Growing Up Halal

This is the third and final episode in our new series “The College MSA Field Trip”! Join us each week as we interview members at college/university MSAs around the country to learn about the school, its Islamic community, and the application process! This week, Hanan and Aisha interview Anna Syed, the public relations director of the MSA at UCLA!

This is the second episode in our new series “The College MSA Field Trip”! Join us each week as we interview members at college/university MSAs around the country to learn about the school, its Islamic community, and the application process! This week, Sulphia and Amena interview Aisha Chebbi, a freshman at Princeton University and the host of the Hybrid Podcast!

This is the first episode in our new series “The College MSA Field Trip”! Join us each week as we interview members at college/university MSAs around the country to learn about the school, its Islamic community, and the application process! This week, Sulphia and Hanan interview Asma Bawla, a junior at New York University (NYU) and the host of the Muslimah Podcast!

For many Desi/Muslim families, family friend groups become a second family over time. It’s a special bond that’s formed over years of intense badminton matches at potlucks, funny Sunday School incidents, long Taraweeh prayers at the masjid, chaotic Eid parties, Iftar nights, hiking trips, and more.

The both of us have always felt that our group has become more than just a circle of friends that meets every weekend. In all honesty, it’s been our strongest link to our culture, tradition, and religion, one that we are extremely blessed to have.

So in today’s episode, we’re joined by our family friends to talk about the importance of family friend groups and what ours means to us!

As rising seniors, we’ve been really busy thinking a lot about college and starting our college apps. We’ve also heard so many concerns about college from our friends and their parents. So today, we’ve brought on Ramsha Khan, a sophmore at Rutgers University, to learn about the college experience for Muslim Americans and what we can expect!

“Heaven on Earth is a Hell for many” In this episode we delve into the ongoing crisis in Kashmir along with a special guest. We hope that our discussion was able to inform you about the issue and hopefully inspire you to take action!

In today’s episode, we talk about the activities and habits we’ve started during quarantine in an effort to keep our mental health in check and maintain our sANiTy in the last 6 months of quarantine.

In this episode, we’ve brought on a special guest to discuss one of most misrepresented aspects of Islam - the hijab. We talk about the true meaning of the hijab, our own hijab journeys, and the handful of misconceptions surrounding it!

In this episode, we discuss our character study of Katara from the show “Avatar the Last Airbender”. Katara has a bad rep among viewers, but we’re here to expIain why she was one of the most well written characters in the ATLA universe. Here’s to our favorite “sweaty stinky genius”, the standby Mom of Team Avatar, Aang’s Avatar State therapist, and the only reason why Team Avatar’s bones aren’t rotting in the desert right now.

In this episode, we talk about the most popular Indian American Muslim in media these days - Hasan Minhaj. We discuss the impact of his work on the weekly Netflix show "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj", why it's been so popular and successful, and what the show means to us.