It's almost Ramadan! So Ahmed brings on nutritionist and dietician Nour Zibdeh to answer all the most pressing questions about how to prep for a month of fasting, focus, and fun. Plus: Nour answers listener submitted questions, like how to avoid Ramadan breath, and whether you can eat pakoras every night for iftar. Follow Nour @Nour Zibdeh Nutrition on Facebook. Follow the show @seesomething and watch our videos at facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email us at [email protected]. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Thanos a thicc daddy? We get into the real issues facing our culture with all-star BuzzFeeders Bim Adewunmi and Tabir Akhter. From the internet ruining everything to why Muslims invented "orbiting," it's gonna be a pop-culture grab bag of an episode. Boy band savant Sara Yasin also stops by to help unpack the status of Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid (ZIGI!!!) and explain why we should WhatsApp our moms to pray for them. Plus: Bim and Ahmed will be on Netflix coming this Summer! Read more about that here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflix-plans-buzzfeed-set-docuseries-follow-1105586 Follow Bim @bimadew and @thirstaidkit — Tabir @tabir — Sara @sarayasin — Ahmed @radbrowndads and @seesomething. Read Bim's essay on romance novels here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bimadewunmi/meet-the-black-women-upending-the-romance-novel-industryRead Sara's essay on Zayn and Gigi here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarayasin/gigi-zayn-power-couple-breakup Watch our videos at facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Find more episodes at buzzfeed.com/seesomethingsaysomething. Email us at [email protected]. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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" at https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/. Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething and watch our videos at facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Find more episodes at buzzfeed.com/seesomethingsaysomething. Email us at [email protected]. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Out", about "The Muslim Next Door," her exploration into stereotyping, representation, and conflict in the American Muslim community. Follow Hoda Katebi @hodakatebi and read her blog at www.joojooazad.com, join her book club @becauseweveread on Instagram and Twitter. Follow Katie Couric @katiecouric on Twitter and watch America Inside Out on the National Geographic channel and Hulu. Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething and watch our videos at facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Find more episodes at buzzfeed.com/seesomethingsaysomething. Email us at [email protected]. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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' finally responded to Hari Kondabolu's documentary 'The Problem With Apu' on a recent episode and we talk about how ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it was. Read Hannah and Talal's piece at: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahallam/trump-republicans-bashing-muslims-without-repercussions Follow Hannah Allam @HannahAllam, Talal Ansari @TalalNAnsari and Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Find more episodes at buzzfeed.com/seesomethingsaysomething. Email us at [email protected]. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 to unpack tribalism in the Muslim community, state violence, and the role of Muslim voices in the conversation about the Stephon Clark shooting. Follow Hanif @NifMuhammad, you can find "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us" and other works by Hanif at http://www.abdurraqib.com/book/. Read his BuzzFeed essay https://www.buzzfeed.com/hanifabdurraqib/before-911-muslims-were-a-curiosity-now-were-targets?utm_term=.oxNYGo26Y#.mfoMQqwRM. Follow Layla @LaylaAPoulos and read her blog NbA Muslims at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nbamuslims/. Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Find more episodes at buzzfeed.com/seesomethingsaysomething. Email us at [email protected]. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does calling white radicals 'terrorists' accomplish? Is it a pandering rhetoric used by white liberals? Joining us to unpack media semantics and government policing around these issues are BuzzFeed's VP Legal and Associate General Counsel Nabiha Syed with BuzzFeed News reporter Talal Ansari. Later we talk with Murtaza Mohammad Hussein, a reporter at The Intercept, to gut check the trial of Noor Salman, the wife of the Pulse shooter who is facing life in prison. Follow Nabiha @nabihasyed, Follow Talal @TalalNAnsari, Follow Murtaza @MazMHussain. Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email us at [email protected]. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nowruz Mubarak! Whether you call it Persian New Year, the Spring Equinox, or something else, it's a time for renewal and refresh celebrated by folks from Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, and more. And so we decided to take a deeper look at how Afghan immigrants celebrate the holiday. First, we talk to political analyst Muhammad Shafiq Hamdam for a quick explainer on Nowruz and its history. Then, we talk to Mina Maqsudi about celebrating Nowruz away from home and learning from her Farsi students. Finally, our producer Rona Akbari chats with Ahmed about the joy of the haft sin. Special thanks to Solmaz Sharif and the New York Persian Cultural Center. Follow Muhammad Shafiq Hamdam @shafiqhamdam. Follow Rona @TheRonaLisa. Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Find more episodes at buzzfeed.com/seesomethingsaysomething. Email us at [email protected]. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Award-winning TV writer Sameer Asad Gardezi stops by the show to chat about his experiences writing for shows like Modern Family, being the only POC in white writer's rooms, and his work with Muslim writer's room projects. And then, stay tuned for a quick gut-check on The Oscars and the 'Inclusion Rider' (what the h*ck is it?) with our beloved Tabir Akhter. You can follow Sameer Gardezi at@sameergardezi and his website sameergardezi.com. Follow his writing room collaborators @MuslimArc, @PopCollab, and @UPFTV. Follow Tabir at @tabir. Follow Ahmed at @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email us at [email protected]. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Content warning: sexual harassment. Hajj is supposed to be one of the most spiritual, moving moments in a practicing Muslim's life. But like all communities, Muslims are having a #MeToo moment, as women have started to share their experiences with sexual harassment and abuse in Mecca and American mosques. First, Ahmed talks to his sister Zainab Akbar, Supervising Attorney with Brooklyn Defenders Services, about their experiences in the pilgrimage nearly a decade ago. Later, SSSS braintrust pals Sara Yasin and Tabir Akhter share their respective relationships to mosques and why the group chat is a holy space. You can follow Tabir @tabir and Sara @sarayasin on Twitter. Subscribe to Sara Yasin's newsletter at tinyletter.com/pleasekillme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices