American Muslim Project
68 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsAmerican Muslim Project is a weekly podcast featuring Muslims shaping America. For nearly 500 years, Muslims have had a presence in North America and have made lasting contributions to American life, culture, and history. In each episode, our podcast elevates unique Muslim voices and explores how they are currently influencing the American experience.
American Muslim Project is produced by Rifelion Media.
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Episodes
Changing the Dialogue around Women and Business with Tasneem Dohadwala
April 21, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutesAs a first-generation American Muslim businesswoman, Tasneem Dohadwala has lived a life of being a threefold minority: in race, gender, and career. She experienced a traditional South Asian Muslim upbringing, short one pivotal detail—her mom worked, and loved it. Tasneem speaks to being a woman in the world of investments on this episode of AMP. Currently Founding Partner at global investment firm Excelestar Ventures and a Managing Director at early-stage investment firm Golden Seeds, which f...
Restoring Justice with Adnan Khan (Part 2)
April 14, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutesPart 2 of our conversation with Adnan Khan, Executive Director of Re:Store Justice. Early on, most of us are taught the binary concepts of good & evil and told what camp we fall into. As a teen, Adnan Khan found himself parentless, homeless, a dropout, and a victim of trauma, veering off the path of his little league days. After a robbery gone very wrong, where his schizophrenic acquaintance unexpectedly killed a man, he was sentenced to 25 years to life in maximum security prison. Under CA’...
Restoring Justice with Adnan Khan (Part 1)
April 07, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutesPart 1 of our conversation with Adnan Khan, Executive Director of Re:Store Justice. Early on, most of us are taught the binary concepts of good & evil and told what camp we fall into. As a teen, Adnan Khan found himself parentless, homeless, a dropout, and a victim of trauma, veering off the path of his little league days. After a robbery gone very wrong, where his schizophrenic acquaintance unexpectedly killed a man, he was sentenced to 25 years to life in maximum security prison. Under CA’...
The Humanizing Initiative with Dr. Shaista Khilji
March 31, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesThe survey says: Public satisfaction with both corporate and political leaders around the world is at an all-time low. On this episode of AMP we interview an academic attempting to change this leadership deficit, Dr. Shaista Khilji. GW professor, prolific writer, and cofounder of the Humanizing Initiative, Pakistani-born Shaista has become an expert on emerging economies through her international work. As a polylingual, multidegreed consultant, researcher, and teacher across nations—but espec...
The Islamic Scholarship Fund with Omar Elsayed
March 24, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesThe Berkeley-based Islamic Scholarship Fund seeks to increase American Muslim representation in media, policy, and film. Since 2009, they’ve awarded $1.5 million in the form of undergraduate/postgraduate/law scholarships as well as film grants, Congressional internships, and fellowships. We sat down with their program manager, Omar Elsayed, to discuss the organization, representation, and how to sleep better at night. Focusing on sectors likely to impact public opinion the most, ISF’s mission...
The Islamic Scholarship Fund and How to Sleep Better at Night with Omar Elsayed
March 24, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBThe Berkeley-based Islamic Scholarship Fund seeks to increase American Muslim representation in media, policy, and film. Since 2009, they’ve awarded $1.5 million in the form of undergraduate/postgraduate/law scholarships as well as film grants, Congressional internships, and fellowships. We sat down with their program manager, Omar Elsayed, to discuss the organization, representation, and how to sleep better at night. Focusing on sectors likely to impact public opinion the most, ISF’s missi...
The Matter of Words and Identity with Sahra Ali
March 17, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutesEnglish at school, Somali at home, Arabic on weekends. This is how Sahra Ali came of age. A storyteller by nature and writer by trade, her recent piece about forging a Somali American identity in the Midwest truly spoke to us. She joins us on this episode of AMP to speak about words, 9/11, and her personal evolution. Born in a tiny village in northeast Somalia devoid of electricity and brimming with war, Sahra’s family eventually followed her father to the U.S., where he’d moved eight years e...
Fighting Islamophobia with Imraan Siddiqi
March 10, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutesImraan Siddiqi, born in Alabama and raised in Atlanta, has always been a proud Muslim. Growing up in a city that was both a major civil rights player and part of the Bible Belt—with most households engrossed in religion—he felt at home sharing his Islamic faith and accepted for declining alcohol and dating. Now the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Washington State, he spends his days working to protect cultural and religious freedoms. He joins us on AM...
Disrupting the Beverage Industry with Zeyad Moussa
March 03, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutesZeyad Moussa, Founder and CEO of Tulua, would absolutely encourage anyone with an innovative idea and a lot of drive to disrupt the “stale and crusty” food & beverage industry. Just maybe not the way he did. In this episode of AMP, we learn about an unconventional but wildly successful path to starting a business. An erstwhile biomedical engineer, longtime wellness advocate, and lifelong drinker of ginger tea (for its impeccable record of outperforming Pepto Bismol!), Zeyad saw a place for re...
Finding Those Teaching Moments with Afroz Khan
February 24, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutesAfroz Khan, an Indian American engineer and the first Muslim woman to serve on the Newburyport (MA) city council, is, frankly, the kind of politician we all dream about electing. Principled, affable, and sincere, Afroz took on public office simply because she was asked to consider it. She’d started to get more involved in her quaint, cobblestone, and very white New England town by way of the schools, after her family began facing cultural biases. Initially these were fairly benign acts like b...
Resilient Leadership with Jawad Ahsan
February 17, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutesJawad Ahsan, CFO of Axon, the significant technology & weapons company, has found incredible success despite not following the expected path toward it. This week on AMP we discuss his new leadership book and his thoughts on team building, tasers, and tackling diversity. As a first-generation Pakistani-American raised outside Boston, Jawad entered college with the intention of pursuing medicine, right up until his C in chemistry. From thereon in he decided to forge his own path, leading to a s...
Authoring and Othering with Rabiah York Lumbard
February 10, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutesOn this episode of AMP we are joined by Rabiah York Lumbard, award-winning author of a number of children’s books and a recent young adult novel, No True Believers. This thriller about an American Muslim teen forced to confront hatred, secret conspiracies, and Islamophobia during her senior year of high school draws on Rabiah’s own experiences as an American Muslim at home and abroad. Though she grew up in a non-practicing Protestant family, Rabiah outlines how a family trip to Istanbul left ...
Democracy in America's First Muslim-Majority City with Razi Jafri
February 03, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutesPremiering at SXSW in 2020 and currently screening virtually across the country, Hamtramck, USA is a documentary film highlighting one city’s municipal election and how the various ethnic communities within work together. The story that the election naturally paints, however, is the deep diversity here, a place where the soccer stadium is rented out for mass prayers, the high school flies dozens of flags representing students’ ethnicities, and the call to prayer is amplified by public ordi...
The Politics Behind Local Politicking with Mehreen Butt
January 27, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutesGone are the days where local politics amount to reelecting erstwhile high school classmates to fill potholes and grow schools. Policy attorney by day and public servant by night, Mehreen Butt, sister to our host, is a Pakistani American town councilor in Wakefield, MA. She joins us to speak about her unique experience as the first American Muslim woman elected to a select board in the state. Believing steadfastly that government is good and public service is a way to give back, she decided t...
Muslim Women are Everything with Dr. Seema Yasmin
January 20, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutesDisease sleuthing. Ebola poetry. Doctoring. Naps. On this eclectic third episode of AMP we are joined by our first British Muslim living in America, Dr. Seema Yasmin. Author of the recent book (with illustrations by Famida Azim) Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure, she likewise seems to do just about everything. As the daughter of immigrants that bounced between a very insular, traditional paternal family in the English Midlands a...
Punk Rock, Mental Health, and RomComs with Shahjehan Khan
January 13, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutesBoston-based Pakistani-American actor, musician, behavioral health consultant, and self-identified miscreant Shahjehan Khan joins us to discuss his recent work voicing the dashing Italian American tour guide Matteo on RomComPods. Debuting as Apple’s #1 fiction podcast, we hear how this project expanded his definition of art, where COVID-era performers are recording these days, and how Shahjehan took his own journey through Pakistan in order to find himself. (Have you noticed how Americans are...
The Facts Behind the American Muslim Community with Besheer Mohamed
January 06, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutesBesheer Mohamed, a software developer turned Senior Researcher at the preeminent Pew Research Center, joins us for this inaugural episode of American Muslim Project. As an expert on religious beliefs and practices in the United States with a special focus on religious minorities, he says American Muslims make up just over 1% of the U.S. population. Despite nearly half being born Stateside—many whose families have been here for generations—little to no good quantitative research on the Muslim ...
Introducing American Muslim Project - Official Trailer
January 03, 2021 21:00 - 55 secondsWeekly podcast featuring Muslims who are shaping America. Hosted by Asad Butt. A production of Rifelion, LLC. www.americanmuslimproject.com YyjxNWy8NSb0zyYv2fQq Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices