Submitter
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsA podcast created and produced by Imran Ali Malik.
"The combination of intentional and aspirational representation, the lived experiences of Malik and his guests, and dynamic storytelling that switches between first and third-person narration create a show that unfolds in real time. Imran Ali Malik has created a wildly diverse yet cohesive show that invites the listener — no matter who they are and what their background is — to participate in the experiment of life alongside him." - L.A. Review of Books
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Episodes
The Many Questions of Ramy Youssef
July 04, 2020 08:20 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBReligion says, “you’ve got questions, and I’ve got answers. Art says, “you’ve got answers, and I’ve got questions.” At the intersection of those two statements, we get the show Ramy from the comedian Ramy Youssef. His work brings to life a new landscape in American comedy: being your spiritual self in public. To be one’s spiritual self in public is to grapple with all questions that exist in the space between who you are and who you want to be, and what happens when your journey to answer ...
Fatima Bhutto — Pain, Power, and Politics: Making Sense of a Senseless Inheritance
June 29, 2020 16:50 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBRead the interview on Submitter Magazine Fatima Bhutto - Pain, Power, and Politics: Making Sense of a Senseless Inheritance In this conversation, Fatima Bhutto reckons with ghosts of her past. Many of us know Fatima as the author of novels The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, and The Runaways, as well as her latest nonfiction work New Kings of the World. But over the course of an hour, we get a glimpse into the heavy history she has inherited as a member of the Bhutto family and political dyna...
The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting
June 07, 2020 21:04 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MB"THE STRUGGLE OF MAN AGAINST POWER IS THE STRUGGLE OF MEMORY AGAINST FORGETTING." The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1979 Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian, born 1929. Islam and the Black American: a free course by Dr. Sherman Jackson Islam and the Black American: Book by Dr. Sherman Jackson Stamped From the Beginning by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi Brother Ali on Instagram/Facebook Muslim Anti-Racist Collective Islamic Perspectives on Police Abolition with Ustd. Ubaydallah Evans and Shaykh...
Travel Is Mutual Unveiling: A Conversation with Sacred Footsteps
April 16, 2020 20:10 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBWhat We Talk About In This Episode How this period of quarantine has affected our content/the way we work. Travel as a mutual ‘unveiling’ (in the Arabic language) and what this means. Guinea Bissau: conversion of tribes to Islam after an elder, Maulana, dreamt of the Prophet (saw)- and how Imran’s experience visiting the country was transformative for him. How vulnerability whilst travelling can lead one to have a greater sense of tawwakul, reliance upon God. Finding meaning in times of...
The Present: Catch Your Breath
April 01, 2020 22:34 - 5 minutes - 4.95 MBTHE PRESENT is a series of reflections, stories, and moments captured during the global pandemic of the novel Coronavirus. Haider Syed is a hip hop artist and poet from Toronto, Canada that goes by the name of Dialectic. Follow him on twitter and instagram. The song featured in this episode is called "Pillars of Wisdom" and can be found here. To submit a story for our series 'The Present,' send us an email or send a voice note to our WhatsApp account.
The Discipline of Tripping Up: Bassam Tariq
March 28, 2020 04:05 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBThis week we breech the divides of social distancing and isolation by reaching out to Bassam Tariq, a Pakistani-American filmmaker whose latest project Mogul Mowgli, starring Riz Ahmed, recently premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival. In this conversation, Bassam and Imran examine how traces of religion, tradition, and history bleed together and form a voice for the South Asian diaspora. Though Bassam shares with us the difficulties of being a filmmaker with integrity, he also reminds us o...
This Wasn't The Plan
March 21, 2020 05:01 - 8 minutes - 7.54 MBWe open the second season of American Submitter behind the closed doors of our studio in the Bay Area, which has now been ordered to 'shelter in place'. The past few weeks our feeds have been flooded with endless diagrams, figures, and unknowns. We begin this season about community by checking in with you all. In this short episode, we take a moment to acknowledge the isolation and distress felt by many of us. While we hope to release the first story of this season in a few days, Go...
Season 2: The Muslim Community
March 06, 2020 21:12 - 3 minutes - 2.88 MBSeason 2 of American Submitter is coming March 20th. Stories of community past, present, and future in Muslim America.
Malcolm In The Spring
March 02, 2020 00:16 - 6 minutes - 5.85 MBFor American Muslims, Malcolm X is a saint and martyr and February is the month where I and other muslims often find ourselves reflecting on Malcolm’s last days. As we prepare to launch Season 2, we try to bring the spirit of Malcolm with us. Featuring Tyson Amir Music from Tyson Amir, Blue Dot Sessions, and Imran Ali Malik Produced by Imran Ali Malik and Zahra Parekh
Mustafa Briggs: These Are Just Tools To Reach God
October 04, 2019 07:36 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBIt’s easy to get lost in the names, numbers, and contexts that inform who we are. In this podcast, we hear how Mustafa Briggs conceives identity as something that both illuminates and conceals. Piecing together aspects of identity and experience, Mustafa and other like-minded U.K. based Muslim millenials are creating a niche cultural conversation using Instagram and YouTube as tools to connect. We hear about ‘Beyond Bilal,’ a talk that Briggs designed to foreground black history in Islam, an...
Creatively Righteous, Haroon Sellars
July 27, 2019 06:04 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBFree-styling prayer, intentionality in craft, and creativity in devotion to God—these are a few pearls you'll find in this conversation with my mentor and dear friend, Brother Haroon Sellars. Though not a native to the Bay area, you could say his journey to the Bay has changed the course of both institutions and every heart he has encountered. On this blessed Friday, I hope you are rejuvenated by the intensity of Brother Haroon’s radiant spirit and that you too take the time to find your Go...
Azhar Usman: We're Not Serious
July 20, 2019 22:36 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBThis is a conversation with my friend Azhar Usman, a man I call the most serious man in comedy. Azhar asked me to watch Ramy Youssef’s show ‘Ramy’ on Hulu, and when I begrudgingly did, I was floored. This happened again with Aziz Ansari’s comedy special ‘Aziz Ansari Right Now’ on Netflix. As we began to unpack the significance of these two shows, we found ourselves wrestling with modern dichotomies: Good Muslim/Bad Muslim; Artists/Awliya’; God’s Estate/Our States. In this hour and a half, I...
Time To Widen And Deepen Your Circles
June 29, 2019 22:53 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MB“You plan And God laughs.” That’s something I heard yesterday from a young lady who allowed my Studio team to use a room at her POC owned co-working space in Oakland. I was explaining to her that I was supposed to have an episode out by now, but that the pitch we just gave at that meeting went incredibly well, and the work load is about to sky rocket. Good news is that we are getting closer to the dream of our own office space, hiring audio and video editors, and making the dream of our stud...
Hidden Treasures (They Want To Be Known)
June 22, 2019 07:16 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week’s episode is a look at the hidden treasure of children, and trying to see the world from their eyes. Unless we are parents ourselves, we rarely hear the voices of children, let alone spend the day with them. This is a look inside the challenge of being a working mother and the beauty that can emerge when people from the community respond with their hearts and limbs. Produced by Imran Ali Malik Featuring Kari Rott, Asma Saud, Safiya, and Umar. This week’s episode is a look at th...
Adam (There Is No Such Thing As A Divine Accident)
June 14, 2019 20:18 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBThis week we meet Adam, and we learn what it means to be a spiritual brother to someone, and listen to the journey of two friends on the path. Later they meet up with a teacher of theirs, Shaykh Adeyinke Mendes, before Imran has to rush to the airport to fly back to California. Written and produced by Imran Ali Malik Special thanks to Mikhail Latif for some of the music in this episode, and to Adam Lotfi and Muhammad Adeyinke Mendes for their generous time.
Learning From Experience: Ubaydullah Evans
June 07, 2019 13:17 - 40 minutes - 36.1 MBAMERICAN SUBMITTER returns after a three year hiatus with a conversation with Ubaydallah Evans, an old friend and recent commencement speaker. We talk about the things that have animated our friendship from the beginning, discussing what beauty is for, how wisdom encompasses all things, and what it’s been like for both of us as seekers of knowledge. To hear the unedited conversation head over to http://patreon.com/submitter to become a patron and get access to our interviews well before the...
The Key to Knowledge
January 17, 2016 12:56 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBThe first episode of American Submitter, released January 2016. The Wikipedia entry of Menlo Park, California literally begins with the words “Menlo Park is an affluent suburb”. Apparently 21% of Menlo Park residents work at Facebook. In any case, it’s still in many ways a typical nice and quiet suburb of America. I know this because I’ve been there. I went there to visit my friend Scott. Scott grew up in Menlo Park and he and I currently study at an Islamic liberal arts college in Berkele...