The Middle West Podcast team are joined today by Ibrahim Halawa, who was imprisoned unjustly in Egypt for four years, and only made it out of there alive after a lengthy campaign for his release and the Irish government's support. We discuss prison conditions, the 2011 and 2013 coups, and Dr. Morsi's passing.  

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The Middle West Podcast Team are joined remotely by Abeer Shahid, a (kind of) Irishman who is the editor-in-chief of Ihyaa, a Muslim lifestyle magazine. We discuss life as a Muslim in the West, work-life balance, and the important work that Ihyaa do. You can read the Ihyaa magazine on ihyaa.co.uk 

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In this episode, Assad and Thaqib sit with Mohammed Yusuf, a Mancunian dentist who leads taraweeh prayers in a mosque in Manchester. We discuss the impact of Ramadan on his schedule, how people can start the Qur'an memorisation journey, and beatings.  

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The Middle West Podcast team sit with Marwan Akari, one of the vice presidents of FOSIS and a long-time activist. We discuss the Muslim community in Ireland, working for Google, and Assad's new-found love of communism.  

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Thaqib, Assad, and Abdus-Sami discuss the upcoming month of Ramadan, different plans for it, the value of reading Qur'an, and try to stay away from the mention of cars.  

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The Middle West Podcast team sit with Talha Ghannam, the founder of QuranClub, an online community created to help people read more Quran together. Talha talks about his journey so far, his experiences, and why he founded QuranClub.  You can find out more and download the QuranClub app from: http://www.quranclub.org/   

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In the second of our two-part media series, the Middle West podcast team sit with Mustafa Al-Dabbagh, a media-focused activist. We discuss why he chose to work with the media, what he thinks Muslim organisations should be doing to improve media outreach work, and why London is the centre of the universe (it's really not!) 

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In the first of a two-part media series, the Middle West podcast team sit with Azhar Qayum, who has been active in representing Muslims in the media since the 1990's. We discuss Islamophobia in the media, being middle class, and Azhar's take on the response of the media to the NZ mosque terrorist attack.  

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The Middle West team discuss charity work in Lebanon, Muslim Brits traveling for charity missions, and the New Zealand terrorist attack. 

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The Middle West podcast team sit with Abdullah Saif, a Birmingham-based activist and talk about life, politics, Prevent, and his upcoming book. Email us at [email protected] with any comments, feedback, rants, etc. 

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