The Field Between

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We watched Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' and use Arundhati Roy's essay, 'The End of Imagination,' about India's nuclear bomb test in 1998 to discuss it.

Episode artwork: Batata lounging in the sunny window while we discuss the sheer psychological horror of nuclear annihilation.

We finally decided on a new structure for this podcast. Every other week we will discuss a reading, and in the in-between weeks, we'll do something fun. This is a fun one! We do call-out culture on one another's bad behaviors.

We share some of our favorite Sufi poetry by Ibn Arabi and Rumi. Also, SOMEONE gets fact-checked twice on this episode.

If you're interested in the translation we're using, you can find them here:

Michael Sells' translation of Ibn Arab: Stations of Desire

Omid Safi's translation of Rumi: Radical Love

We dive deep into Ahmed's childhood trauma featuring Mel Gibson's body-horror 'The Passion of The Christ' (2004).

We discuss some great American heroes, and then give a Pittsburgh update.

I was gonna do a solo episode on the road, but that didn't work out. Enjoy my ramblings about carvanserai, highway rest stops, and public space.

In this episode, we genuflect before you and beg forgiveness for our tardiness with this episode.

We then discuss our last visit to Thomasville before moving, some updates about glorious Egyptian leader Sisi, a brief update about the anti-LGBTQ letter released last month, and the UPS strike, which teamsters member overwhelmingly voted to authorize.

We'd like to say we won't miss another episode, but we can't make any promises of consistency in the next week. Ahmed will try to do a solo episode on the road as he drives to Pittsburgh, so look forward to that.

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Sorry this one is late. We were both sick with some sort of sickness which made us sick. Did I mention we were sick? We talk about a few new entrants into the presidential race before we discuss Exit West by Mohisin Hamid. Let us know your thoughts about whether or not you should be allowed to say you read a book if you've only listened to the audiobook version.

A council of imams, professors, and Muslim "thought leaders" (mostly men), released a hateful letter about why it's okay to discriminate against queer people. We go through the statement, emerging gayer than before.

There are a lot of great resources out there, but a few queer-affirming Muslim organizations worth following: Masjid al-Rabia, Queer Muslims of Boston, HEART