M Train

Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are fighting to abolish it. In this episode we talk with Nour Ballout, an interdisciplinary artist and curator, and the founder of Habibi House, a neighborhood-based community art space and social engagement residency.

Follow Nour Balloutd on Instagram and Twitter @nouraballout and learn more about their work here https://www.nourballout.com/

• M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/

•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. 

•M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.

Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are fighting to abolish it. In this episode we talk with Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad – the Founder and President of Muslim Wellness Foundation (MWF) – on the mental health impacts of surveillance on the community. 

Follow Dr. Rashad on Instagram and Twitter @KameelahRashad and learn more about the Muslim Wellness Foundation here https://www.muslimwellness.com/

• M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/

•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. 

•M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.

Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are still fighting to abolish it. In this episode we talk with Moustafa Bayoumi – author and professor at Brooklyn College – on the long life of profiling some twenty years after 9/11.

Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are still fighting to abolish it. In this episode we talk with Albert Fox Cahn – a lawyer and the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P) on the ways local surveillance threatens public safety, equity, and democracy.

Follow Albert on Instagram and Twitter @FoxCahn and check out the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P) https://www.stopspying.org 

• M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/

•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. 

•M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.

Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are still fighting to abolish it. In this episode, we talk to journalist Vanessa Taylor and her work focusing on the intersections of tech and Black Muslims.

Follow Vanessa on Instagram and Twitter @BaconTribe and subscribe to her newsletter https://nazar.substack.com/ 

• M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/

•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. 

•M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.

Welcome back aboard the M Train – a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio! Our second season focuses on the way big tech is changing the face of surveillance on Muslim New Yorkers. In our very first episode, we talk to Asad Dandia – one of the plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit that successfully sued the New York City Police Department for its prejudicial surveillance of Muslim communities.

Follow Asad on Instagram and Twitter @DandiaAsad and lean more about his case here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88njj3/i-was-being-spied-on-911s-painful-legacy-for-muslim-americans

• M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/

•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. 

•M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.

CW: Police Violence

Abolitionists protests are sweeping the nation as the COVID19 pandemic continues to ravage Black communities. Black Muslims in all fields are at the forefront during this historical moment. We spoke to Black Muslim Covid Coalition member Professor Donna Auston and frontline nurse “Lady” to discuss social movements, Black Muslim activism on police and prison and abolition, and the disproportionate effect the pandemic is having on black folks. Plus: our sister podcast, Brooklyn, USA, sent us a voice note from a protestor who was arrested during the George Floyd protests in june.

This is the final episode of the M Train miniseries. See Something Say Something will return after a break. Thank you all for listening.

Follow Ahmed on Twitter @radbrowndads. 

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Follow the Black Muslim COVID Coalition: @bmcoalition

Follow Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative: @MuslimARC

Donate to bail funds: https://brooklynbailfund.org/

Listen to Teshale's BK USA episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9333fcea

Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86. 

Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias. 

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Follow Professor Donna Auston: @tinymuslimah

Follow the Black Muslim COVID Coalition: @bmcoalition

Follow Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative: @MuslimARC

Donate to bail funds: https://brooklynbailfund.org/

Listen to Teshale's BK USA episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9333fcea

Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86. 

Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias. 

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Burying a loved one is never easy. But for Muslims New Yorkers, the price of land, gentrification, and ritual practices complicates an already difficult process. As a result, most Muslims in the 5 boroughs tend to be buried hours away from their homes, at cemeteries in Long Island or New Jersey. With the death rate in NYC soaring due to COVID-19, Muslim funeral homes have borne the burden of a crisis that developed long before quarantine. How does one grapple with saying goodbye to our loved ones when burial is less than ideal?

To answer these questions, we speak to housing policy expert Lena Afridi about losing and burying her father over a year ago. Then, Imam Khalid Latif of ICNYU shares some of the pressures that funeral homes in New York are facing during the COVID-19 crisis.

M Train releases bi-weekly and each episode focuses on New York City metro area and the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway.

Donate to ICNYU’s Coronavirus Financial Hardship Grants: https://www.launchgood.com/project/coronavirus_emergency_response_financial_hardship_grants#!/

Read Lena’s Article: “Death and Life in Great American Cities”: https://thenewinquiry.com/death-and-life-in-great-american-cities/

Find ICNYU’s Virtual Ramadan Programming here: https://icnyu.org/

Please consider signing up with the National Bone Marrow Registry, especially if you are from an underrepresented group. Sign up here: https://bethematch.org/

Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. 

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Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86. 

Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86. 

Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias. 

Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething.

Follow BRIC on Twitter @BRICTV

Watch BRIC’s videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/brictv

oundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges/

This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. 

For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio.

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