We just worked on it for like a year and a half. Rund, what have you enjoyed about working with Ramtin?

hide caption. And by the end of that journey, we hope to have a better understanding of how it impacts the world today. But then Trump took office. Now she’s in front of the mic for a new NPR podcast called Throughline. Customs and Border Protection has admitted to inappropriately targeting Iranian Americans and breaching agency protocol by holding travelers at the border, saying agents got “a little overzealous.”. Some faith-based advocates argue that the right to abortion is a constitutional one, protected by the freedom to exercise religion. He also wrote about his case in the Boston Globe. Kashmiri and Palestinian activists protested a Harvard talk by the Indian consul general, who has urged Kashmir’s Hindu Pandits to copy Israel by creating settlements on Muslim-owned land. The sect’s legacy is often ignored in narratives on early U.S. Muslims.

Med student Solomon Rajput, a progressive congressional hopeful in Michigan, seeks to beat one of the oldest political dynasties in the U.S. A Somali Uber driver is making a longshot bid for Rep. Ilhan Omar’s seat in Congress. Rund: Ramtin seems to have an endless list of talents. In each episode, Abdelfatah and co-host Ramtin Arablouei look at a historical event in an effort to understand how it’s affected the world today.

From the Archives: Martin Luther King Jr. Migratory Birds Flock to Anina Gerchick ’76’s Ecological Art, Design Unveiled for New Art Museum With ‘Its Own Character’, Rally ’Round the Cannon: Speech Impediments. Or how coffee once struck fear in the hearts of Europeans. And how one marketing genius helped create today's opioid epidemic. “I’m still not sure people realize the almost comic extent of the surveillance,” Ramzi Kassem, who helped lead the legal fight against the program, says. //-->

Being producers on those shows has shaped our work in every possible way.

The parents of a Muslim Marine recruit have petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s dismissal of their $100 million wrongful death lawsuit. If the U.S. isn’t forced to dismantle the list, Americans will continue to be "treated like second class citizens," warns lawyer and plaintiff Hassan Shibly.

Host Rund Abdelfatah speaks with Daniel Immerwahr, a history professor at Northwestern University, who the changing ways that America has identified itself over the years. Ramtin, what have you enjoyed about working with Rund? Dearborn’s Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, a U.S. citizen, says he was targeted for his faith when he was questioned for hours by customs with no explanation. Really, anything that's in the headlines or happening in the world today is fair game. “We didn’t know who to trust, or where we could turn for help.” Though he sued the NYPD and reached a settlement, Bloomberg has refused to apologize for the program. We sent an email to with a link to finish logging in. Two former employees of Anna’s House sued the Michigan restaurant chain, saying they were fired for their race and religion.

This six-part radio series, “The Other Latif,” tells Nasser’s story. An Applebee’s manager asked a Muslim family to leave after they were harassed and called terrorists by an angry customer. An Ohio woman was charged with assault for allegedly harassing her Muslim Uber driver after asking him about Trump.

After outcry, Cal State San Bernardino canceled a course called “History of Islam: Mohammed to ISIS,” whose instructor had no relevant background. Living sculptures can reconnect migration routes like stones across a stream, The building itself is composed of nine interlocking cubes, or pavilions, Behind the Research: Professor Ismail White, politics and public affairs, ‘We cannot blindly trust our government or school board leaders’, The University, Social Justice, and Free Inquiry, Alumni Start Movement to Lift Up Black-Owned Bookstores.

© 2020 The Trustees of Princeton University, A new collective seeks to educate while also funding Black authors and booksellers, ‘Let me channel that grief into momentum,’ says Jessica Li ’18, ‘Being surrounded by nature has been really great, especially in the pandemic,’ Lim says, As the spread of COVID-19 continues, Princeton revises plans for fall semester. The Intercept — As Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign surges, scrutiny of his surrogate Linda Sarsour has intensified. Jessica Li ’18 and Weimen Li ’17 Are Bringing Masks to the U.S. Xiuhui Lim ’05 Goes Off the Grid Living at a Cabin in the Woods, Princeton Renames Wilson School and Residential College, Citing Former President’s Racism, Princeton Returns to Remote Classes for the Fall. So on Throughline we're trying to explore the connections between things that have happened in the past and our current world. I’m journalist Aysha Khan, and you’re reading my monthly roundup of the latest news stories about Muslims in the U.S. Radiolab — Latif Nasser, also known as Guantanamo Bay detainee #244, has spent over 17 years locked up for allegedly being Al Qaeda’s top explosives expert. We are just so excited to share all these amazing, rarely told stories. The Marshall Project — Did the murder of three Muslim college students in Chapel Hill five years ago meet the definition of a hate crime? We tend to not want to look back. Berkeley artist Salma Arastu’s paintings play with Islamic calligraphy to show people what the Quran has taught her. History is inherently dramatic — it has gripping stories, it’s cinematic — and we always thought that it’s a shame to not bring to life those stories which already have so much depth to them as is.

A Turkish activist was once a rising star in the MAGA world, embraced for her money and activism as an ex-Muslim. 3. Muslim students at UNC Chapel Hill slammed the school for ignoring the anniversary of the murders of Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha.

Slate’s Aymann Ismail isn’t just a journalist. “Our sacred spaces had been violated,” he wrote. So we cover all sorts of topics, ranging from politics to sports to culture to technology, with both domestic and international reach.

The podcast will allow listeners to take a step back from the rapid-paced news cycle and more profoundly absorb the historical context at play in the dialogue surrounding today's headlines. I also never have to worry about whether we are on the same page. The legal question: Can the men sue the individual agents for money damages under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act? Democrats are missing a critical opportunity to confront Bloomberg on TV about Muslim surveillance, Jalal Baig writes. Rund Abdelfatah (left) and Ramtin Arablouei (right) explore the archives. Kassem heads up the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) legal clinic at CUNY School of Law, which supports Muslim and minority communities targeted by the government with a national security and counterterrorism pretext. As criticism mounts against the newest presidential candidate, Bloomberg is defending the Muslim surveillance program that traumatized a community and netted zero leads. That’s the thing that we love.

Please. The California man spent 14 years in prison after being charged with plotting an attack in the U.S. Reporters have long questioned the evidence against him, and a judge overturned his conviction last year.

The strength of our show comes from that experience and a genuine love of sound.