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How the Muslim diaspora shaped the West

November 18, 2021 Culture, Race/Identity, Think

Omar Mouallem discusses his travels to 13 mosques across the Americas trying to understand what it means to different people to be Muslim.

A Muslim Doctor In Trump Country

July 29, 2019 Current Events, Politics, Race/Identity

Dr. Ayaz Virji talks with guest host Courtney Collins about racism and rejection in the age of Trump.

Inside The Partition Of India And Pakistan

July 3, 2018 Literature

Veera Hiranandani joins us to discuss her novel “The Night Diary,” which is set during the Partition of India in the late 1940s.

Islamophobia Didn’t Begin With 9/11

April 25, 2018 Politics, Race/Identity

Khaled A. Beydoun joins us to talk about how anti-Muslim ideas have been ingrained in our legal system since the days of slavery.

The Power Of Pay: Working Women In The Muslim World

April 10, 2018 Global Issues, Race/Identity

Economist Saadia Zahidi joins us to talk about how Muslim working women are reshaping cultural norms.

Inside The Partition Of India And Pakistan

March 29, 2018 Global Issues, History, Literature, Politics

Veera Hiranandani joins us to discuss her novel “The Night Diary,” which is set during the Partition of India in the late 1940s.

The Power Of Pay: Working Women In The Muslim World

February 16, 2018 Culture, Race/Identity

Economist Saadia Zahidi joins us to talk about how Muslim working women are reshaping cultural norms.

A Saudi Woman Takes The Wheel

June 22, 2017 Race/Identity

Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca as a member of a fundamentalist family. She joins us to talk about being a feminist in a patriarchy.

Life As An American Muslim

March 24, 2017 Best of Think, Global Issues, Race/Identity

We’ll talk with a pair of American Muslims about having to regularly justify their right to even live in the U.S. – and about being associated with those who would harm others in the name of religion.

A Look At President Trump’s Travel Ban

January 30, 2017 Global Issues, Politics

President Trump’s executive order banning travel for refugees and others from seven predominantly Muslim countries led to protests at airports across the country. We talk about what happened over the weekend and what the order means going forward.

Laughing All The Way To The Mosque

June 2, 2016 Culture, Race/Identity

This hour we’ll talk with Pakistani-Canadian sitcom writer Zarqa Nawaz, who writes about life, Islam and the west in her book “Laughing All the Way to the Mosque: The Misadventures of a Muslim Woman.”

The Life Of A Muslim American

September 29, 2015 Culture, Race/Identity

This hour, we’ll talk to Moustafa Bayoumi about what it’s like to constantly feel like a suspect in a crime you didn’t commit, which he writes about in “This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror” (NYU Press).