responsibilities for 3-weeks to focus solely on creating artwork.
available in Canada & USA
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.
fine-art printmaking mentorship with Marcus Denomme
Funded by Canada Council for the Arts – Career Development
Marcus Denomme introduced me to the world of visual art and hand made printmaking. I learned silk screen printing, relief printing and book binding.
debut october 6th 2023 – on tour
A one-woman show. A journey of sound, sight and story. How one woman loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity, whilst navigating a terrain foreign to her ancestors. Being displaced, moved from land, uprooted, is intergenerational. How does a young woman who’s been colonised for centuries free herself?
our grandmothers garden
ka titinaǂa a·k̓mukuʔis
حديقة جدتنا
Created & Painted with Smokii Sumac 2024
Designed by nikta boroumand
Funded by Nelson & District Arts Council
Located at 900 block Edgewood Ave Nelson BC
mandala mural 2024
Created and Painted in my moms shop on the floor to mimic a rug with oil paint in the mountains of Lebanon.
Palestine poems
Short series of poems about the ongoing genocide happening in Gaza since October 2023 and since the occupation in 1948.
olive tree womxn mural
New Echoes in the Staircase is a mural residency at the Nelson Museum Archives & Gallery. This was my first mural painted in 2023.
Go to FILMS to watch documentary about this project.
passport of witness
“Eloquence, my grandmother taught me eloquence. Where do I find strength to be eloquent” – Passport of Witness, anthology of Palestinians in the diaspora 2024
a curtain of ancestors
50,200 strips of fabric cut and tied to string, hung from beams of wood. Each ribbon represents a martyr in Palestine and Lebanon since October 2023.
May these human lives be remembered, be honored and be present as benevolent ancestors for those they left behind.
It is with a heavy and grieving heart this project came together with the help of many people in my community.
Remember the Dead event, Nelson 2024
A liberation of Artists, Vancouver 2025
“Eloquence, my grandmother taught me eloquence. Where do I find strength to be eloquent”
– Passport of Witness, anthology of Palestinians in the diaspora 2024