Latest Islamophobia Podcast Episodes
Drawing the Blueprint For Muslim Inclusion with Kashif Shaikh
American Muslim Project - July 07, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThis week we speak with Kashif Shaikh, co-founder and president of Pillars Fund, a nonprofit investing in American Muslim organizations, leaders, and artists to advance equity and inclusion. Pillars, founded in 2010, aims to take tangible actions to benefit American Muslim initiatives. But rather...
It's Kinda A Big Deal
Feel in the Room - July 06, 2021 07:16 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings2020 hit us hard and took us away from you, the listener. We are back, but also scratching our heads. Why do we minimize the tough moments? So much has happened in a year. Yannina, Taqwa, and Norah reflect on not only what has transpired, but our tendencies around coping through tough or traumati...
Recommendations
American Muslim Project - June 30, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThis week’s special episode includes recommendations (and previously unreleased audio) from six past guests about who and what you should be following, listening to, watching, and reading. From episode 13’s Dr. Shaista Khilji, Pakistani-born George Washington University professor, prolific writer...
Solidarity: Beyond Pride Month
Solidarity Is This - June 28, 2021 21:37 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsIn this Pride month episode of Solidarity Is This, guest host Anna Castro talks about the End Trans Detention campaign with Jorge Gutierrez, executive director of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement.
Demystifying Sharia with Sumbul Ali-Karamali
American Muslim Project - June 23, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThis week we are joined by author, former lawyer, and expert on Islamic law, Sumbul Ali-Karamali, to discuss the decidedly unscary Sharia law. Sharia is essentially a mass of religious guidelines, meaning the path to the watering place literally and the path to righteousness religiously. Essentia...
Building a World without Hate with Rais Bhuiyan
American Muslim Project - June 16, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsRais Bhuiyan is a Bangladeshi American who was shot by a white supremacist as retaliation for the attacks of September 11th, four months after arriving in the United States. He joins us on this episode of American Muslim Project to share his remarkable story and mission to promote empathy and com...
Fighting State-Sponsored Spying and Discrimination with Amira Al-Subaey
American Muslim Project - June 09, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsDuring the Obama administration (or was it in 1984?), a campaign known as countering violent extremism (CVE, and a profusion of other acronyms since) was initiated by intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies to identify and dissuade those prone to radicalization. The Muslim Justice Leagu...
A Focus on Palestinians with Dr. Maha Nassar
American Muslim Project - June 02, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsDr. Maha Nassar, a Palestinian American professor and expert on Arab cultural and intellectual history, shares her insights on Palestinians. Naturally, we ask her to address the horrific situation in Israel and the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks. She enlightens us on several key points, inclu...
Improving Your COVID IQ with Dr. Mohammed Reza
American Muslim Project - May 26, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThis week we spoke with Dr. Mohammed Reza, a Bangladeshi-American infectious disease doctor in north Florida, where COVID variants and vaccine reluctance both run rampant. During this pandemic, Dr. Mo (as his patients call him) has been thrust into the local limelight as an unwitting community ed...
Solidarity: Centering and Uplifting Asian American Communities
Solidarity Is This - May 21, 2021 17:14 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsBo Thao-Urabe (Coalition of Asian American Leaders) joins Deepa Iyer to discuss how Asian American communities are experiencing racism and building their solidarity muscle in Minnesota, one year after the murder of George Floyd.
Telling Our Own Story with Qasim Rashid
American Muslim Project - May 19, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsQasim Rashid has held many roles—human rights lawyer, prolific writer, media consultant, political candidate, volunteer prison chaplain, avid Tweeter—one of which his wife convinced him to pursue. He joins us on American Muslim Project to discuss his newest book, how he got to where he is today, ...
Food and Finding the Spice of Life with Saba Wahid Duffy
American Muslim Project - May 12, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThis week we are joined by Saba Wahid Duffy: chef, media personality, culinary educator, and very recent *Chopped* champion. As an American Muslim raised in a suburb of Boston, she grew up eating Pakistani food nearly exclusively, which left her hankering for any cuisine but. Despite her strong i...
Bringing People Together through Art with Salma Arastu
American Muslim Project - May 05, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThis week we speak with Salma Arastu, an artist born in Rajasthan, India, to Sindhi Hindu Pakistani refugees. Introduced to Arabic calligraphy in Iran, she found herself mesmerized before able to even read it. By the 1980s, the merging of traditional calligraphy and modern art that she’d embarked...
Shedding Stereotypes in Hollywood with Serena Rasoul
American Muslim Project - April 28, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsSerena Rasoul’s humble upbringing in rural Virginia left her feeling like a leper to both white neighbors and other Arab Americans from afar. Her childhood defense mechanism? Resorting to funny accents and impressions. Serena joins AMP to discuss her diverse career, founding the first casting age...
Solidarity: One Year Later
Solidarity Is This - April 21, 2021 16:27 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsAfter more than a year of living in a global pandemic, how do we make meaning out of what we have endured? In this episode of Solidarity Is This, host Deepa Iyer explores this question and more with Fatima Goss Graves (National Women’s Law Center) and Kevin Kahakula’akea John Fong (Elemental Part...
Changing the Dialogue around Women and Business with Tasneem Dohadwala
American Muslim Project - April 21, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsAs 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 i...
Restoring Justice with Adnan Khan (Part 2)
American Muslim Project - April 14, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsPart 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 pat...
Restoring Justice with Adnan Khan (Part 1)
American Muslim Project - April 07, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsPart 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 pat...
The Humanizing Initiative with Dr. Shaista Khilji
American Muslim Project - March 31, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThe 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 I...
The Islamic Scholarship Fund with Omar Elsayed
American Muslim Project - March 24, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThe 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 d...
The Islamic Scholarship Fund and How to Sleep Better at Night with Omar Elsayed
American Muslim Project - March 24, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThe 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 ...
The Matter of Words and Identity with Sahra Ali
American Muslim Project - March 17, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsEnglish 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 he...
Fighting Islamophobia with Imraan Siddiqi
American Muslim Project - March 10, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsImraan 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 ...
Disrupting the Beverage Industry with Zeyad Moussa
American Muslim Project - March 03, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsZeyad 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 st...
Finding Those Teaching Moments with Afroz Khan
American Muslim Project - February 24, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsAfroz 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 start...
Resilient Leadership with Jawad Ahsan
American Muslim Project - February 17, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsJawad 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 Paki...
Authoring and Othering with Rabiah York Lumbard
American Muslim Project - February 10, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsOn 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 ...
Democracy in America's First Muslim-Majority City with Razi Jafri
American Muslim Project - February 03, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsPremiering 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 diver...
The Politics Behind Local Politicking with Mehreen Butt
American Muslim Project - January 27, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsGone 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 abou...
Muslim Women are Everything with Dr. Seema Yasmin
American Muslim Project - January 20, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsDisease 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 Courag...