Latest American islam Podcast Episodes
The Many Questions of Ramy Youssef
Submitter - July 04, 2020 08:20 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsReligion 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...
Fatima Bhutto — Pain, Power, and Politics: Making Sense of a Senseless Inheritance
Submitter - June 29, 2020 16:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsRead 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 ...
The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting
Submitter - June 07, 2020 21:04 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratings"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 Jack...
Travel Is Mutual Unveiling: A Conversation with Sacred Footsteps
Submitter - April 16, 2020 20:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWhat 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 Im...
The Present: Catch Your Breath
Submitter - April 01, 2020 22:34 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsTHE 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...
The Discipline of Tripping Up: Bassam Tariq
Submitter - March 28, 2020 04:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis 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 o...
This Wasn't The Plan
Submitter - March 21, 2020 05:01 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWe 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 c...
Season 2: The Muslim Community
Submitter - March 06, 2020 21:12 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsSeason 2 of American Submitter is coming March 20th. Stories of community past, present, and future in Muslim America.
Malcolm In The Spring
Submitter - March 02, 2020 00:16 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsFor 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 Do...
Mustafa Briggs: These Are Just Tools To Reach God
Submitter - October 04, 2019 07:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt’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 m...
Creatively Righteous, Haroon Sellars
Submitter - July 27, 2019 06:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsFree-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 bot...
Azhar Usman: We're Not Serious
Submitter - July 20, 2019 22:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis 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 ...
Time To Widen And Deepen Your Circles
Submitter - June 29, 2019 22:53 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratings“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 i...
Hidden Treasures (They Want To Be Known)
Submitter - June 22, 2019 07:16 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis 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 ...
Adam (There Is No Such Thing As A Divine Accident)
Submitter - June 14, 2019 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis 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 prod...
Learning From Experience: Ubaydullah Evans
Submitter - June 07, 2019 13:17 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsAMERICAN 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...
The Key to Knowledge
Submitter - January 17, 2016 12:56 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe 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 quie...
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