Podcast appearances and mentions of zahir janmohamed

Twenty years after the Gujarat pogrom, Suchitra Vijayan speaks to Zahir Janmohamed about the moment, his experience on the ground and his work since. The conversation delves into the deep seated anti-Muslim sentiment in India and looks for ways to heal. The conversation was originally held as a Twitter Space session.

Dearborn, Michigan has a vibrant food scene known for its traditional and modern Arabic cuisine. But can Dearborn’s Arab American-owned restaurants make it to the other side of the pandemic? In this episode of Essential Cooking, Zahir Janmohamed joins Ann Delisi and Chef James Rigato to talk about how Dearborn’s Arab American food scene is coping with COVID-19.

At the start of the Biden administration and just two weeks after the siege at the U.S. Capitol, how are immigrants responding to this moment? Three senior journalists in the Feet in 2 Worlds network discuss the opportunities and risks, and the trauma they continue to grapple with from the past four years. Carolina González moderates this conversation with Zahir Janmohamed, Maritza L. Félix and Macollvie Neel.

Oh hi, we didn’t expect you here so soon. KIDDING we totally did and we have podcasts for you. Zane is still on a crusade to change the world with Popular Front, Liz regresses back to a time when stuff was all gumshoes and gals with Case Closed! (Old Time Radio). And Nick rounds it off with a look at food through a racial, cultural, and political lens with The Racist Sandwich. Then we do that thing we do where we review the things from last week. You know the one. It’s the bit with the reviews.Liz Recommends - Case Closed: Old Time Radiohttps://www.relicradio.com/otr/show/caseclosed/From the folks at Relic Radio. Classic entertainment from radio’s golden age. Relic Radio features eight podcasts offering old-time radio from a number of genres.Case Closed is audio play stories from the golden age. Old Time Crime is filled with cops, robbers, and private investigators...Let’s reopen the cases and hear these great stories again!For both: I like the old Sherlock and Johnnie Dollar eps. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/case-closed-old-time-radio/id219708992Nick Recommends - The Racist SandwichRacist Sandwich is an American food podcast hosted by Stephanie Kuo and Juan Diego Ramírez. The podcast was originally hosted by San Francisco Chronicle Food Critic Soleil Ho and journalist Zahir Janmohamed. The podcast focuses on race, gender, and class within the food industry in the United States and abroad.For both: take a pick!LinkZane Recommends - Popular Fronthttps://www.popularfront.co/Popular Front is conflict journalism done differently. They report on the parts of war big media rarely acknowledges, and talk to people they'll never find. This is all independent, funded by members through subscriptions and sponsorship. Popular Front is detailed, niche, and for everyone. You don't need a PhD or an invite to a journo dinner party to be in on this.The podcast will forever be the backbone of Popular Front, but it has since grown to become a grassroots conflict journalism platform. They're doing documentaries, news dispatches, articles, print publications, training, and building a community. For both: Pick One you think you can handlehttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/popular-front/id1364539980?mt=2 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello hello, and welcome back to Cutting Chai Stories with Jayati Vora. If you haven't already listened to last week's episode, my interview with Zahir Janmohamed chock-full of tips and strategies on how to do personal storytelling better, you're missing out. Stop right now and go listen to that one first. If you did already, wonderful. I thought Zahir's tips were so useful that I adapted them for entrepreneurs. Click here to download your FREE guide for an entrepreneur's storytelling cheatsheet: https://mailchi.mp/8296ca2d0bcb/storytelling-cheatsheet I found them so valuable that I wanted to share three of those tips in this episode: namely, it's a snapshot, not an autobiography; the self is a stand-in for something larger; and anchor your story in specifics. In this episode, I take you why these pointers are important, and how to incorporate them into your business content (*cough* About Me page *cough*). If you'd like more in-depth guidance on writing your About Me page, you can get it here: https://gumroad.com/cuttingchaistories#GVPlPj As always, if you like this show, if you find it valuable, will you consider rating the show on Apple Podcasts and leaving me a review? It helps other people find Cutting Chai Stories, and maybe they'll like it just as much as you do. :)

On this extra-juicy, supersized episode of Cutting Chai Stories with Jayati Vora, I interview Zahir Janmohamed about the art of the personal essay. (If his name sounds familiar, it's because I mentioned him on last week's episode.) Zahir Janmohamed is a Zell Writing Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he has received awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting. He is currently the artist-in-residence at the Arab American National Museum. Zahir and I go a ways back: I was his editor many moons ago when I was working at Al Jazeera America, and I knew he would have a ton of writing tips for you, and he didn't disappoint. There are too many gems in this episode to list here, but if you want a handy PDF guide to all the tips he mentioned here, you can grab them here: https://mailchi.mp/e56685294c6b/personalessay As a bonus, I also took some of his tips and created a cheatsheet for you on how to use his writing tips when writing your About Me page, or a social media post, or an email to your list. Grab those here: https://mailchi.mp/8296ca2d0bcb/storytelling-cheatsheet You can connect with Zahir on Twitter @zahirj and on his website: www.zahirjanmohamed.com And here are his recommendations for reading excellent personal essays: James Baldwin essay: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind Kiese Laymon's Heavy: https://www.kieselaymon.com/heavy Jesmyn Ward on her husband's death: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/jesmyn-ward-on-husbands-death-and-grief-during-covid Jen Choi on not loving Paris: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jenhchoi/i-wanted-to-love-paris-but-it-didnt-love-me Viet Thanh Nguyen on didaticism: https://vietnguyen.info/2017/4232 Caroline Paul's "Fighting Fire": https://www.carolinepaul.com/fighting-fire Charles D'Ambrosio on doubt: https://tinhouse.com/the-art-of-the-sentence-charles-dambrosio/ "There was and there was not" book: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/books/review/there-was-and-there-was-not-by-meline-toumani.html Chris Abani TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_abani_on_humanity?language=en Anelise Chen on being a clam: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/04/13/clam-down/ You'll need Annelise Chen's essay, above, to do the writing prompt. And if you want to join the free reading at the Arab American National Museum on November 30th, register here: https://arabamericanmuseum.org/event/telling-our-2020-stories-a-live-reading-hosted-by-zahir-janmohamed/?event_date=2020-11-30 Happy reading! And as always, if you liked this show, if you found it useful, please do subscribe and leave me a review. We have over 15,000 listeners so far, and that's just on Spotify!

Welcome back to Cutting Chai Stories with Jayati Vora! Today I make good on something I've been talking about the last few episodes, which is to also give writing tips to entrepreneurs who are struggling with how to write copy for their business. I also share not one but TWO stories, both produced during a class on writing the personal essay. The first one is by Sara Afshaar, a former immigration attorney and current MFA candidate at the University of Michigan. Sara's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slice, McSweeney's, Sporklet, and has been installed in Boston City Hall. You can find her on Twitter: @afsharknado. The other story is by me, and both of us wrote about the uncertainty and anxiety and pressure we were all feeling the week after the U.S. presidential election. What makes the stories different is their use of "you"; both of us talked about ourselves in the second-person perspective. That was the prompt by the teacher of that class, Zahir Janmohamed (interview with Zahir coming soon on the show--stay tuned!), but what felt so good was how liberating it felt to dissociate yourself from the "you" on the page. I was not me, I was an anonymous you. Try it yourself and see! For entrepreneurs who are wondering how they can use this writing tip, I say, use it in your description of your ideal client--and be specific. It's how your target audience will know you're talking to them! If you're the kind of entrepreneur who is helping people who have the same problem you used to have, you can even use this technique to write about yourself, back when you were struggling with this problem, and capture even more effectively the challenge that your ideal client is facing right now. Meanwhile, if one of the things that you, dear listener, are struggling with is even getting started, if you're thinking, How can I write? I didn't go to school for this!, well, I have something for you. Here are my top 5 myths of good writing that need to be busted, and I'm giving it away just for you: https://mailchi.mp/c800156aa787/busted-5-myths-of-good-writing Finally, if you liked this episode, if you learned something from it, would you please subscribe and share it with a friend? If you tag me on IG @jayativora and @cuttingchaistories, I'll reshare your post.

When New York City became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, Brooklyn-based producer Beenish Ahmed struggled over whether to visit her parents in Ohio or stay put. Her parents — a landlord and hairdresser who immigrated from Pakistan in the ‘70s — begged her to come home. When Beenish finally decided to go in May, she recorded that journey, and the discoveries she made about her family’s relationship to America. This story is an episode we're sharing from A Better Life?, a new podcast by our friends at Feet in 2 Worlds that explores how America’s failed response to COVID-19 has reshaped immigrants’ lives and their relationship to the United States. Here's the team behind the story, and many other stories and conversations that you can hear on A Better Life? wherever you get podcasts: A Better Life? is hosted by Zahir Janmohamed. This episode was produced by Beenish Ahmed. It was edited by Mia Warren and John Rudolph. It was mixed by Jocelyn Gonzalez. Anna Dilena is our assistant producer. Alejandro Salazar Dyer is our development coordinator. Olivia Cunningham is our digital content manager. Kenny Leon is our intern. A Better Life?’s theme song was composed by Fareed Sajan. A Better Life? is produced by Feet in 2 Worlds, an organization that has supported the work of immigrant journalists since 2005.

Part 2 of "Dear Sugar Radio: The Writers Resist" at The Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon. They discuss how to counteract post-election cynicism with Zahir Janmohamed, writer and co-host of the podcast "Racist Sandwich," and they answer questions from the audience in rapid-fire fashion. This episode was originally released on January 27th, 2017.

It's often said that the Coronavirus does not discriminate. This is true, but how the virus affects communities varies depending on the resources a community has access to and what that community has historically faced. This is especially true in Detroit, where, according to CNBC, "African Americans make up about 14 percent of Michigan's population, but 33 percent of its coronavirus cases and 40 percent of all COVID-19 deaths." In this special episode, we welcome back co-founder and former co-host Zahir Janmohamed. He interviewed three fellow Michigan residents: Serena Maria Daniels, of Tostada Magazine, about food shortages created by COVID-19; Martina Guzmán, of Wayne State University, about how thousands of Detroit residents still don't have access to running water; and finally, Devita Davison, about how this pandemic is disproportionately affecting black-owned businesses and how Detroit, as it always does, will fight back.  Produced by Zahir Janmohamed, Stephanie Kuo and Juan Ramirez. Music by Brad Turner and Blue Dot Sessions.

Like a great deal of food media in America, the world of restaurant criticism has a long history of hiring white writers and closing its doors to people of color.  So it was exciting to see the San Francisco Chronicle break the mold last year when it hired Vietnamese-American food writer and co-host of The Racist Sandwich podcast, Soleil Ho, to be its lead restaurant critic. If that wasn't cool enough, Soleil also happens to be a fellow graduate of Grinnell College, the small progressive liberal arts college in Iowa that I attended a mere 40 years before she did. For all those reasons and more, I had to have Soleil on Special Sauce. At Grinnell, Soleil remembers "having to petition dining services to leave soy sauce out for breakfast, and they didn't understand why we needed it. And I had to make my case like, ‘No, soy sauce and eggs is a thing that people eat.’” Vocal as she was about food, though, she didn’t start out wanting to be a food writer. "When I entered college, I wanted to get into physics. I was really into quantum physics and was reading the History of Time and all of these other books,” she recalls. But cooking always had an undeniable allure. "Oh, I used to be so into Iron Chef when I was a kid. I loved the bravado of it, of peeling eels alive and all of that stuff. And that's what really attracted me to that.”  Learning to cook came later, initially from reading, watching TV, and dining out, and eventually from working in Portland as a line cook. It was during her line cook days that she started her groundbreaking podcast, The Racist Sandwich, with Zahir Janmohamed. "We wanted the show to be a reliable place within food media for people to find these stories that seems like they only ran on special occasions. You know, like you'd only read black stories in February during Black History Month, or you'd only read LGBTQ stories during June, Pride Month, those sorts of things. And we wanted to cover that stuff all the time and not feel like those stories were an exception or tokens or anything like that." We covered so many interesting topics during the first half of our conversation we never even got to her San Francisco Chronicle gig. For that, you'll have to wait until next week. In the meantime, you can check out her bylines for the newspaper right here. -- The full transcript for this episode can be found over here at Serious Eats:  https://www.seriouseats.com/2019/08/special-sauce-soleil-ho-on-her-journey-from-quantum-physics-to-racist-sandwich.html

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan share how they started the podcast, and offer podcasting tips with some help from friends who host their own shows. Then LitHub.com editor-in-chief Jonny Diamond speaks about the launch of LitHub Radio and his five-year anniversary as LitHub.com's content czar, as well as his own writing. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (make sure to include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Guests: ●     Jonny Diamond ●     Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed, David Naimon, Zahir Janmohamed, and Connor Stratton (via AWP)  Readings for the Episode: ●     The Power of Facebook: How Big is Too Big? Alexis C. Madrigal and Alexander Chee on the Darker Side Social Media, Fiction/Non/Fiction Episode 3, Season 1 ●     What Facebook Did to American Democracy by Alexis C. Madrigal ●     The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges ●     Exploring What an Interruption is in Conversation, by Katherine Hilton, Stanford University Doctoral Student ●     How Luminary's Messy Debut Ended Up Roiling the Podcast Industry, Vulture ●     Lumbersexuality, a Sport and a Pastime by Jonny Diamond, Longreads ●     Close Talking: A Poetry Podcast hosted by Connor Stratton and Jack Rossiter-Munley      ●     #GoodMuslimBadMuslim hosted by Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed and Zahra Noorbakhsh ●     Between the Covers hosted by David Naimon ●     The Racist Sandwich Podcast hosted by Soleil Ho and Zahir Janmohamed ●     The Maris Review hosted by Maris Kreizman ●     Otherppl hosted by Brad Listi ●     Slate's Political Gabfest hosted by Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz ●     So Many Damn Books hosted by Christopher Hermelin and Drew Broussard ●     538 Politics Podcast hosted by Nate Silver and the FiveThirtyEight team   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have big news. Our beloved hosts are starting amazing new chapters in their lives: Soleil is settling in as food critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, and Zahir is now in his first year of fiction writing at the University of Michigan. What does that mean for Racist Sandwich? For now, we'll be taking some time off to reflect and to plan for the future of the podcast. We (co-producers Stephanie and Juan) are working hard to figure out how we can continue to bring you all more conversations about food, race, class and gender. Thank you for being a listener, a supporter and a friend. Stay tuned! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram and like our Facebook page.

We have another special bonus episode to mark the start of Ramadan! Zahir travels to Dearborn, Mich., to sit down with Khaled Beydoun, a law professor and author of the newly released book, “American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear.” Khaled shares his insights about growing up in Dearborn, how being a Muslim in America has changed for him, and why the Lebanese restaurant Al Ameer in Dearborn is so seminal. Produced by Zahir Janmohamed and Stephanie Kuo. Music by Ehab Tawfik, Youssou N'Dour and Blue Dot Sessions.

Portland can be a stressful place to live for people of color. POC who have moved here are often met with a feeling of being unwelcomed that stems from our state's historically racist founding. Writer Zahir Janmohamed's recent piece in the Portland Mercury talks about his experience of living in Portland and why he decided to leave.

Racist Sandwich is a Portland, Oregon based podcast that tackles the intersection of food, race, class and gender. Started by journalist Zahir Janmohamed and chef Soleil Ho, both with no prior podcasting experience, the show has received recommendations from outlets like the CBC and The New York Times. Zahir joins us to talk about learning […] The post Podcast #101 – Racist Sandwich appeared first on Radio Survivor.

Racist Sandwich is a Portland, Oregon based podcast that tackles the intersection of food, race, class and gender. Started by journalist Zahir Janmohamed and chef Soleil Ho, both with no prior podcasting experience, the show has received recommendations from outlets like the CBC and The New York Times. Zahir joins us to talk about learning […] The post Podcast #101 – Racist Sandwich appeared first on Radio Survivor.

Racist Sandwich covers the recent white supremacist rally in Portland; in part one, we interview people of color at the counter-protest, as well as a Trump supporter and anti-fascist activists; in part two, we cover the fundraiser and tribute for the three heroes who stood up to white supremacy Produced by Zahir Janmohamed and Juan Ramirez. Music by AF the Naysayer and Blue Dot Sessions.

On April 29th, over 100 White people came to 82nd Ave in Portland, Oregon, chanting "USA", "Go back to where you come from", and other racist and anti-immigrant sentiments. A few days later , staff from APANO met  with Mayor Ted Wheeler, APANO joined with partners to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. A portion of 82nd Avenue sits within the Jade District, one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Oregon state. Where did this come from, and what does this say about our region? Zahir Janmohamed is the Policy Director for APANO, the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon. He is also the co-host of Racist Sandwich, a podcast about race and food. Scot Nakagawa has spent the last four decades as a pro-democracy activist, addressing issues of race and gender inequity, religious bigotry, and anti-LGBTQ oppression through community-based campaigns, cultural organizing, popular education, writing, and public policy advocacy. Scot has worked with numerous organizations and movements over the years, having served as Fight the Right Organizer and Field Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force; Education Co-Coordinator of the Highlander Research and Education Center; Associate Director of the Western Prison Project (Partnership for Safety and Justice); and Executive Director of the MRG Foundation of Oregon, and of the Social Justice Fund, NW. Find him on Facebook.

Author Elna Baker recounts childhood memories of workshopping material at her Mormon church’s “open mic” sessions, comedian and former SNL writer Brooks Wheelan teaches us how to fast talk our way out of illegal situations, Zahir Janmohamed breaks down the peanut butter and jelly controversy that led to the naming of his podcast The Racist Sandwich, and jazz virtuoso Thundercat treats us to a scale-flipping treasure from his forthcoming release, Drunk.

The Sugars return for Part 2 of "Dear Sugar Radio: The Writers Resist" at The Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon. They discuss how to counteract post-election cynicism with Zahir Janmohamed, writer and co-host of the podcast "Racist Sandwich," and they answer questions from the audience in rapid-fire fashion.

In this Chaitime, we talk to author and journalist Zahir Janmohamed. He went to India for the first time in 2002 to Gujarat, India and found himself in the midst of one of the worst incidents of communal violence. He was 25 years old then, and this experience changed his worldview forever and motivated him to work in politics, human rights and now as a journalist and author. Zahir Janmohamed is based in Portland, Oregon and Ahmedabad, India. He is currently writing a book about the largest ghetto of Muslims in India, an area known as Juhapura. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, where he was the inaugural co-recipient of the Anne Cox Chambers fellowship for long-form journalism, as well as from the Mesa Refuge, the Djerassi Resident Arts Program, the Norman Mailer Center, and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Guernica, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Scroll India, and many other publications.At the moment, he is a regular contributor to The Economic Times. Prior to working on his book, he spent a decade working in politics. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as the Advocacy Director for Amnesty International where he managed the organization’s lobbying, public outreach, and media work on the Middle East and North Africa. While at Amnesty International, he appeared on CNN, Fox News, BBC, NPR, and Al Jazeera. He has briefed senior officials at the White House and the State Department and authored numerous Congressional resolutions. In 2009, he was asked to testify before the US Congress about human rights abuses in the UAE. As a result, he was given an award by the UN for his commitment to human rights.

Click here to download this podcast in mp3 format.Today's podcast is the first part in a three part series on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. This podcast is given by Zahir Janmohamed and focuses on the legal issues surrounding Gaza.Zahir Janmohamed is Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Amnesty International USA. Mr. Janmohamed works with Amnesty International's membership to develop grassroots campaigns and manages the organization's media work on MENA issues. Prior to Amnesty International, Mr. Janmohamed worked for a State Department grantee called the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, which focuses on democratization efforts in countries with Muslim majorities.

Zahir Janmohamed of Amnesty International USA says the group is calling for an investigation of possible war crimes.