Ep.3 Exiting The Vampire Castle

We give our review of Dune 2, then we go on to discuss our Ramadan goals. We debut our new segment FATWA FRENZY! Lastly, we update on the investigative reporting by The Intercept on the NYT's propagandistic piece titled 'Screams Without Words."

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Bunch of items at the top. We briefly go through some Gaza news, including the horrific self-immolation that happened in DC earlier today. Yasmine then discusses the legacy of Malcolm X.

Yasmine does a quick roundup of Palestine media, then we have a brief, unplanned discussion about despair.

Just the two of us again. Catching up on almost a month of Israel's war crimes and propaganda efforts.

We were thrilled to talk to author Abdul Rahman Latif about his newly published book 'Vultures In The House of Silence,' which combines elements of Islamic history and traditional story telling into a new and fun dark fantasy set at the end of times.

In addition to being a published author, Abdul Rahman Latif is the Muslim chaplain at Dartmouth College and a PhD candidate at Columbia University. You can find his new book on Amazon, Audible, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books.

Friend and lawyer, Zainab, joins us for broad conversation about Muslim marriage in a legal context. We focused mostly on where things might break down, and Zainab gives a really comprehensive review of some of the things that could go awry.

This is a good listen for anyone, especially young Muslims, who is thinking of getting married. I think hearing Zainab will give you some crucial things to consider.

The very end of the recording cuts off abrubtly. I'm not gonna say who did, or whose fault it is that they stopped recording early, but just know that if you point your finger at me, there are three more fingers pointing back at you.

We talk about the crucial New York Times piece about the brave young women who are shattering glass ceilings in the IDF. Really inspirational stuff. Almost makes you forget that in the background of it all is a horrific genocide being metted out by these girl-bosses.

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Our friend Mehran joins for a conversation about Bangladesh's fight for indepence from Pakistan. We thought this was an important topic to cover for its own sake, but also to give us a better understanding of genocide and imperialism in Palestine. This ended up being a broad conversation, and Mehran did a fantastic job weaving between the main history we covered and present day Palestine. 

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Toward the end of the episode you will hear Ahmed share a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, and the outro music is a composition also by Tagore.

Mehran is a mental health advocate who has a personal fascination with family histories and how humans pass personalities and belief systems from generation to generation.  You can check out his blog, The Semicolon Series, here.

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Translated lyrics for the outro:

The cloud says, "I am to go now;"  
Darkness says "Goodbye." 
The sea says, "On the shore, - I am no more." 
Anguish says, "I shall remain quiet as a footprint." 
I say, "I blend away and have desire no more." 
The world says, "For you, there are welcome garlands." 
The sky says, "Light a million lamps for you."  
Love says, "I have been wide awake for ages for you." 
Death says, "I am rowing the boat of life for you."

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