About me

Tasneim Zyada is a British Palestinian writer and published poet. Her spoken word performances have featured in the Shubbak Festival (2021), the Lyric Hammersmith Evolution Festival (2020), Waltham Forest Mela (2019), the Migration and Diaspora Literature Festival (2019) and the AWAN festival (2018 & 2020). Topics of interest in Tasneim's work include identity, displacement, mental health and faith. A graduate of English Literature and Creative Writing, she is currently pursuing a career as a creative freelancer. Tasneim accomplishments and collaborations cover a broad range: from voiceover work for the multi-award winning podcast: Have you Heard George’s Podcast? (2019), to featuring alongside the ASRA run club in Nike's #UntilWeAllWin global campaign (2020) and to regularly facilitating workshops in mindfulness and poetry.

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Projects credited in

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  ASRA Running ClubA running club based in East London aimed to create a safe space for Muslim women and women from different backgrounds to unlock their inner athele.

Work history

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Management team/Mindfulness CoachASRA club
Mar 2019London, United KingdomFull Time
Taking meeting minutes on the layout of the sessions, scouting locations, communicating with our in-house designer for our social media marketing strategy and coordinating the mental health aspect of each session.

Skills

• Money Handling
• Academic Research
• Action Oriented
• Creative Leadership
• Critical Thinking
• Spoken Word
• Screenwriting
• Writing
• Poetry
• Adaptive Communication

Education

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English Literature and Creative WritingUniversity of Roehampton
Sep 2014 - Sep 2020London, United Kingdom
Graduated with a 2:1