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 ★
May 24, 2022•19 min•Ep. 10
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 produc...
May 24, 2022•25 min•Ep. 11
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 Bar...
May 24, 2022•17 min•Ep. 12
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:/...
May 03, 2022•27 min•Ep. 9
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 Doua...
May 03, 2022•22 min•Ep. 8
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 hi...
May 03, 2022•24 min•Ep. 7
CW: Police Violence Abolitionists 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...
Jul 03, 2020•34 min•Ep. 6
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 one...
May 08, 2020•45 min•Ep. 5
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....
Mar 26, 2020•44 min•Ep. 4
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 hal...
Mar 12, 2020•39 min•Ep. 3
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...
Feb 27, 2020•45 min•Ep. 2
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 jour...
Feb 13, 2020•44 min•Ep. 1
