Education
2021 | Bachelor of Arts with Honours, Human Rights and Equity Studies, York University
Selected Poetry
2021 | Seethrough
2020 | remind me I'm alive
2020 | the day my grandfather died
2020 | depleted: for roua
2020 | undefined
2020 | reminder to self
2020 | burning
2019 | Untitled
2018 | grenade
2018 | Make Ourselves Better
2017 | Forever an Immigrant
2017 | Exotical
2016 | Liminality
2016 | today is her birthday
2016 | grandma’s dentures
2015 | baba’s glasses
2015 | Girl’s Like Me
2015 | Breath of a Warrior
2014 | Stuck At The Border
2014 | Letter to Katy Perry & the Like- From a 16-Year-Old
2013 | Letter to Maman She will Never Read
2013 | Revolution of Butterflies
2013 | Still, a Long Way
2013 | Once Upon a Sunset
2013 | maman’s hands
2013 | For the Prophet
2012 | Dreaming the Dream
2012 | Wake Up
2012 | Maybe
2012 | Revolutionize the Soul Step by Step
2010 | A Minaret in Switzerland
Selected Performances
2021 | X Avant- You In Mind, The Music Gallery, RISE, 918 Bathurst
2021 | Unity Festival, Unity Charity, Gladstone Hotel/ Virtual Broadcasted on Amazon Music Canada
2021 | Art on My Mind, Art Gallery of York University, Virtual
2021 | The Good Time T.O, Bickford Park
2021 | Musicians and Poets for Palestine, Virtual
2020 | We Keep Each Other Safe, Toronto Prisoners Rights Project, Virtual
2020 | Take Back the Night, Red Dot Project, Seneca College
2020 | Stories of Truth 2.0, Racialized Young Professionals, Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay
2019 | Poetry Solidarity & Resilience, GSA Carleton, Carleton University, Ottawa
2019 | Don’t Pass It Down, Mosaic Institute, University of Toronto Mississauga
2019 | Speakout Poetry, Studio.89, Mississauga
2018 | FOLD 2018, Brampton
2018 | Racism Talk Series, Ryerson Faculty of Community Service, X University
2018 | 416 RISE, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto
2018 | Poetry Evening, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
2017 | Nuit Blanche, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
2017 | Collecting Personal Archives: A Community Arts Space Project, the Gardiner Museum,
2017 | Creative Time Summit Toronto: Of Homelands and Revolution, Koerner Hall, Toronto
2017 | Opening Performance for Lowkey, York University
2017 | Celebrating our Voices Panel, Ryerson University, Toronto
2017 | Protest Against Muslim Ban, Black Liives Matter TO/ Coalition Against White Supremacy and Islamophobia, Toronto
2017 | Urban Legends, Ottawa
2017 | Newcomer Students Association, X University
2016 | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2016 | Unity MC and Spoken Word Showcase, Super Wonder Gallery
2015 | Launch of the OHRC’s Policy on preventing discrimination based on creed, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Toronto
2015 | Volume: Sisters Make Noise, Daniels Spectrum
2014 | Spoken Word at Unity Festival
2014 | TedX Rouge River, Toronto Zoo
Group Exhibitions
2018 | Musinterpreted, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto (curated by Truth and Dare Project)
2017 | Collecting Personal Archives: A Community Arts Space Project, the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (curated by soJin Chun Zahra Agjee)
2017 | Featured performer in Madeleine Co’s Listen to the Chorus, a collaborative large scale 4 channel video installation, Nuit Blanche, Toronto (curated by Barbara Fischer)
Videos
2021 | All Right, (a collaborative music video with Terence Penny, Named Tobias, Zakisha Brown, Nathan Baya and Tracey Kayy ), Art Gallery of York University
2020 | Hope You Relate, (a collaborative music video with Terence Penny, Named Tobias, Zakisha Brown and Tracey Kayy), Art Gallery of York University.
2019 | CBC Arts Series, “Poetic License: 8 young poets speak their truth in anxious times”
2017 | CBC Arts Series, “Poetic License: Nasim Asgari ‘Forever an immigrant’: An Iranian-Canadian poet takes on turbulent times”
Films
2018 | RISE, an experimental documentary by artists Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto.
Publications
2021 | Kopia TV Website
2021 | Pulse Zine, Students of Colour Collective, University of Victoria
2019 | Exhibition Folio: Ai Weiwei Unbroken, Gardiner Museum
2018 | Nasim Asgari, what was swept under the Persian rug, self-published
2016 | Fatimeh Syed, “Speak Out: How an Inspiring New Generation of Spoken Word Poets Found Their Voices” This Magazine
2015 | Desmond Cole, “Taking Action against Bill C-51: A report from Toronto, one of fifty-six Canadian cities protest government’s proposed anti-terror law”, The Walrus
Interviews
2020 | The Morning Shift
2018 | Metro Morning, Interview with Matt Galloway
2015 | Radio 1010, Interview with Desmond Cole
Facilitated Workshops
2017-2020 | Toronto Public Library, Poetry Saved Our Lives
2019- 2020 | All-Star Poetry Series
2018 | Art Gallery of York University, Truth Be Told
2014 | Wali Ul Asr School2013 | Unity Charity
Awards & Grants
2021 | Ontario Arts Council - BIPOC Artist Development Grant
2021 | Art Galleries of Ontario Nomination - Community Programming, Art On My Mind, Hope You Can Relate
2016 | RISE Edutainment Community Award
2014 | on team that won second place in the York Region District School Board’s Poetry Slam
2014 | Unity Charity MVP Award
2013 | on team that won first place in the York region District School Board’s Poetry Slam