Pakistani-Australian spoken word artist and her passion for humanity

Zainab Zahra Syed is a Pakistani-Australian spoken word artist. She has performed in different countries and is passionate about serving humanity.

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Zainab Zahra Syed is a spoken word artist, who has conducted workshops in the UK, US, Europe, Australia and the South Asian region. She has facilitated workshops at the women's prison in Rhode Island; for trauma victims in Pakistan; and currently works with migrants and refugees in Australia.

In 2016, she co- founded WORD Ink, launching Pakistan's first poetry slam with an aim to create safe spaces for the youth to respond to the insecurity around them in a non-violent manner. She also co-founded illUMEnate: U+Me For Humanity, a platform for for CALD community in Australia to celebrate its diversity by using a creative platform. In 2015 she was a finalist in the National Australian Poetry Slam and won the Brown University Slam in 2012. She is also a teaching artist at the Red Room Company and Said Poets Society.

She is also associated with the Australian Red Cross, the Humanitarian Settlement Services at the Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre in Perth, WA.