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.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

CW: Police ViolenceAbolitionists 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. Follow Professor Donna Auston: @tinymuslimahFollow the Black Muslim COVID Coalition: @bmcoalitionFollow Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative: @MuslimARCDonate to bail funds: https://brooklynbailfund.org/Listen to Teshale's BK USA episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9333fceaFollow 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 @BRICTVFollow Professor Donna Auston: @tinymuslimahFollow the Black Muslim COVID Coalition: @bmcoalitionFollow Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative: @MuslimARCDonate to bail funds: https://brooklynbailfund.org/Listen to Teshale's BK USA episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9333fceaFollow 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★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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. Follow Imam Khalid Latif @KLatif Follow Lena @lpafridiFollow 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 @BRICTVWatch BRIC's videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/brictvoundation 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.SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Corona has thrown M Train (and all of society) for a bit of a loop. So we threw the script out for this episode and called up Dr. Ahmed Hozain, a surgical resident and researcher currently working in NYC, to talk about COVID-19, convincing your boomer parents to stay home, and virtual jum'ahs. Then, we returned to a simpler time before pre-isolation, when we interviewed North African dance teacher Esraa Wardah about her work decolonizing dance classes and building spaces that decenter whiteness. Because of Corona, M Train may experience some delays. Please be patient. 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. Follow Ahmed Hozain on twitter @AhmedHozain Follow Esraa Warda on Instagram @wardadance Follow Ahmed on twitter @radbrowndads. 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 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/ 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. SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.

On our third stop, host Ahmed Ali Akbar and producer Shirin Barghi take the M Train to Flatbush, Brooklyn to dine on dhalpuri, buss-up-shot and doubles, before washing it all down with some sorrel. Along the way, they talk to Johnny Ali and Kerrie Bissoon of the famed Ali's Roti and fashion designer Nzinga Knight of Brooklyn Brewed Sorrel about the dialogue Trinidadian cuisine creates between Indian and African cultures and why the roti shop is as much an icon of NYC Muslim culture as is the halal cart. Tune in to find out how Black, Desi, Carribbean, and Muslim cultures co-exist and break bread within their homes and their diaspora. For more information on Nzinga's Brooklyn Brewed Sorrel, visit https://nzingaknight.com/products/brooklyn-brewed-sorrel. And follow Ali's Roti Shop here: https://www.instagram.com/alisrotishop/?hl=en. •M Train is hosted and produced by @radbrowndads, produced by @Shebe86, edited by @MBasilRahim, and executive produced by @sacharmathias. This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. •SSSS is on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething, and on Patreon at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show. •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 new 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.

On our second stop, host Ahmed Ali Akbar and producer Shirin Barghi take the M Train to BRIC House in Downtown Brooklyn for a panel discussion centered on Muslims in politics. Our guests for the night were Shahana Hanif, New York City Council Candidate, Sadaf Jaffer, Mayor of Montgomery County in New Jersey (and first Muslim woman elected mayor in America), and Mohammad Missouri, Executive Director of JetPAC. We talked about the Muslim bloc swinging leftwards, confronting Islamophobic trolls who live in your communities, and the challenges of representing a group as diverse as American Muslims. For more from New York City Council Candidate Shahana Hanif, visit https://shahanafrombk.com. For more on Mayor Sadaf Jaffer, visit https://www.sadafjaffer.com. For more on Jet-PAC and Muhammad's work, visit https://www.jet-pac.com/about-us. •M Train is hosted and produced by @radbrowndads, produced by @Shebe86, edited by @MBasilRahim, and executive produced by @sacharmathias. This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. •SSSS is on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething, and on Patreon at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show. •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 new 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 aboard the M Train – a new six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio. In each episode, host Ahmed Ali Akbar and producer Shirin Barghi will take you to a different New York City neighborhood to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. Our debut episode focuses on the work of two sex educators redefining the place of sex and intimacy in Islam. For our first stop, we head to Brooklyn to speak to Sid Azmi about her journey from radiation therapy to business woman and sex educator, running a “educated pleasure shop” in Park Slope. Then, we speak to sex-ed teacher and co-creator of the storytelling performance "Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love," Wazina Zondon, about navigating queerness, sex, and Islam. For more from Sid Azmi, visit: https://www.pleasenyc.com. For more Wazina Zondon visit https://comingoutmuslim.com, http://www.muslimalliance.org and follow her @wazinazondon. •M Train is hosted and produced by @radbrowndads, produced by @Shebe86, edited by @MBasilRahim, and executive produced by @sacharmathias. This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. •SSSS is on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething, and on Patreon at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show. •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. •For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICradio and @BRICTV.