Religion says, “you’ve got questions, and I’ve got answers. Art says, “you’ve got answers, and I’ve got questions.” At the intersection of those two statements, we get the show Ramy from the comedian Ramy Youssef. His work brings to life a new

Fatima Bhutto — Pain, Power, and Politics: Making Sense of a Senseless Inheritance

Jun 29th, 2020 1h 14m

Read the interview on Submitter MagazineFatima Bhutto - Pain, Power, and Politics: Making Sense of a Senseless InheritanceIn this conversation, Fatima Bhutto reckons with ghosts of her past. Many of us know Fatima as the author of novels The Sh

The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting

Jun 7th, 2020 19m

"THE STRUGGLE OF MAN AGAINST POWER IS THE STRUGGLE OF MEMORY AGAINST FORGETTING." The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1979 Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian, born 1929. Islam and the Black American: a free course by Dr. Sherman Jackson Islam and

Travel Is Mutual Unveiling: A Conversation with Sacred Footsteps

Apr 16th, 2020 1h 1m

What We Talk About In This EpisodeHow this period of quarantine has affected our content/the way we work.Travel as a mutual ‘unveiling’ (in the Arabic language) and what this means.Guinea Bissau: conversion of tribes to Islam after an elder, Ma

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The Present: Catch Your Breath

Apr 1st, 2020 5m 24s

THE PRESENT is a series of reflections, stories, and moments captured during the global pandemic of the novel Coronavirus. Haider Syed is a hip hop artist and poet from Toronto, Canada that goes by the name of Dialectic. Follow him on twitter a

The Discipline of Tripping Up: Bassam Tariq

Mar 28th, 2020 1h 7m

This week we breech the divides of social distancing and isolation by reaching out to Bassam Tariq, a Pakistani-American filmmaker whose latest project Mogul Mowgli, starring Riz Ahmed, recently premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival. In this

This Wasn't The Plan

Mar 21st, 2020 8m 14s

We open the second season of American Submitter behind the closed doors of our studio in the Bay Area, which has now been ordered to 'shelter in place'. The past few weeks our feeds have been flooded with endless diagrams, figures, and unknowns

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Season 2: The Muslim Community

Mar 6th, 2020 3m 9s

Season 2 of American Submitter is coming March 20th. Stories of community past, present, and future in Muslim America.

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Malcolm In The Spring

Mar 2nd, 2020 6m 23s

For American Muslims, Malcolm X is a saint and martyr and February is the month where I and other muslims often find ourselves reflecting on Malcolm’s last days. As we prepare to launch Season 2, we try to bring the spirit of Malcolm with us.Fe

Mustafa Briggs: These Are Just Tools To Reach God

Oct 4th, 2019 1h 10m

It’s easy to get lost in the names, numbers, and contexts that inform who we are. In this podcast, we hear how Mustafa Briggs conceives identity as something that both illuminates and conceals. Piecing together aspects of identity and experienc

Creatively Righteous, Haroon Sellars

Jul 27th, 2019 1h 1m

Free-styling prayer, intentionality in craft, and creativity in devotion to God—these are a few pearls you'll find in this conversation with my mentor and dear friend, Brother Haroon Sellars. Though not a native to the Bay area, you could say h

Azhar Usman: We're Not Serious

Jul 20th, 2019 1h 32m

This is a conversation with my friend Azhar Usman, a man I call the most serious man in comedy. Azhar asked me to watch Ramy Youssef’s show ‘Ramy’ on Hulu, and when I begrudgingly did, I was floored. This happened again with Aziz Ansari’s comed

Time To Widen And Deepen Your Circles

Jun 29th, 2019 33m 57s

“You plan And God laughs.” That’s something I heard yesterday from a young lady who allowed my Studio team to use a room at her POC owned co-working space in Oakland. I was explaining to her that I was supposed to have an episode out by now, bu

Hidden Treasures (They Want To Be Known)

Jun 22nd, 2019 37m 15s

This week’s episode is a look at the hidden treasure of children, and trying to see the world from their eyes.Unless we are parents ourselves, we rarely hear the voices of children, let alone spend the day with them. This is a look inside the c

Adam (There Is No Such Thing As A Divine Accident)

Jun 14th, 2019 1h 11m

This week we meet Adam, and we learn what it means to be a spiritual brother to someone, and listen to the journey of two friends on the path. Later they meet up with a teacher of theirs, Shaykh Adeyinke Mendes, before Imran has to rush to the

Learning From Experience: Ubaydullah Evans

Jun 7th, 2019 40m 17s

AMERICAN SUBMITTER returns after a three year hiatus with a conversation with Ubaydallah Evans, an old friend and recent commencement speaker. We talk about the things that have animated our friendship from the beginning, discussing what beauty

The Key to Knowledge

Jan 17th, 2016 26m

The first episode of American Submitter, released January 2016.The Wikipedia entry of Menlo Park, California literally begins with the words “Menlo Park is an affluent suburb”. Apparently 21% of Menlo Park residents work at Facebook. In any cas

Trailer: This Is American Submitter

Jan 16th, 2016 4m 33s

On this first ever episode of American Submitter, host Imran Ali Malik explains what the show is about.Please Subscribe/Rate on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6Y97tX

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