Narratives from Foster Frontlines
Shownotes:
Aisha Mshood joins us today as a mom who fostered to adopt and continues to foster children in America in hopes of building the family of her dreams. Her commitment to her children is awe-inspiring, as is her COMPLETE reliance on and in Allah SWT during a process that is not easy. From catfishing to fostering, to all the blocks falling into place just when they needed to be to be called “mom,” Aisha is a resource for anyone who has considered all the reasons not to foster or adopt…..we only need one reason to do something good, y’all.
Please remember to pray for ease for Aisha and her family so that all the kids in her care get the best possible in this world and the next. Ameen.
Links:
Omicron updates: https://www.newsweek.com/lack-booster-uptake-risk-us-surpasses-100000-cases-omicron-1656789
Muslim Foster Care Association: https://muslimfostercare.org/
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Muslim Adoption & FC Common Q's
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Cultivating Families out of Texas has this core belief: when all faith communities care for foster and adopted children, NO CHILD WILL BE LEFT TO NAVIGATE LIFE ALONE. This really resonated with us and Executive Director and Rev. Amy Becezny and Board member Sarah Haider Alam of CF are on today to share their journeys of adoption, but more importantly, a lot of the challenges that come with building a family through adoption. These challenges can break a mom in the making before she even lifts off, unless she has faith, and to that end, CF brings together families of faith to fulfill their dreams of closeness to God as well as to serve His creation as he commands. The spiritual development of our children is as important as their physical and emotional safety, and this is why we mom every day.
Listen to some of the domestic and international requirements for adoptio, common questions that come up specifically for Muslim considering either path, and get inspired.
Links:
Find out how Project Nimbus in Israel is a violation of human rights and civil liberties: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-google-and-amazon-workers-demand-to-cut-ties-with-israel-s-project-nimbus-1.10290462
Sign the petition so we don’t have to boycott Amazon and Google! No Tech for Apartheid: https://www.notechforapartheid.com/
Cultivating Families: https://www.cultivatingfamilies.org/
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Refugee Fostering
Shownotes:
https://medium.com/@megkissack/get-to-know-me-43-quick-fire-questions-d73c36a9a3e0
Links:
Muslim Foster Care Association: https://muslimfostercare.org/
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Adoption: What’s Holding Us Back
Shownotes:
Dr. Alia Irshad, pediatrician and adoptive mom, joins us today to talk about some of the hindrances to domestic adoption for Muslim parents, and the process of going international as she did. The process is demystified for us today, and her personal experience is the happy ending we want for every child of every faith and background. Let’s address some of the problematic beliefs the Muslim community has about adoption, and reveal the religious stipulations of adoption for our non Muslim audiences.
Dr. Irshad is a wealth of knowledge and expertise on her experience as well as on the rights of orphans in Islam, the mandate by Allah SWT Himself and the sunnah we are SO SLOW to fulfill, but ask about 4 wives and everyone wants to fulfill that sunnah! Check out the resources she’s collected for us and you won’t be sorry.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts OR visit our website. Link in bio.
Links:
Contact Superintendent Pantoliano to say ‘thank you’: Lpantoliano@ridgefieldschools.com
Sample text available
Or call at 201-945-7747 to leave a message.
Adoption Agencies providing services for Moroccan adoptions
Religious recommendations at
Yaqeen Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0BidbbUScc
Wise Muslim Women: https://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/WISE-UP-Adoption.pdf
Muslim Adoption Network: https://www.muslimadoptionnetwork.org/
Muslim Foster Care Assocation: https://muslimfostercare.org/
Want to help but can’t foster or adopt:
Bloom Charity: https://bloomcharity.org/
Islamic Relief Sponsor an Orphan: https://irusa.org/orphans-and-children/
Adoption reading: https://adoptuskids.org/?r=u
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Si se puede habeebti
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Hazel Gomez of Muslim Power Building Project joins us today to talk about Latinos at the forefront of social justice in America. As leaders in the movement for change, Latina Muslims especially are culturally endowed with assets and experiences that lend them towards success. She’s a great reminder of history and how Muslims have always been a part of social and political change in America, such that no movement is for any one people; we are all touched by the othering of any community. Her anecdotes are sure to tear your hearts out and make you want to fight the good fight.
Find out how to get active and effective, the necessity of allyship for and by Muslims from all backgrounds, as well as current projects Hazel is organizing both locally and nationally, WITH a bun in the oven masha’Allah. The work doesn’t stop, y’all. We aren’t a complacent people per our faith tradition, and the time to get educated and involved is always. Si se puede habeebti (yes we can [Spanish] my love [Arabic]).
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music, your smart TV or ask Alexa. Subscribe and share the link with 3 friends!
Links:
Blue Wolf mass surveillance of Palestinians and civilian databasing in Israel: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211116-from-pegasus-to-blue-wolf-how-israels-security-experiment-in-palestine-went-global/
For more information about the Muslim Power Building Project: https://www.lavoice.org/muslim-power-building-project/
Dream of Detroit: https://dreamofdetroit.org/
Believers Bail Out: https://believersbailout.org/
21 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2021: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/21-faith-leaders-watch-2021/
History of the Prophets Volume I Suzanne Haneef: https://kitaabun.com/shopping3/history-prophets-islam-suzanne-haneef-p-1081.html
Email Hazel: hazel.l.gomez@gmail.com
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IslaminSpanish
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Sakinah Gutierrez, co-founder of IslaminSpanish @islaminspanish discusses her journey to provide Islamic resources in Spanish besides just a translation of the Quran. Her media vision for the community is leaps and bounds ahead of what masjid boards consider mashaAllah, and we want her knowledge shared with the WORLD. Learn about her conversion story, her calling, raising her intersectional kids, support systems, and the work of el Centro.
There are all kinds of herstory lessons here: past, present, and future. Tune in at 6pm on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, ask Alexa, or go to our website and share with 3 friends who’ve never heard about a masjid and cultural center like this one.
Links:
IslaminSpanish: https://www.islaminspanish.org/
Contact your Representative for Uyghur human rights. Click “Contact your member.”
ISPU study on Latinos and Islamophobia: https://www.ispu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ISPU-Infographics_1_WEB.pdf?x46312
Read Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo from Sakinah’s favorites list.
Sancocho recipe: https://antojandoando.com/recetas/sancocho/. Cook it and send us pics!
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Latina Muslima Series: Over DUE: Afro Latina Muslim Midwife Insights
Shownotes:
Eva Martineau, Afro Latina of Mexican and Haitian lineage and nurse midwife, discusses persistent racial disparities in birth care that traumatize primarily minority populations in America. Find out why this researcher didn't stop at stats, but collected degrees as she decided to set the stirrups straight and serve her community to prevent further harm to future generations. She's taking names and kicking false stories we tell about birth in the...well, take a guess.
We've touched on birth work as a social justice movement in the past, but never like this! Hear how poor healthcare affects Latina Muslimahs and their children, get mad and get busy fixing it.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music, ask Alexa, or head over to our website landing page. Link in bio. Share the episode with childbearing Latinas that you know, Muslim or not.
Rapid Fire (Zaiba):
https://medium.com/@megkissack/get-to-know-me-43-quick-fire-questions-d73c36a9a3e0
Links:
Follow Eva on IG: @reclaiming_luz
Who are the Inape?: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-native-new-yorkers-can-never-truly-reclaim-their-homeland-180970472/
Learn more about the Papa Doc regime in Haiti: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210420-50-years-after-papa-doc-haiti-democracy-still-work-in-progress
Immigration is a Birth Justice Issue: Considerations of Health in the Haitian Refugee Crisis: https://pretermbirthca.ucsf.edu/news/immigration-birth-justice-issue-considerations-health-haitian-refugee-crisis
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths — United States, 2007–2016: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6835a3.htm
Pregnant Hispanic women's views and knowledge of prenatal genetic testing: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jgc4.1383
Maternal Mortality in the United States: A Primer: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-brief-report/2020/dec/maternal-mortality-united-states-primer
Analysis of State-Level Immigrant Policies and Preterm Births by Race/Ethnicity Among Women Born in the US and Women Born Outside the US: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2778205
Health effects of Muslim racialization: Evidence from birth outcomes in California before and after September 11, 2001: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721634/
Read Eva’s book pic Working Cures: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807853788/working-cures/
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Best of Mommying While Muslim
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There have been a lot of new listeners recently, and we thought, what better way to give them an intro to the podcast than to provide a montage of our top 5 most downloaded episodes? If you’ve already heard these, you’re ahead of the game, but take a listen to this production to see what the common theme is. Lucky guesses what your fellow listeners prefer to tune into every week?
Tune in every Thursday 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music or ask Alexa. You can always just go to our website listed below and take a listen, but don’t forget to share the khair with 3 friends. And if you’re new to the podcast, catch up on past episodes!
Links:
Read the PATRIOT Act if you have a lot of time or just really want to get mad: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-107publ56/pdf/PLAW-107publ56.pdf
Read the Countering Islamophobia bill proposed by Reps. Omar & Schakowsky: https://omar.house.gov/sites/omar.house.gov/files/OMARMN_042_xml.pdf
Find your Representative’s contact info to send an email/letter of thanks: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Representatives co-sponsoring the Countering Islamophobia bill: Omar, Schakowsky, Bass, Bowman, Carson, Correa, Dean, Dingell, Eshoo, García (IL), Green (TX), Grijalva (AZ), Jacobs (CA), Jackson Lee, H. Johnson (GA), Jones, Kim (NJ), Lowenthal, C. Maloney, McGovern, Newman, Norton, Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Pascrell, Payne, Phillips, Pocan, Pressley, Rush, Sires, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, and Williams
#5 favorite episode: FEB 18, 2021 SEASON 2 EPISODE 52 “Exploring Sex & Intimacy with Islamic Spiritual Perspectives”
#4 favorite episode: SEP 09, 2021 SEASON 2 EPISODE 28 “Queer Muslim Moms”
#3 favorite episode: SEP 16, 2021 SEASON 2 EPISODE 29 “Queer Muslim Kids”
#2 favorite episode: FEB 13, 2020 SEASON 1 EPISODE 49 “Islamic Perspectives on Sexual Intimacy”
#1 favorite episode: SEP 10, 2020 SEASON 2 EPISODE 30 “Spiritual Sustenance with Secrets of Divine Love”
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Unheard: Deaf Muslim Resources
Shownotes:
Which one of us has met a deaf Muslim? Chances are, very few, but it’s most likely because we aren’t creating spaces where we can, as Andaleeb Elayan, Executive Director of Global Deaf Muslim discusses today. We learn A LOT about accessibility and inclusivity and the most important pearl of the day from Andaleeb herself, “Your deaf child can do EVERYTHING except hear.” Treat them as such.
For our podcast audience, please be mindful that the voice you hear is that of voice interpreter, Cheryl, because Andaleeb speaks ASL. If you want to see Andaleeb speak, visit our You Tube channel: Mommying While Muslim. Remember that like all our guests, Andaleeb has her own voice and speaks for herself.
We had some connectivity issues and lost Zaiba during the course of this interview, but she’s in here in spirit! Don’t forget to check our notes to sign up for low cost ASL courses hosted by GDM. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, your smart TV, or ask Alexa.
Links:
For more information about Global Deaf Muslim and Andaleeb Elayan: https://globaldeafmuslim.org/
Email Andaleeb: andaleeb@globaldeafmuslim.org
Sign up for low cost ASL classes with GDM: tinyurl.com/aslgdm
Find out more about Gallaudet University: https://www.gallaudet.edu/
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Ups and Down Syndrome
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It’s hard to imagine that schools would discriminate against students with disabilities, but Saadia Qureshi leaves us breathless as she discusses her fight to obtain inclusive education for her daughter with Down syndrome. The system is not designed to help our disabled students succeed, and the “separate but equal” model is anything BUT.
Learn not just about the emotional weight of a diagnosis without community or medical support, but how we can do better by insisting on equity in our educational settings. We pay for them, so they may as well serve us and our kids!
Links:
Follow Saadia on IG: @ketomuslimmom
Email Saadia: saadiasketokitchen@gmail.com
Get involved with advocacy work for Down syndrome: https://www.ndss.org/programs/national-advocacy-public-policy/
Find a Buddy Walk near you: https://www.ndss.org/play/national-buddy-walk-program/
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Opening Our Eyes to Blindness
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Sara Minkara continues our Disability Awareness series this month by talking about her blindness, the challenges of blind Muslims, and how to change the disability narrative from one of charity to the “suffering,” to one of value-based inclusion: you are important because you are you in every way you are created. The current “favor” dynamic perpetuates ableism and disempowers the disabled, so we have to undo the pity perspective. Accessibility and integration are RIGHTS that will change the problem, not favors done by the abled to others.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google play, Amazon Music, ask Alexa, or hit our website to take a listen.
Links:
For more information about Sara Minkara LLC: https://saraminkara.com/
Email Sara: info@saraminkara.com
Facebook documents leaked: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/facebook-documents-show-how-toxic-instagram-is-for-teens-wsj.html
WSJ report on Facebook’s effects: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739?mod=hp_lead_pos7
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Autism & MUHSEN
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Dilshad Ali shares a day in the life of a mom raising an adult child with autism, inspiring and teaching us today. Tune in to hear all the things we take for granted, and all the beautiful things we miss. Rather than perpetuate cultural behavior and silence around disabilities, we break the sound barrier for Muslim Americans to better support moms in the same position as Dilshad. We don't pity, other, ignore, and pretend disabled Muslims don't exist anymore!
Get inspired by Dilshad's mutiple roles in autism advocacy, including her work at MUHSEN, a nonprofit dedicating to fighting for disabled Muslims who've been marginalized for far too long.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon, ask Alexa, or click on the link in bio.
Links:
For more information about MUHSEN: https://muhsen.org/who-we-are/
Email Dilshad: dilshad@hautehijab.com
Find Dilshad on IG: @DilshadDAli
Find Dilshad Twitter: @DilshadDAli
Read her blog: @muslimahnextdoor
Read the Haute Hijab blog Dilshad edits: https://blog.hautehijab.com/
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All the Ways We Come Out
Shownotes:
Fawzia Mirza AKA Ayesha Trump, storyteller, actor, and director, (oh, yeah, AND lawyer) joins us to talk about all the transformations we make as humans in order to learn our personal identity. It's not just queer Muslims who have to come out--we all have to decide at some point who and what we are going to be. The path is unique, just like us. We all get to decide what we do about people who think we aren't "Muslim enough."
Dare to unwrap the magic of us.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or click the link in bio.
Links:
Learn more about Fawzia: https://www.fawziamirza.com/
Fawzia on IG: @thefawz
Post Pulse shooting article on queer Muslims: https://www.wbez.org/stories/from-tragedy-some-hope-muslim-lgbtq-look-to-dispel-taboos/9a15cf82-3aae-47eb-afeb-467fdec9fd5f
Masjid Al Rabia: https://masjidalrabia.org/
Texas’ criminalization of abortions and its effects: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1279961
Catch our old episode “Hasan vs. Jafri”: https://www.buzzsprout.com/271577/6098098
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Transgender Muslims
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Feroza Syed speaks about her experiences as a transgender Muslim, her transition, and what made her go public with her history. Adoption discrimination against LGBTQi+ couples is the anti motherhood story we know will touch us today.
We learn terms, more about unmosqueing marginalized Muslims, and how we can be better allies to our momsisters and their kids from all walks of life.
It's a double episode drop this week, so plan a podcast binge! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, Amazon Music, or ask Alexa. Leave a review if it's your first time listening to us.
Links: (Often guests provide their social media handles or websites)
Feroza Fights for Fair Housing: https://www.vogue.com/article/across-the-south-a-trans-housing-movement-grows
Contact Feroza on IG: @ferozasyedatl
Find out more about Muslims for Progressive Values: https://www.mpvusa.org/
CAIR-MD letter to PAHC: https://www.cair.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PAHC-Grant.pdf
Why we don’t say “transexual”: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/transgender-vs-transexual#transsexual
Understanding terminology: https://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender
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Queer Muslim Kids
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We get a lot of SOS messages from queer Muslim kids and what better way to answer them than by bringing on Erum Rani, founder of Iftikhar Community, who shares her journey of coming out and what that meant mentally and spiritually for her. Hear firsthand what it’s like inside the mind and heart of a queer Muslim child before rejecting them, and how cultural taboos oppress the most important relationship they have: with Allah.
Special note: Talking about something that the general Muslim community fears or ostracizes does not make it an endorsement or convert anyone into being queer. Talking about it WILL humanize the people we are so quick to love when we “control them” and often too quick to reject when they make adult decisions that ultimately they’re responsible for. It’s not love them “anyway.” It’s, just love them.
Links: (Often guests provide their social media handles or websites)
Contact Erum at iftikharcommunityoftexas@gmail.com
Learn more @iftikharcommunityoftexas
Support for South Asian parents of queer kids: https://www.desirainbow.org/
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Queer Muslim Moms
Shownotes:
Shenaaz Janmohamed of Queer Crescent joins us today to discuss her experiences as an LGBTQi+ person. Find out how that informs her exploration of and work towards social justice and equity. What do I do if my kid comes out? How do masajid make ALL kids feel safe? What is gender and what is sex? These are a few of the questions we discuss today.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple podcasts, or click the link in bio after air time.
Links:
Learn more about Queer Crescent: www.queercresecent.org
Affirming Masjid Al Rabia: https://masjidalrabia.org/
Too Cute To Be Binary by Pidgeon Pagonis: http://pid.ge/
Unico Como Yo: https://socialjusticebooks.org/one-of-a-kind-like-me/
What Makes a Baby: https://www.corysilverberg.com/what-makes-a-baby
Against White Feminism: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1027660980/against-white-feminism-is-an-urgent-call-to-action-for-solidarity-and-justice
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Muslim Faces in the News
Shownotes:
Noor Tagouri, journalist and storyteller, talks today about representative stories and how THAT's news. Or the NEW news. Find out how she uses stories to unearth truths we want to hide, or ones we just don't know because mainstream voices aren't telling them. WE need to do it. Pick up the mic or the pen.
It's our turn.
Links:
Learn more about Noor: https://www.noortagouri.com/
Noor on IG: @noor
Noor on Twitter: @NTagouri
Email Noor: contact@nourtagouri.com
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Mothers Making News
Shownotes:
Nargis Rahman joins us today to talk about her dreams, her path to journalism with its U-turns forced by motherhood, and how she practiced her mommying philosophy of “wing it” with her own return to work. Her gems on our God-given potential, and the right of the people upon us to use it, are more than inspirational. They’re aspirational.
Learn about storytelling as a function of community journalism and how mainstream coverage often misses the treasure box of stories under its nose, when sisterhood elevating its individual members fosters our collective success, and about Nargis’ favorite community piece.
Links:
Learn more about Nargis: https://nargisthewriter.com/about/
Nargis on IG: @nargisthewriter
Nargis on Twitter: @nargisthewriter
Email Nargis: nargisthewriter@gmail.com
Read about Bismillah Kabob: https://civileats.com/2019/05/24/the-halal-restaurant-helping-build-community-in-suburban-detroit/
Pediatric COVID hospitalizations: https://www.businessinsider.com/record-high-rates-kids-hospitalized-with-covid-as-delta-spreads-2021-8
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Power of the Pen
Shownotes:
Rowaida Abdelaziz joins us today to talk about the accidental journalism bug and why it’s important in our endeavor to experience fair and balanced news coverage.
We also discuss moms’ roles in supporting their kids’ dreams, role models and mentors when there are so few, keeping our heads down and ears up listening for the scoop, and getting paid in pizza. What opportunities does the media landscape offer to writers and consumers of news?
Fighting disinformation and misinformation is our job, not just as humans, but as Muslims, and supporting truth in all its forms is critical and true diversity takes work, even in the news!
It’s not us, we’re not crazy, per Rowaida! Studies prove that news coverage, much of which is informing policy, is not unbiased or stereotypical. Nuance is news, and we can pick up our pens to do that. Get writing!
Links:
Learn more about Rowaida: heruproar.com
Rowaida on FB: Rowaida Abdelaziz and Twitter: @Rowaida_Abdel
When Swimming as a Muslim Woman is a Political Act: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/muslim-women-are-fighting-to-swim-in-america_n_5d5594d1e4b056fafd08aa70
Motivated Muslim Voters: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/muslim-voters-impact-swing-states_n_5f99d1c1c5b6a4a2dc81c9eb
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Mainstream News: The Muslim Agenda
Shownotes:
The first to kick off August’s Muslims in the News series is Laila Alarian, Emmy and Peabody award winning journalist and Executive Producer of the Al Jazeera English investigative documentary program Fault Lines. She takes over the soapbox today, which is not to be missed.
While she’s breaking news on narcotics and Palestine, she’s also dealing with pandemic homeschooling and the emotional struggles working moms, which is ALL moms on our podcast to be clear, deal with, so it should resonate on multiple levels. Gem from the episode: “Perfect is the enemy of the good” (Laila Alarian is #smartmomgoals).
Find out what the mainstream news agenda is and if there is a conspiracy making Muslims look bad in the news. How do we break through that while we break glass ceilings at the same time?
Links:
Watch Fault Lines: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines
Made in Bangladesh by Laila Alarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aubn7BKi47g
Email Laila Alarian: Lailaa@gmail.com
Palestinian teen shot at funeral of Palestinian teen July 2021: https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/palestinian-teen-shot-by-israeli-forces-dies-hundreds-attend-funeral-47606
Jonathan Brown Georgetown faculty (See, we included you, Jonathan!): https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYoCAAW/jonathan-brown
Lama Alarian on Sheikh Jarrah for Vice News: https://youtu.be/ZiSRCPiklhI
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