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Ramadan Mubarak, With Ayman Mohyeldin May 25, 2018

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In the second week of our Ramadan spotlight series, we talk with Ayman Mohyeldin, anchor and host at MSNBC. Ayman has spent years as a foreign correspondent and in front of a national audience, so Ahmed asks him about objectivity in media, covering the Trump administration, and some of the most moving moments he's had observing Ramadan abroad. Plus: a quick fake news quiz! Plus: See Something Say Something is hosting Ramadan Lunch Break, a weekly live show every Wednesday at noon EST on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Follow Ayman @AymanM and watch him on MSNBC weekdays for Morning Joe First Look and Sundays for The Breakdown. Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email us at saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.comSnooze these notifications for: an hour, eight hours, a day, three days, or the next week. Or, turn email notifications off. For more detailed preferences, see your account page. Made by Slack Technologies, Inc • Our Blog 500 Howard Street • San Francisco, CA • 94105 • United States | Click here to Reply or ForwardUsing 18.17 GBManage Program PoliciesPowered by GoogleLast account activity: 1 hour agoDetails | | Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ramadan Mubarak, With Ibtihaj Muhammad! May 18, 2018

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RAMADAN MUBARAK!!! We're so excited to kick off our annual, award-winning Ramadan series by speaking with Olympic bronze medalist, sabre fencer and future Barbie doll (!) Ibtihaj Muhammad. We talk to her about her conviction to fast while training, navigating white spaces as a black hijabi woman and her family's modest, ethical fashion line, Louella. Plus: See Something Say Something is hosting Ramadan Lunch Break, a weekly live show every Wednesday at noon EST on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Tune in next week! And find all of the BuzzFeed Ramadan content at buzzfeed.com/ramadan. Follow Ibtihaj @IbtihajMuhammad. Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email us at saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ramadan Breath May 11, 2018

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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 saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pray For Zayn and Gigi May 04, 2018

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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 saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salt Fat Acid Heat Apr 27, 2018

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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 saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 52: Clapback But Make It Fashion Apr 20, 2018

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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 saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 51: Everything Is Horrible It's Getting Worse And We're All Accepting It Apr 13, 2018

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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 saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 50: Stop Reading Bad Rumi Translations At Your Weddings Apr 06, 2018

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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 saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 49: The White Terrorist Double Standard Mar 30, 2018

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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 saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 48: A Very Afghan New Year Mar 23, 2018

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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 saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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