I-AMM: The Defining Moment

I-AMM: The Defining Moment

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I-AMM: The Defining Moment episodes

  • Modernity Part 1: Egypt
    Join us for our conversation on the four modernities. Part 1 of this series focuses on Egypt from the 18th dynasty to its fall.
    This new format for I-AMM will focus on longer conversation divided into episodes as a series.
    Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and explore our website at I-AMM.org to learn about all the work we do.
    We explore stories around family and belonging with an eye towards humanizing the often-politicized AMM folk who exist between seemingly disparate identities.
    46 min
  • Red Peace Machine: A News Program

    Raw and uncut, the Red Peace Machine discusses the Trumpist insurrection and the history of insurrection in the US.

    Red Peace Machine is a new program as a collaboration between The Austin School and I-AMM.

    Each week, we will discuss the news of the week and look at the history of the news.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Season 2, Episode 4: Perceptions, Teaching, and Representation
    In this episode, we talk with Armin about his experience teaching school to children going through difficult times, how he is seen as an Iranian-American and representing himself in America. Join us for this conversation with the Austin ISD High School Teacher of the Year!
    Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and explore our website at I-AMM.org to learn about all the work we do.
    We explore stories around family and belonging with an eye towards humanizing the often-politicized AMM folk.
    30 min
  • Season 2, Episode 3: Egypt Confounds Categories
    In this episode, Ramish and Roy have a conversation about how Egypt is perceived, it's culture, and history.
    Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and explore our website at I-AMM.org to learn about all the work we do.
    We explore stories around family and belonging with an eye towards humanizing the often-politicized AMM folk who exist between seemingly disparate identities.
    43 min
  • Season 2 Episode 2: Categories
    In this episode, we talk with Mohan about the challenges of categories within the AMM, citizenship, and representation.
    Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and explore our website at I-AMM.org to learn about all the work we do.
    We explore stories around family and belonging with an eye towards humanizing the often-politicized AMM folk who exist between seemingly disparate identities.
    52 min
  • Bonus: Townhall - Police in AMM Communities
    Bonus recording of Interconnecting—Arabs, Muslims and Middle Easterners (I-AMM) with our brilliant panelists, Dr. Amilcar Shabazz, Sabina Ibraheem, Dr. Maryam Kashani, Sara Bawany and Dr. Phil Hopkins on how to think about policing in our communities. This episode was recorded through Zoom.
    Discussion begins at 3:20.
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    We hope you can join these live events in the future!
    48 min
  • Season 2, Episode 1, To be young, Indian, and Hip
    In this episode, we talk through belonging with Habiba, from youth in NYC to a parent in Texas.
    We feature our guest Habiba, a close friend who shares stories of her experience in desi spaces in New York with culture she helped shape and work she does to this day in Texas to craft Desi spaces.
    Visit I-AMM.org to see our work and follow us on social media.
    We explore stories around family and belonging with an eye towards humanizing the AMM folk who exist between seemingly disparate identities.
    56 min
  • Episode 6: Identity & Belonging as Mixed Race, Multi-Religious, and fuzzy AMM
    In this episode, we dive deep into questions of belonging and AMM identity at the "boundaries". 
    We feature guest Rhie Azzam Morris, who "works with street kids, was a street kid". She describes herself as mixed Lebanese with standard, white, Texan, southern, good-ol-boy. 
    We explore stories around family and belonging with an eye towards humanizing the often-politicized AMM folk who exist between seemingly disparate identities.
    41 min
  • Episode 5: Austin Area Shero- Bahia Amawi
    We are so excited to share our conversation with local AMM shero, Bahia Amawi.
    She shares how she suddenly found her job as a speech language pathologist with Pflugerville ISD restricted her freedom of expression and her journey fighting back.
    Some say Don't Mess with Texas, we say Don't Mess with Bahia!
    In this episode, we discuss what it means to be an American citizen as AMM, how we stay true to our principles, Bahia's relationship with the BDS movement, and Freedom of Expression in Texas.
    39 min
  • Episode 4: Assimilation and Aspiring to Whiteness- Part 2
    In this episode, we pick up where we left off in episode 3, diving deeper into what it means to assimilate as an AMM person. Maira and Ramish speak to what assimilation means for the South Asian community by deconstructing billboards in Sugarland, TX. What does it mean to be a model minority among South Asian Americans? Set against this background of a white dominant culture that tries to seduce us with uplift, what does authentic American AMM culture look like anyway?
    34 min

About I-AMM: The Defining Moment

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As AMM (Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern) folk, we are a very diverse group of loosely-defined, fuzzy-boundaried people in the US. We are Black, Brown and white, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, atheist, agnostic—and all the other levels of religious commitment and interest. What bring us together is our connection to the Islamicate world.