See Something Say Something

Over the past few years, China has increased its internment and surveillance of the Uyghur people for expressing their culture and Muslim religion. This has spread to the diaspora, where the community lives in fear of retaliation for family members back home, even for something as basic as teaching the Uyghur language itself. So, Ahmed talks to journalist Megha Rajagopalan about her groundbreaking reporting and the context for China's growing surveillance state. Then, he talks to activist and teacher Irade Kashgary, co-founder Ana Care and Education, a Uyghur cultural and linguistic after-school program for kids and young adults in Northern Virginia.

Special thanks to Munawwar Abdulla for production support and guidance on this episode.

Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Your support means the world to us. $10 donors get access to exclusive content

Follow Ahmed on Instagram and Twitter: @radbrowndads.

Follow Megha @Meghara

Follow Irade @IradeKashgary

Links from the episode: thetarimnetwork.com, https://www.norightsnogames.org, and https://www.anacareeducation.com/.

Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething.

Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at [email protected].

Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com.

The July 30th and 31st Democratic debates had 20 (TWENTY!) candidates on stage. So, what do Muslim folks working in PR think about how the candidates fared? We invited on Firdaus Arastu, political consultant and activist, to discuss her work, how American Muslims can reclaim the narrative, and to break down the debates.

Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Your support means the world to us.

New donors of $5 or more get a handwritten postcards and entered in a raffle to win a SSSS mug if they commit by August 9th

Follow Ahmed on Instagram and Twitter: @radbrowndads.

Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething.

Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at [email protected].

Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com.

Ahmed talks to Ramy Youssef, the writer and creator behind the Hulu show "Ramy" and the HBO Comedy Special "Feelings." They discuss representation, future Muslim TV shows they hope to see, and why it's important to resist being "the first."

Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Your support means the world to us.

$10 donors get access to the show's Discord chat server.

Follow Ahmed on Instagram and Twitter: @radbrowndads.

Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething.

Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at [email protected].

Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com.

Journalist Hussein Kesvani's new book, "Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims" covers the many ways British Muslims use the internet. So Ahmed invites Hussein on for a cross-Atlantic conversation on growing up online. They talk about confronting Islamophobic trolls, No-Fap groups, and Muslim dating apps. It's as wild and weird as the internet itself.

Buy "Follow Me, Akhi": https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/follow-me-akhi/

Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Your support means the world to us.

$10 donors get access to the show's Discord chat server.

Follow Ahmed on Instagram and Twitter: @radbrowndads.

Follow Hussein: @hkesvani

Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething.

Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at [email protected].

Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com.

Ramadan and Eid zoomed by and in the meantime, Ahmed watched the new live-action Guy Ritchie Aladdin movie… and turns out kind of enjoyed it? Controversial, yes, but you have to speak your truth. So we're joined this week by Nida Abbasi and Maryam Adamu to discuss Eid traditions and why we had fun in Aladdin despite how flawed the movie is. Also making an appearance: jinn-human romances, Heba Hasan's love for Eid's morning coffee, Salimah's mishap with a mosque bounce house, and The Komina's song, "Eid Mubarak."

Also, we were limited in our mic setup this week and only had access to one, so the show will sound a little bit different this week.

Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Your support means the world to us.

$10 donors get access to the show's Discord chat server.

Follow Ahmed on Instagram and Twitter: @radbrowndads.

Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething.

Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at [email protected].

Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com.

American Muslims have long participated in the struggle against mass incarceration, and this Ramadan, we speak to three people who can help us make sense of where things stand now. First, we talk to Sadiq Davis on his reentry journey through Muslim communities in Chicago and L.A. after 25 years in prison. Then, Justin Mashouf, the filmmaker who captured Sadiq's story in the documentary "The Honest Struggle," talks to us about prison reform and telling Sadiq's story with mercy and compassion. Finally, we talk to Dr. Suad Abdul-Khabeer about Believer's Bailout, a community-led effort to bail out Muslims in pretrial incarceration and ICE custody as a form of zakat.

Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Your support means the world to us.

$10 donors get access to the show's Discord chat server.

Follow Ahmed on Instagram and Twitter: @radbrowndads.

Follow Justin @Mashouf.

Follow Dr. Suad @DrSuad.

Watch The Honest Struggle here: http://honeststruggle.co/watch-now/

Read more about Believer's Bailout here: https://believersbailout.org/ and donate to their LaunchGood: https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/believers_bail_out_3#!/.

Read Sapelo Square's Black Muslims Reflect on the Qur'an series here: https://sapelosquare.com/religion/.

Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething.

Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at [email protected].

Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com.

Ramadan Mubarak! We're happily loopy from our first week of fasting. In this episode, Ahmed talks to New York Times best-selling novelist, Fatima Farheen Mirza. Her novel, "A Place For Us," explores the relationships between the children and parents of a Hyderbadi Muslim family and what happens when a brown boy doesn't meet family and community expectations. It's kind of like that Warsan Shire tweet — "my dj name is dj eldest immigrant daughter." Plus: Salimah, Fatima, and Ahmed share their favorite suhoor memories.

Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar.

$10 donors get access to the show's Discord chat server.

Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething.

Follow Ahmed on Instagram and Twitter: @radbrowndads.

Follow Salimah on Instagram and Twitter: @salimahfm.

Follow Fatima @fatimafmirza on Twitter and @ffmirza on instagram.

Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at [email protected].

Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com.

See Something Say Something is officially back, but we need your help! We've shifted to an independent, crowdfunding model; bear with us as we spend a few minutes discussing our new Patreon and how your donations will help us make the show. A big thank you to the all the Patrons who've already donated and help us keep the show going. But also: remember, we're committed to providing this space for free and it is totally okay if you can't support. After that, join us as Ahmed and Salimah discuss how they're preparing for Ramadan this year.

Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar.

$10 donors get access to the show's Discord chat server.

Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething.

Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads.

Follow Salimah (on Instagram) @salimahfm.

Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at [email protected].

Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com

Ahmed's back for another short SSSS newsbrief! Salimah joins the podcast to talk about the three Somali models featured on April's Vogue Arabia cover, the freshmen Muslim congresswomen, Jordan Peele's "Us," and the attacks on Mali.

PLUS: we have a Patreon now. Donate to the show monthly and help us make the show! Head over to https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. More info on the next episode.

Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething on Twitter andhttps://www.facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast on Facebook.

Ahmed and Abu are back for a one-off episode processing the murder of 50 people in the Christchurch, New Zealand masjids by a white supremacist. Stay subscribed to the feed and our social feeds for more updates on the future of the show after BuzzFeed News.

Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething on Twitter and http:/facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast on Facebook.