Apr 27, 2018
Iranian-American chef, author of “Salt Fat Acid Heat,” and bundle
of joy Samin Nosrat joins us on the show this week. We chat about
her theory behind cooking without recipes, gender and race in the
kitchen and her super secret upcoming show.
Follow Samin @CiaoSamin and purchase her cookbook “Salt Fat Acid
Heat”...
Apr 20, 2018
This week we have two very different but equally exciting guests. First we speak with political fashion blogger Hoda Katebi about “sounding American,” how the East was gay until colonization, and her new book club. Then, we chat with Katie Couric, American journalist and host of new Nat Geo series "American Inside...
Apr 13, 2018
BuzzFeed reporters Hannah Allam and Talal Ansari found dozens of instances where state and local Republican politicians publicly attacked Islam. We sit down with Hannah and Talal to unpack the state of Islamophobia in American politics, civil rights fatigue, and the chaos presidency. Plus, ‘The Simpsons’...
Apr 6, 2018
This week, we cut to the feeling with cultural critic and poet Hanif Abdurraqib, author of "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us". Ahmed and Hanif play a game of ’Carly Rae or Sufi?” and then chat about being the only POC in punk spaces and growing up Muslim. Later we call up Layla Abdullah-Poulos from NbA Muslims...