Only nineteen years-old, Ainee Fatima is a passionate poet on the Chicago spoken word scene. This young American-Muslim was a 2008 finalist and win...
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Only nineteen years-old, Ainee Fatima is a passionate poet on the Chicago spoken word scene. This young American-Muslim was a 2008 finalist and winner of Young Chicago Author's Louder Than a Bomb (LTAB), the largest Teen Poetry Slam competition in Chicago.That year she was awarded a Girlspeak award and attended Brave New Voices with her team, Tribe Called West.
In 2009, she was the duo slam champion at LTAB along side with her teammate Noor Hasan. With the help of award winning poets such as Kevin Coval, Robbie Q, Roger Bonair-Agard and her coach, Paul S. Bellwoar, she continues to develop herself as a poet.
Most of her writing deals with the struggle of growing up in America as a young Muslim teenager and speaks eloquently with the issues her fellow brothers and sisters in faith face today.
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