https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes daily 0.75 2023-02-14 https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-15-malaka-gharib monthly 0.5 2023-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/cb32c71f-28b2-47d6-aa5c-23519722f7a1/Malaka+Gharib+.jpg Season One - Episode 15: Malaka Gharib - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/d6c13865-0f33-4f4b-8e06-7e2cad73063f/i+was.jpeg Season One - Episode 15: Malaka Gharib On the final episode of the first season of the Seen Jeem podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking with journalist, cartoonist and author Malaka Gharib about her award-winning graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream, which explores themes related to the immigrant experience. Listen to this episode to learn more about how Malaka's identity as a Filipino-Egyptian-American person inspired her book! https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-14-rajia-hassib monthly 0.5 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/5c8bbf76-f4ff-4343-8402-43349ae29f3b/pure+heart.jpg Season One - Episode 14: Rajia Hassib Rajia Hassib discusses her second novel A Pure Heart. She explains her process of dramatizing the Arab Spring, contemporary Egyptian society, sisterhood, religion and secularism, the pursuit of purity, immigration, the importance of historical artifacts, and finding a sense of home in a foreign place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/ee6d35b0-f10a-411e-ad40-de9f7fd5db8d/rajia+hassib.jpeg Season One - Episode 14: Rajia Hassib - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-13-khaled-mattawa monthly 0.5 2022-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/a05e9726-6e06-4d32-b002-02c441d13580/fugitive+atlas.jpeg Season One - Episode 13: Khaled Mattawa - In this episode Khaled Mattawa talks to Matthew Stiffler about his newest collection of poetry, Fugitive Atlas (2020), his history as a leading figure in the development of Arab American literature, and his arts work in Libya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/9a6eb06d-2244-41f7-92c0-d0bde147f650/khaled.jpeg Season One - Episode 13: Khaled Mattawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-12-mohja-kahf monthly 0.5 2022-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/27e4269a-9e82-4a39-99ff-e535f9941f6f/my+lover.jpeg Season One - Episode 12: Mohja Kahf - Mohja Kahf discusses two of her books of poetry with Sally Howell. Hagar Poems was released in 2016 and My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit came out in 2020. She also reads several poems for us: “More than One Way to Break a Fast,” “Ramadan Godsend,” and “Wet Chastity.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/fd571a9a-423f-4eb9-b9fb-0143a4138d29/9097_Mohja_Kahf-byWhitPruitt%2CUARelations.jpg Season One - Episode 12: Mohja Kahf - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-11-susan-muaddi-darraj monthly 0.5 2022-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/7cf3927e-8d55-4ff5-add8-1dfaabe48e9e/susan+muaddi+darraj.jpeg Season One - Episode 11: Susan Muaddi Darraj - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/35ad7117-5e91-46a5-8842-2dd39ff4f51d/farah+rocks.jpeg Season One - Episode 11: Susan Muaddi Darraj In today's episode, Susan Muaddi Darraj discusses her chapter book series Farah Rocks Fifth Grade, which is the first chapter book series to feature Arab American characters. She describes the process of writing for children, the representation of people of color in children’s literature, challenging the publishing industry’s stereotypes of Arab Americans, and dramatizing an Arab American identity and community, among other topics. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-10-massoud-hayoun monthly 0.5 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/7dc094c4-a00b-4d63-9245-de649edd946b/IMG_6321.jpeg Season One - Episode 10: Massoud Hayoun - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/96684fe6-8c23-42c8-b868-24570daf5212/when+we+were+arabs.jpeg Season One - Episode 10: Massoud Hayoun In this episode of the Seen Jeem podcast, Arab American National Museum (AANM) Director Diana Abouali chats with award-winning author Massoud Hayoun about his book, When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten History. In this decolonial memoir, Massoud explores his grandparent's remarkable story as Jewish Arabs whose experiences were shaped by colonial ambitions in North Africa. Listen to this episode to hear from Massoud about his investigation of regional politics and how it helped him uncover his incredible family history. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-09-zaina-arafat monthly 0.5 2022-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/312c9e74-05b5-4345-bf8d-c179e287bfd2/you+exist.jpeg Season One - Episode 09: Zaina Arafat - Zaina talks with Matthew Jaber Stiffler about her writing process and growing up as one of the only Arab Americans in her community. She reads from, and discusses, her 2020 debut novel You Exist Too Much. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/3c9c6feb-cc3a-42dc-a4f9-d63c6c2e8e59/zaina.jpg Season One - Episode 09: Zaina Arafat - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-08-alise-alousi monthly 0.5 2022-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/23281510-cf35-4a4f-8510-6e77a74ba13f/Poetry+Forthcoming+in+Fall+2022.jpg Season One - Episode 08: Alise Alousi - In this episode, Alise Alousi discusses her poetry and her work for the Detroit-based literary arts organization InsideOut with Sally Howell. She also reads several of her poems for us, “Capture the Flag,” “The Man Who Painted My Father's Eye,” “Imitation Spring - a Ghazal,” and “What Every Driver Must Know.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/5cd7fd81-3fd8-427e-8c1c-ec2bfdc684a4/Alise32.JPG Season One - Episode 08: Alise Alousi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-07-naomi-shihab-nye monthly 0.5 2022-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/0538e396-93d3-4085-9fe2-19b2a6774b4b/everything+comes+next.jpeg Season One - Episode 07: Naomi Shihab Nye - In this episode, acclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye discusses her collection of poems, The Tiny Journalist (2019), with Diana Abouali, director of the Arab American National Museum. The “tiny journalist” refers to Janna Jihad Ayyad, the Palestinian citizen journalist who has been documenting and reporting Israel’s colonization of her homeland since she was a young girl. Recorded a few weeks after the 2021 Israel attacks on Gaza ceased, Shihab Nye reflects on her identity as a Palestinian-American as well as the resilience of Palestinians in the face of ongoing adversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/8306b844-3fa0-45c1-a52b-43ed2794b386/Current+photo+Naomi+Shihab+Nye+copy.jpg Season One - Episode 07: Naomi Shihab Nye - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-06-sahar-mustafah monthly 0.5 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/191717d4-13d7-4941-9784-2393668abc7c/Sahar-Mustafah_lagre.jpeg Season One - Episode 06: Sahar Mustafah - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/e23b25a9-cd94-4175-b36f-41d54f205ebc/BOYF+Cover.jpg Season One - Episode 06: Sahar Mustafah Sahar Mustafah discusses her debut and award-winning novel The Beauty of Your Face. Mustafa goes into detail about the writing of her book, which includes employing an episodic narrativestructure and dramatizing the horror of a school shooting at an Islamic school for girls located in the Chicago suburbs. She talks about the representation of Arab American and Muslim American women in her fiction, and how her representations challenge the publishing industry’s stereotypes of such women. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-05-diana-abujaber monthly 0.5 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/02df1061-d25f-4d17-80c1-c95642f3ebf0/silver.jpeg Season One - Episode 05: Diana Abu-Jaber - Author and professor Diana Abu-Jaber sits down with Matt Stiffler to chat about her new young adult fantasy novel, Silverworld (2020). She shares with us her trajectory as a writer who often focuses on food and identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/9f7f7206-ee7f-455e-999c-72f53a61cfe3/diana.jpg Season One - Episode 05: Diana Abu-Jaber - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-04-hayan-charara monthly 0.5 2021-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1635788779198-WNNXJNDEUXRK4647BLQU/haay.jpeg Season One - Episode 04: Hayan Charara Hayan Charara joins us today on the Seen Jeem podcast to discuss his latest book of poetry, These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit, a "lushly transcendental and companionable" work according to Diane Seuss. Charara shares this new work with host Sally Howell and they also discuss the many ways in which Detroit and Dearborn are represented in his poetry as windows onto memory, family, community, and empathy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/4f58109d-82c4-47c5-81ec-8423c43586ac/hayan.jpeg Season One - Episode 04: Hayan Charara - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-03-randa-jarrar monthly 0.5 2021-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1635787864333-NYOY5C4KXBD2C5PKSEK0/ove.jpeg Season One - Episode 03: Randa Jarrar - In this episode, we catch up with award-winning author Randa Jarrar! She joins us for the third episode of the Seen Jeem podcast to discuss her unapologetically defiant book, Love is an Ex-Country, (2021), with the Arab American National Museum's Research and Content Manager Matthew Jaber Stiffler. Randa also talks about finding community as an Arab American writer and even shares some details of her budding film career. Listen Now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1545917a-0a49-4a75-8fb4-5dcf2f8d1254/randa.jpeg Season One - Episode 03: Randa Jarrar - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-02-safia-elhillo monthly 0.5 2021-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1635785994835-AYLYP40S1PA74PTZU04K/home.jpeg Season One - Episode 02: Safia Elhillo - In this episode, Sally Howell interviews author Safia Elhillo about her latest book, Home is Not a Country. The novel in verse explores themes of diasporic belonging through the experiences of the main character, 15-year-old Nima. Elhillo reads several excerpts from the book—“America,” “Nostalgia Monster,” “Haytham,” and “Baba.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/eb5c21b8-d26d-4c26-b639-5353dc9ce534/safia+photo.jpeg Season One - Episode 02: Safia Elhillo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes/episode-01-dunya-mikhail monthly 0.5 2021-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1635787168760-DLJLUJNMRCN3VH2Z4TAY/dunya.jpeg Season One - Episode 01: Dunya Mikhail - Joining us for our first episode is Dunya Mikhail. Dunya discusses her latest collection of poetry In Her Feminine Sign, touching on the art of translation, the use of testimonials and fables in verse, the meaning of home, the plight of Iraqi women in times of political instability and violence, war trauma, and the burden of memories. She describes the experience of returning to Iraq after years of exile to conduct research for her creative nonfiction book The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq. Listen Now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1635359905545-U71FS4Z4P9PEXHXJFJE1/DunyaMikhail.jpeg Season One - Episode 01: Dunya Mikhail - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam daily 0.75 2023-01-25 https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam/diana monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/852e359e-998b-4930-96d5-7ff1dd73a465/diana2.jpg SJ Team - Diana Abouali Director, Arab American National Museum https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam/ghassan monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/3070d376-1a38-47cf-9769-6eea85f91b5b/SeenJeemNov8-21%2834%29.jpg SJ Team - Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine Assistant Professor of English Literature, UM-D https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam/sally monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/80dfd89b-e156-4679-ba55-22e5cccdd35d/SeenJeemNov10-21%2851%29.jpg SJ Team - Sally Howell Director, Center for Arab American Studies Associate Professor of History, UM-Dearborn https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam/matt monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/c3437cd0-29cc-4618-9d16-d3d38d3c3a18/38006939835_921bdb9d60_k+%282%29.jpg SJ Team - Matthew Stiffler Research & Content Manager, Arab American National Museum https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam/asma monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/61ca18d3-5b19-4bb3-86bb-bab28ff66e98/bio_pic.jpeg SJ Team - Asma Baban Research Assistant, Center for Arab American Studies Project Manager, Halal Metropolis https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam/moejay monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/e407f8b7-aa51-4ce4-83a8-0fb0905c9419/SeenJeemNov8-21%2811%29.jpg SJ Team - Mohamad Jaafar Producer & Editor, Seen Jeem Podcast https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam/eric monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1635785034624-OQOLGMQRPMMRBF1AL0RA/IMG_2653.jpg SJ Team - Eric Kiska Editing Consultant https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam/mariam monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/8c41cbff-2235-4081-8354-9933f16d6c7f/IMG_3267+5.JPG SJ Team - Mariam Rizk Project Manager https://seenjeempodcast.org/sjteam/category/Podcast+Host monthly 0.5 https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team daily 0.75 2023-02-13 https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team/ghassan monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/3070d376-1a38-47cf-9769-6eea85f91b5b/SeenJeemNov8-21%2834%29.jpg SJ Team - Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine Assistant Professor of English Literature, UM-D https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team/sally monthly 0.5 2023-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/80dfd89b-e156-4679-ba55-22e5cccdd35d/SeenJeemNov10-21%2851%29.jpg SJ Team - Sally Howell Associate Professor of History, UM-Dearborn https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team/matt monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/c3437cd0-29cc-4618-9d16-d3d38d3c3a18/38006939835_921bdb9d60_k+%282%29.jpg SJ Team - Matthew Stiffler Research & Content Manager, Arab American National Museum https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team/pauline monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/16f65bf1-ef6b-4bff-b497-7ac2c89c80ed/IMG_5630.jpeg SJ Team - Pauline Homsi Vinson Interim Director, Center for Arab American Studies Visiting Assistant Professor, UM-D https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team/asma monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/61ca18d3-5b19-4bb3-86bb-bab28ff66e98/bio_pic.jpeg SJ Team - Asma Baban Research Assistant, Center for Arab American Studies Project Manager, Halal Metropolis https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team/moejay monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/e407f8b7-aa51-4ce4-83a8-0fb0905c9419/SeenJeemNov8-21%2811%29.jpg SJ Team - Mohamad Jaafar Producer & Editor, Seen Jeem Podcast https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes daily 0.75 2023-04-25 https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/eli monthly 0.5 2023-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/33daff19-d000-46e2-9035-aa836a056682/goodarabs.jpg Season Two - Episode 11: Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch In this episode, Pauline Homsi Vinson interviews poet Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch about their award-winning poetry collection, The Good Arabs. El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs explores the many simultaneous realities present within their Arab, Lebanese community such as anti-Black sentiments and the embracing of capitalism while also being hospitable and generous. The Good Arabs examines race and class, gender and sexuality, and the experience of language all within the Lebanese diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1674681154313-5VOCINA3CEYRQEP0HUSJ/SFG_EliTareqAuthorPhoto_Oct22.jpg Season Two - Episode 11: Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/reda monthly 0.5 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/6c0f90cc-9379-422f-8ecb-64b285e2e9ed/Reda+Taleb-Headshot+%281%29.jpg Season Two - Episode 10: Reda Taleb - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/6da82f30-b0bf-4fc2-979e-aed96d8bc192/noura.jpg Season Two - Episode 10: Reda Taleb In this episode, Pauline Homsi Vinson interviews Reda Taleb about her children's book, Noura's Extraordinary Power. The book center's on 8 year old Noura as she discovers her "missing" father is actually incarcerated. Loosely based on her own family experience, Taleb aims to explain and unpack incarceration to youth of all ages. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/omar monthly 0.5 2023-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/d3c59b8b-30d5-4397-86fb-b80cd81e6d31/what+strange+paradise.jpeg Season Two - Episode 9: Omar El Akkad In this episode, Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine interviews award-winning journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad about his second novel, What Strange Paradise. The novel follows 9 year old Amir and 15 year old Vänna as they both seek safety. El Akkad speaks on the universal inclination towards friendship, the underlying connection to Peter Pan, and the "dueling fantasies" of not what the world is, but what he believes it to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/af111bbd-1ed9-48da-a1e3-c7ca20cfb00e/El+Akkad+%281%29.JPG Season Two - Episode 9: Omar El Akkad - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/wessam monthly 0.5 2023-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/9c73c06b-5ad4-4a07-9c85-888916173193/wessam.jpeg Season Two - Episode 8: Wessam Elmeligi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/3dd2e19f-8710-4c02-a254-9688c1fa39a3/jamila.jpeg Season Two - Episode 8: Wessam Elmeligi In this episode, Pauline Homsi Vinson interviews professor and author Wessam Elmeligi about his graphic novels Y and Y and Jamila. Written during the Arab Spring, Y and Y contrasts the innocence of childhood with the brutality of war. Jamila follows the journey of one Egyptian woman navigating familial and cultural expectations, defying euro-centric stereotypes, and ultimately recognizing the truth of her name. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/hajjar monthly 0.5 2023-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1677695503885-EGCABN2RLNH3205PL46W/Copy+of+Baban+Headshot.jpg Season Two - Episode 7: Hajjar Baban - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/3ac53afb-bf5d-4704-91ab-b3fa5d462f0f/hb+book.jpg Season Two - Episode 7: Hajjar Baban Today's episode was originally published on the Halal Metropolis Podcast. Sally Howell interviews award-winning poet Hajjar Baban about her chapbooks Relative to Blood and What I Know of the Mountains. Baban discusses how she got her start in poetry and the themes she explores within her writing: identity, religion, language, displacement, and place. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/safia monthly 0.5 2023-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/eb5c21b8-d26d-4c26-b639-5353dc9ce534/safia+photo.jpeg Season Two - Episode 6: Safia Elhillo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/e6e761cf-f11c-4250-b7c0-16c3a480f9de/home+is+not+a+country.jpeg Season Two - Episode 6: Safia Elhillo In this episode, Matthew Jaber Stiffler interviews award-winning poet Safia Elhillo. Elhillo discusses her novel in verse, Home Is Not a Country, and her second book of poetry, Girls That Never Die. Elhillo speaks about the autobiographical nature of her work, the audience she writes for, the practice of writing poetry, and the direction her future books might take. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/heather monthly 0.5 2023-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/d172d324-786a-4fa1-ac3f-182238c5509c/_Headshot+Heather+Raffo+by+Satya+Tisman.jpg Season Two - Episode 5: Heather Raffo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/0e44bef9-e32c-49ff-a605-79dc58ba4e19/Noura+%281%29.jpg Season Two - Episode 5: Heather Raffo In this episode, Pauline Homsi Vinson interviews Heather Raffo. Raffo is an award winning Iraqi-American playwright and performer. She discusses her various works such as 9 Parts of Desire, Fallujah: The First Opera about the Iraq War, and Noura. Raffo discusses the impact of her work on American audiences, such as the portrayal of Iraqi women as more than victims in 9 Parts, the non-linear and open-ended nature of Noura and Fallujah, and "ultimately, following the rhythm" of her own heart. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/eman monthly 0.5 2023-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/325f02e2-d7fd-41a3-b3b8-a9b0bdebb06c/quotah_headshot+%281%29.jpg Season Two - Episode 4: Eman Quotah - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/e007ad0f-9f80-435d-8300-b89f9c630aee/bride+of+the+sea.jpeg Season Two - Episode 4: Eman Quotah In this episode, Pauline Homsi Vinson interviews Eman Quotah about her novel, Bride of the Sea. Bride of the Sea follows the lives of a mother and her daughter, who disappear after the collapse of her marriage, and the father who spends years searching for them from another country. Quotah's debut novel explores loss, religion, family, and the lasting effects of decisions made out of despair. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/kamelya monthly 0.5 2023-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/f8b59fd7-e283-4092-b906-c7a933703c0f/bookwithahole_frontcover+%281%29.jpeg Season Two - Episode 3: Kamelya Omaya Youssef Today's episode was originally published on the Halal Metropolis Podcast. Sally Howell interviews poet Kamelya Omaya Youssef about her book, A Book with a hole in it, composed of Youssef's journal entries from a four month period in 2019. A book with a hole in it is "an experiment" and a lyrical processing of various traumas Youssef experiences and witnesses in her life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/5eaca974-9539-4848-ae44-97e1d37e1929/kamelya-headshot+%281%29.jpg Season Two - Episode 3: Kamelya Omaya Youssef - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/rabih monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/af974a37-8a70-4b85-b84b-fc5dea8c55bd/WrongEndoftheTelescope-Book+Pic.jpeg Season Two - Episode 2: Rabih Alameddine On today’s episode, Pauline Homsi Vinson speaks with Rabih Alameddine, an award-winning Lebanese-American painter and writer. They discuss Rabih's book, The Wrong End of the Telescope. This powerful book showcases the moving story of a trans Arab American woman doctor's work with Syrian refugees on the island of Lesbos, and her connection with a refugee mother who hid her cancer diagnosis from her recently displaced family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/60c17a5d-2112-4c1a-ab9a-cd9ac8cb15da/Rabih_author+photo_Oliver+Wasow+Marsha+Williams+Lights+blue+%281%29.jpg Season Two - Episode 2: Rabih Alameddine - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/ghassan monthly 0.5 2023-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1676333909848-8A5FA2NU5W53LVQVCPW4/Zeineddine-Ghassan-Aug22%2844%29a-color+%281%29+%281%29.jpg Season Two - Episode 1: Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/6d5d0ea4-b4ea-4a04-8359-7c286da86030/hb.jpeg Season Two - Episode 1: Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine In this episode, Pauline Homsi Vinson interviews Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine. Abou-Zeineddine is co-editor of the creative non-fiction anthology Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundry and Belonging. The anthology features well established and first time Arab American writers. Hadha Baladuna, Arabic for “this is our country,” explores the diverse and distinct experiences of Arab Americans in Dearborn, MI, the city with the highest concentration of Arabs in the U.S. https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team-1 daily 0.75 2024-07-02 https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team-1/sally-howell-k4cf9 monthly 0.5 2024-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/0712b2b2-a98e-4f93-bcf0-1fdcecb65c63/SeenJeemNov10-21%2851%29.jpg SJ Team - Dr. Sally Howell Associate Professor of History, UM-Dearborn https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team-1/wessam-elmeligi-eb828 monthly 0.5 2024-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/77fffb63-64c0-4ebb-a58d-f3a93f251079/wessam_elmeligi_office_photo_2018_1.jpg SJ Team - Dr. Wessam Elmeleigi Director, Center for Arab American Studies Associate Professor of Arabic Studies, UM-Dearborn https://seenjeempodcast.org/sj-team-1/moejay-exk4m monthly 0.5 2024-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/6d01b004-2865-403b-b070-18f873b676bf/CAAP_Team_Photos_02.jpg SJ Team - Mohamad Jaafar Media Assistant, Center for Arab American Studies https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1 daily 0.75 2024-11-14 https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/george-abraham monthly 0.5 2024-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/750f3bd6-aea8-4cfd-b3c5-c03dd3a38bce/George+Abraham_Author_pic2.png Season Three - Episode 13: George Abraham - George Abraham George Abraham (they/he/هو) is a Palestinian American poet. Their debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the executive editor of Mizna, and co-editor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket Books, 2025). They are currently a Litowitz MFA+MA candidate at Northwestern University, and will be joining Amherst College’s English faculty as a Writer-in-Residence this fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/a83d75d4-1d1b-42fb-8c64-9833d4222970/Screenshot+2024-10-30+at+4.38.23%E2%80%AFPM.png Season Three - Episode 13: George Abraham This week’s guest is George Abraham https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/denmo-ibrahim monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/9c386ff9-0c6d-4cd4-becb-1558f3ed35c4/Screenshot+2024-08-09+at+11.22.17%E2%80%AFAM.png Season Three - Episode 12: Denmo Ibrahim This week’s guest is Denmo Ibrahim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/eba238ee-c2c3-4b4c-90aa-b95ae4d9fa75/Denmo+image76.jpg Season Three - Episode 12: Denmo Ibrahim - Denmo Ibrahim Denmo Ibrahim is an American playwright and actor of Egyptian descent. Her work has been produced and developed by Round House Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Noor Theatre, The Civilians R&D Series, Amphibian Stage, Alter Theatre, Shotgun Players, Golden Thread and Crowded Fire. Regional acting credits include Berkeley Repertory, The Old Globe, Seattle Repertory, American Conservatory of Theatre and CalShakes. Denmo is a two-time winner of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award and Theatre Bay Area Award and a finalist for SPACE at Ryder Farm, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Rainin Fellowship and Sundance Theatre Lab. Her children’s book Zaynab’s Night of Destiny (zaynabbook.com) toured 25 public schools in Kentucky and was supported by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts. Denmo holds an MFA in Lecoq-based Actor Created Physical Theater (Naropa University) and a BFA in Acting (Boston University). denmoibrahim.com https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/dave-acosta monthly 0.5 2024-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/dd8552a5-667d-4f1b-8553-1e687e433e41/84c500d2-e4e7-4a8a-bc91-60f2ee1f6188_680x997.jpg Season Three - Episode 11: Dave Acosta This week’s guest is Dave Acosta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/cbca0b00-b2d0-497f-a06f-76cf278054b3/Dave+Acosta.jpg Season Three - Episode 11: Dave Acosta - Dave Acosta Dave Acosta is a Michigan-based comic book and sequential art artist. He is an alum of the the University of Michigan-Dearborn, studying English literature, which he says influenced his artistic ability to visualize characters in comics. Known for science fiction, horror, and fantasy, Acosta's works such as Elvira, Terrowars, and recently, Dragon, display a style that is recognized by attention to detail, interest in the human figure and facial expressions. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/saladin-ahmed monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/0e1139a5-50c1-4e66-94ae-9d4b5423eaa8/GUEST_a6d86a8f-b88e-4fe3-a7cc-bba8b5d284b5.jpeg Season Three - Episode 10: Saladin Ahmed This week’s guest is Saladin Ahmed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/ff0d5598-e04a-4206-b8c0-e3f2643da0e1/Saladin+Ahmed.jpeg Season Three - Episode 10: Saladin Ahmed - Saladin Ahmed Saladin Ahmed is a renowned comic book writer and novelist. A Dearborn born and raised and an alumn of the University of Michigan, he is from an Arab-American family that contributed significantly to the Arab American community. Known for his science fiction and fantasy narratives, his writing touches upon different genres, from prose fiction in his novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon, which was nominated for the Hugo Award and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, to comic books for mainstream publishers such as Marvel, DC, and Image, on series such as Miles Morales: Spiderman, to his own comic book projects, the series, Terrorwar, with artist Dave Acosta and recently, also with Acosta, a graphic novel, Dragon. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/moussa-el-moussa monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1e2a2dea-9259-4657-85f4-02bf7d832977/Screenshot+2024-06-14+at+2.52.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Season Three - Episode 9: Moussa El Moussa This week’s guest is Moussa El Moussa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/46238edc-577c-47fe-be8a-78394ec6c5b9/MoussaHeadshot+copy+%281%29_1.jpg Season Three - Episode 9: Moussa El Moussa - Moussa El Moussa Moussa El Moussa is an Arab-American independent filmmaker based in the Metro Detroit area. He has written, produced, directed, filmed, and edited an array of productions. By utilizing art as a form of communication, El Moussa challenges inherited ideas with an aim for imaginative exploration, vigilant accountability, and unifying acceptance. El Moussa has worked with unique individuals, collaborative groups, and prominent organizations to bridge social, political, cultural, generational, and ideological gaps. His work has been featured by Button Poetry, PLAYGROUND DETROIT, and Kresge Arts in Detroit. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/hadil-ghoneim monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/c76f5295-3e4f-48b9-af9e-1f4d50d1d3f2/Hadil+Ghoneim.JPG Season Three - Episode 8: Hadil Ghoneim - Hadil Ghoneim Hadil Ghoneim writes in Arabic and English. Her nonfiction essays and columns have appeared in Zone 3, Michigan Quarterly Review Online, Arab Lit Quarterly, Mada Masr, Shorouk, Al-Ahram and other print and online publications. She contributed to Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction (2020) with her essay, “Baba and the Pontiac”. Hadil has written many fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. Her book Layali Shahrzizi (The Nights of Shahrzizi) won the 2020 Etisalat Book of the Year award for Arabic Children’s Literature. Sisters Hana and Sheba was a finalist for best picture book for the same award in 2022 and was translated into Persian in 2024. Those Are Your Lenses, Abla was shortlisted for best storywriting in 2020 from the Children’s Books Publishers Forum. Her middle grade novella, Sana fi Qena (A Year in Qena) was a finalist for the Etisalat Award in 2014 and is on the IBBY Honor List. It continues to be used in schools, alongside the biographies she wrote of Naguib Mahfouz and Ahmed Zewail. Recently, she wrote song lyrics for the children’s album Afratta in a musical collaboration produced by Mophradat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/8077171a-a6d5-483b-b0fc-c24284eab14d/55767507.jpg Season Three - Episode 8: Hadil Ghoneim Our guest this week is Hadil Ghoneim. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/sarraidriss monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/3b757f24-39ac-40aa-886e-1ea1d1bc970d/MySisterSara_SarraIdris.jpg Season Three - Episode 7: Sarra Idriss Our guest this week is Sarra Idriss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1e2c9c40-3099-49cf-a71c-0ea4d7643c48/SarraIdris.jpg Season Three - Episode 7: Sarra Idriss - Sarra Idriss Sarra Idris is a Sudanese-American director, editor, and visual artist based in New York. She is the partner and co-founder of Golden Tusk Labs, a creative development company devoted to telling great stories from unexplored perspectives. As an editor, Sarra has over 15 years of experience in various projects across TV, commercials, web series, short films, and music videos. Companies include NBC Universal (Saturday Night Live), PSYOP, Google Creative Lab, MPC, Twitter, Pentagram, and BBC America. As a director, Sarra's short films have been screened at the Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase, New York African Film Festival, Cinetopia Film Festival at the Smithsonian Arab American National Museum (AANM), and The ICA London. Outside of her professional ventures, Sarra is committed to promoting cross-cultural understanding for underrepresented voices. She worked and taught in Sudan (in both Kosti and Khartoum) as part of The Cultural Healing Program and as an Artist in Residence at the Rashid Diab Arts Centre in Khartoum. She is currently on faculty at the School of Visual Art in New York. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/mike-mosallam monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/e978a770-ab69-4500-85ce-ea7c1efeb3af/291536865_460864542708089_7083977668256268048_n.jpg Season Three - Episode 6: Mike Mosallam On this episode of Season 3, we interview Mike Mossallem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/b1b29048-5705-426a-a5d8-719e9ab633c9/Mike+Mossallem.png Season Three - Episode 6: Mike Mosallam - Mike Mosallam Mike Mosallam is the creator and Co-Executive-Producer of the 2011 critically acclaimed TLC series, All-American Muslim. Most recently, Mike was an Executive Creative Consultant on Season 2 of Hulu's Ramy. His second feature film (a film adaptation of Heather Raffo’s Nine Parts of Desire) premiered on PBS in the spring of 2023. His latest script, The Untitled Chubby Muslim Project, was a Black List selection in 2020. Currently in development are a tv series adaptation of Breaking Fast and a feature film based on CNN Hero, Rahul Dabey. On the theatre side, Mike has produced and directed more than 100 theatrical productions. Most notably he is a Co-Producer on the 6-time Tony nominated revival of PARADE starring Ben Platt and the 6-time Tony nominated revival of A DOLL’S HOUSE starring Jessica Chastain. He is a proud Muslim and Lebanese American. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/usama-alshaibi monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1f442f3f-cf2a-4d6f-ac38-80419bedb006/UsamaAlshaibi.jpg Season Three - Episode 5: Usama Alshaibi - Usama Alshaibi Usama Alshaibi was born in Baghdad, Iraq and spent his formative years living between the United States and the Middle East. He’s an active filmmaker and artist, who works in documentary and fiction, often blurring the line between the two. His films have screened widely at underground and international film festivals, media exhibitions and museums. He’s received grants from organizations such as the MacArthur Foundation, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Playboy Foundation, and the Creative Capital Foundation for the Arts. His first feature documentary, Nice Bombs, which was shot in Baghdad a few months after the start of the United States invasion of Iraq, had a theatrical release in Chicago and New York, and a broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel. His experimental narrative film Profane won several awards, including best feature film at the Boston Underground Film Festival. His second documentary feature, American Arab, had its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and was nationally broadcast on television through PBS World Channel. Some of his prominent short films include Soon, Here, The Desire, The Muslim Meme, The Flowering, Baghdad, Iowa, Allahu Akbar, Dream of Samarra and Dance Habibi Dance. Usama is a Teaching Associate Professor at Colorado State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/5dcbc680-736e-4804-a6be-fca609f66a2c/AAPoster4Web.jpg Season Three - Episode 5: Usama Alshaibi This week’s guest is Usama Alshaibi. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/etaf-rum monthly 0.5 2024-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/83882ba6-48fb-42d8-acd0-b547fda2e7c6/Etaf+Rum.jpeg Season Three - Episode 4: Etaf Rum - Etaf Rum Etaf Rum is a Palestinian-American New York Times Bestselling author. Her debut novel, “A Woman Is Man,” garnered attention as a Today Show Read with Jenna Pick, marking the beginning of her literary acclaim. With her latest novel, “Evil Eye,” recognized as an NPR Best Book of the Year, Etaf Rum solidifies her position as a leading voice in literary fiction that transcends continents and histories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/16bdd0d9-98ba-4b2d-837d-817da50c0495/evil+eye.jpg Season Three - Episode 4: Etaf Rum This week’s guest is Etaf Rum. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/judechehab monthly 0.5 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/488aaf6e-d43b-4810-ba26-2dcbdbb4ea1b/JudeChehab_40U402023Headshot.jpg Season Three - Episode 3: Jude Chehab - Jude Chehab Jude Chehab is a Lebanese-American filmmaker, whose early career work has landed awards screening in film festivals worldwide. Her credits include collaborations with Refinery29, She Said Films, The Players Tribune, Oxfam GB, and Doctors without Borders. She was part of Abbas Kiarostami’s last student group in Cuba, where she worked on a piece under his guidance. She is a CIFF North Star, CAAM and NeXtDoc fellow. Jude's richly visual and intimate personal shooting style has illuminated issues close to her heart including the refugee crisis and female empowerment. She has recently worked as a DP on films in Somalia, Sudan and Pakistan and as an AP on Sesame Street’s newest show for Syrian refugees. She is based between NYC and Beirut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/9fac0d6c-8eda-4106-ae3e-e99a1dd40622/MV5BMDRlYTIxOGMtMDMwOC00NWE0LThjNjctZWVkNjAwOTg4Njk1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjU3NTI0Mg%40%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg Season Three - Episode 3: Jude Chehab Our guest this week is Jude Chehab. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/yahaashour monthly 0.5 2024-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/96aa342e-1ee5-4e46-81a6-a78d16f97cb2/Cover_A-Gaza-of-Siege-Genocide-pdf.jpg Season Three - Episode 2: Yahya Ashour Our guest this week is Yahya Ashour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/6a2fa7ce-dcd4-447e-adb2-d1d50a49cbc9/yahya-ashour-e1716220992736.jpeg Season Three - Episode 2: Yahya Ashour - Yahya Ashour Yahya Ashour was born in Gaza, Palestine. He published two books in Arabic, “That’s Why Ryan Walks This way” (a Children’s book) and “You’re a Window, They’re Clouds” (a poetry collection). His children’s book won the Arab Children’s Books Publishers Forum Award in 2022. He is an honorary fellow at the University of Iowa and a 2022 Fall Resident of the International Writing Program there. https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-three-1/danadargos monthly 0.5 2024-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/cdd6629c-f7d6-467f-b674-09ede726a20d/aftthvul62ck8u77brvlghl56j._SY450_CR0%2C0%2C450%2C450_.jpg Season Three - Episode 1: Dana Dargos - About Dana Dargos With a degree in English Literature from UC Berkeley, Dana Dargos held various positions such as columnist, magazine and film review writer, editor, and content creator for prominent companies like Facebook and Lucid Motors. Dargos collaborated with her uncle, Said Al Bizri, for her debut novel, Einstein in the Attic, which has won numerous awards and is one of the few Arab American novels to venture in the genre of science fiction. Her novel discusses the intersectionality of science, culture, and spirituality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/9d6eeee5-448e-463e-91ab-c10de2706420/61E3h1sDX3L._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg Season Three - Episode 1: Dana Dargos We are kicking off season 3 with an interview with Dana Dargos. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes-1 daily 0.75 2025-10-23 https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes-1/migo monthly 0.5 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/600d095e-a50a-4591-9478-ca7e26e18cba/Messenger_creation_EFDB3D9E-3934-4D6B-95FA-B16752ED749D.jpeg Season Four - Episode 4: Migo Migo Migo is an Egyptian Comics artist and author, born in Cairo 1988. He studied film making in the United States. He worked in many magazines such as TokTok, Samandal, Lab619, “Words Without Borders”, and a number of journals and publications. His art showed in many international art exhibitions. Migo is an art director for several books and magazines including the magazine “A’lak fin? winner of the best printed magazine 2016. In 2017, he directed a short animation film for BBC Arabic, “Shame,” and received the Best Short Story award at the Cairo Comix International Festival 2016. In 2021, he won the 6th Mahmoud Kahil Award in the comics section. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/f754d6a7-a999-4a2c-9b3f-e815dacf0b73/Messenger_creation_03240F2D-5C1D-4D58-8098-F40993BA1463.jpeg Season Four - Episode 4: Migo This week we connect with Migo! https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes-1/al-juthoor monthly 0.5 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/1b7ecaf0-4e32-4971-8a7f-aa3dde6c3e55/al+juthoor.jpg Season Four - Episode 3: Al-Juthoor of the Arab Diaspora This week we connect with members of the dabkeh dance troop, Al-Juthoor of the Arab Diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/5b72bb43-2155-4659-830f-4b23ea04c86e/480028774_947702587471273_1792867276170760227_n.jpg Season Four - Episode 3: Al-Juthoor of the Arab Diaspora Al-Juthoor of the Arab Diaspora Al-Juthoor (“Roots” in Arabic) of the Arab Diaspora is a Dabkeh troupe that raises awareness about Arab and Palestinian struggle, culture, and art. Directed by Wael Buhaissy, Al-Juthoor empowers our community and youth to take pride in our heritage, our past, and our future by honoring our history and celebrating our resistance. Across the borders of our diaspora, we assert our community’s connection to our deep roots in the land and the people throughout the Arab world, from Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Palestine. https://seenjeempodcast.org/episodes-1/julia-yezbick monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6179827529e3ff71f586f90a/fde3b220-14a9-4c07-8530-efe107a0acd1/badassphonographer.jpg Season Four - Episode 2: Dr. Julia Yezbick Dr. Julia Yezbick Julia Yezbick (she/her) is a filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist. She received her PhD in Media Anthropology and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Her research takes an integrated approach to inquiry often using multimodal methods. Yezbick's creative practice is primarily one of experimental nonfiction addressing topics of labor, movement and the body, feminism, and social commentary on issues ranging from ethnicity and gender to housing and urban transformations. Her work uses film, video, audio, writing, performance, and installation, and has been exhibited at various international festivals and venues including the Berlin International Film Festival, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the New York Library for Performing Arts, Station Arts Space (Beirut), the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Broad Underground Film series (Lansing), the AgX Film Collective (Boston), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. 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