Knowing Is Beautiful - Poem by Mara Ahmed by Reclaiming the Narrative

Written and read by Mara Ahmed
Sound design by Darien Lamen

This piece was written in 2018 for a reading at Rochester Spoken Word, Rochester NY.

Mara Ahmed is an activist, artist and filmmaker who has lived and been educated in Belgium, Pakistan and the United States. Her first documentary, “The Muslims I Know” premiered 11 years ago and started a dialogue between American Muslims and people of other faiths. Her third documentary, “A Thin Wall,” a film about the partition of India in 1947, was released in 2015. She is now working on a film about racism in America, focusing on the voices of women of color exclusively. Her work can be found at www.NeelumFilms.com.