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Peacemindedly
by Sara Jamshidi
A podcast show about peace and peace media
Episodes
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Eyeliner, an Anciently Modern Makeup Tool
Seen through Zahra Hankir's eyes, Eyeliner becomes a portal to history, proof both of the stunning variety among cultures and our shared humanity. Through intimate reporting and conversations—with nomads in Chad, geishas in Japan, dancers in India, drag queens in New York, and more—Eyeliner...
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71: Period, the Real Story of Mensuration by Kate Clancy
About half of the world deals directly with bloody menstruation, and the other half endures it indirectly. Yet, we do not know much about the blood women lose every month for years to come. In this episode, Kate Clancy, a scientist and researcher at the University of Illinois-Champaign, ucovers…
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Kindness Diary: Feeling Peace and Kindness in a Garden in Paris
Louis Place de Vosges is a garden at the hart of Paris that was built by Henri IV. It is a true square and one of the European programs of Royal City planning. I was there to take a rest in late Afternoon in Paris. Everything was so peaceful and divine.
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9 Books by Courageous Muslim Women Writers to Read This Summer
Sofia Rehman, Muslim scholar and avid book reader suggested the following books for us to read this summer. Read more here.
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70: Kindness Diary: A Man Bended and Picked A trash at Long Boom Park
I saw a man picked a trash from the ground and put it in a trash can at Long Boom Park at Lake City. I walked by the same piece of trash, never bothered to bend. He was kinder! Thank you.
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69: A Treasury of Aishah by Sofia Rehman
I talked with Dr. Sofia Rehman, an independent female scholar of Islam, about her book A Treasury of Aishah: A Guidance from the Beloved of the Beloved. We talked about the slander that Aishah had to endure, her wisdom, her wit, her intellectual capacity, and the Prophet's believe that Muslims...
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68: Kindness Diary: My Mood Matched the Nature Extraordinary
I was utterly sad about something. I decided to take my sadness into nature. What happened next was unbelievably extraordinary.
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The High Cost of Being a Journalist in Iran
Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi were among the first journalists to cover Mahsa Amini's death, the 22-year-old woman who was detained by Iran's morality police for improper hijab, and then died in the hospital. Niloofar Hammadi broke the story by publishing photographs of Amini lying…
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Green Living Is Peaceful Living
I've been obsessed with eco-friendly, minimal, or what we often call these days: green living. My obsession is not new. I've been invested in this topic as long as I can remember. Back in the mid-1980s I lived in Tehran when Iran was defending itself against the U.S.-supported Iraq attack. The…
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65: Kindness Diary: Don't Yell at Your Husband When He Opens Amazon Box Mistakenly!
I yaled at my kind husband for opening my Amazon box ... because he ruined my TikTok vidoe!!
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63: Muslim Women Expanding Scared Space to Gain more Religious Authorities
This pioneering book makes an innovative contribution to Muslim feminist ethics. It is grounded in a collection of religious sermons (khutbahs) by contemporary Muslim women in a variety of new and emerging contexts, in South Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Canada, Mexico…
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64: Kindness Diary: A Car Tank Full of Gas
I turned the engine on and saw the arrow for the car tank on dashboard turned all the way to full. I was so grateful for the kindness of my husband!
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63: Kindness diary: Someone at Starbucks Line Paid for my Order
At the Starbuck car line, a pickup truck paid for our order. It was kindness and compassion toward us!
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E. 62: To Be More Peaceful, One Should Stay Away from Un-Peaceful
Everyone was telling me I must interview 'This Person,' that I do not name him for the sake of anonymity. They said, and I heard, that he is an expert on Iran; he has written more than eight books about Iran and the U.S. relations, he gives lectures about Iran and Islam around the world, he is a...
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Parenting with an Accent by Masha Rumer
About our guest: Masha Rumer is an award-winning journalist and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Quartz, the Moscow Times, Parents.com, and elsewhere. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, she now lives with her family in California, where…
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Rooted in the Body by Lisa White
About our guest: Lisa J. White was a senior instructor of Arabic, and former executive director of CASA, the Center for Arabic Study Abroad at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo, where she taught for over thirty years. About the Book: We are all married to our…
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Shelley Kloba: How to Reach Out and to Be Advocate for Peace
Yesterday was May 25, 2022, the second anniversary of George Floyds murder. Around the same time, about two years ago, I talked with Shelly Kloba, Democratic Representative of the 1st District at the Washington House of Representatives. We talked about racism, white supremacy, George Floyd…
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A Personal Story: If the U.S. Controls Women's Bodies, Why Do We Criticize Iran?
An abortion is a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy. It is a basic healthcare need for millions of women, girls and others who can become pregnant. Worldwide, an estimate 1 in 4 pregnancies end in an abortion every year, according to Amnesty International. But while the need for abortion is...
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Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam by Ziba Mir-Hosseini
About this episode: If justice is an essential value in Islam, why have women been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic legal tradition? In her book Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam, Ziba Mir-Hosseini explores how democratic gender laws might be constructed from within the Islamic...
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Don't Forget Us At Guantanamo by Mansoor Adayefi
About the book At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then sold to the US after 9/11, he was disappeared to Guantánamo Bay, where he spent the next 14 years as Detainee #441. Don't Forget Us Here...
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Bilhana: Wholefood Recipes from Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco
Yasmine Elgharably is a self-taught home cook with a business background and a passion for Middle Eastern cuisine. She is the co-founder of CairoCooking.com, a recipe-sharing platform for Middle Eastern food. Shewekar Elgharably is an interior decorator. In 2016 she became a certified health…
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The Beauty of the Houri by Nerina Rustomji
The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001. The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals demonstrates how the ambiguous reward of the houri, mentioned in the Qur'an and developed in Islamic theological writings, has…
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Peacemindedly Podcast, Season Five, Ramadan Special and Much More ...
Hello and Salam to you beautiful peaceful bridge makers. Journalists report on women in Muslim and Middle Eastern countries when their rights are violated. But they report on women in Western societies when their rights are respected, according to Islamophobia and Media Portrayal of Muslim Women…
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Egyptian Flavors by Dyna Eldaief
About our guest: Dyana Eldaief is the author of Egyptian Flavors: 50 Recipes, easy-to-follow recipes that are rich with vegetables, flavors, legumes and meat. Dyna has appeared on the Middle East edition of the reality television cooking show The Taste. She is active on YouTube and Instagram and...
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Islam doesn't have a feminism, women are creating one; and The U.S. media vs. Muslims
Islam doesn't have a feminism, women are creating one; and The U.S. media vs. Muslims
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Reopening Muslim Minds by Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. In his work, he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. Mustafa is defined by various media outlets as one of the most notable Muslim modernist and reformist. He has been…
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Omid Roustaei: Thanksgiving, Persian Style
Omid Roustaei is a Persian chef / recipe developer with a well-attended blog called Caspian Chef – Omid Roustaei. Omid's love of Persian cooking started when Omid was determined to keep his nostalgic connection with his homeland Iran, and his home-city Babol. A former-private chef, Omid combines...
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How to Raise a Feminist Son: Sonora Jha
Sonora Jha, Ph.D., is a novelist, essayist, researcher, and a Professor of Journalism at Seattle University. Sonora was born in India, where she had a career as a journalist in Mumbai and Bangalore before moving to Singapore and then to the United States. Sonora's academic research on the…
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Women and Gender in the Qur'an: Celene Ibrahim
Celene Ibrahim is the author of Women and Gender in the Qur'an. In her book, Ibrahim explores the complex cast of female figures in the Qur'an, probing themes related to biological sex, female sexuality, female speech, and women in sacred history. Stories about gendered social relations permeate...
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Climate Change Conference 2021; Planting a Seed: Three Simple Steps to Sustainable Living: Kate Gaertner
About the author Kate Gaertner is a leading expert, sought-after speaker and consultant in corporate sustainability with 25 years of combined corporate and entrepreneurial experience. She holds a Masters of Science in Sustainable Management from the University of Wisconsin, an M.B.A. from the...
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Our Women on the Ground
Zahra Hankir features nineteen Arab women journalists who speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat—female journalists—are working tirelessly to shape nuanced...
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We Wrote in Symbols, Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers: Selma Dabbagh
We Wrote in Symbols is the first anthology to feature writing by Arab women on lust, love and the erotic. spanning 3000 years, it includes the works of classical authors, award-winning contemporary authors and emerging writers, published in English for the first time. It is a little-known secret...
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Executives of Halal Expo Explain Muslims' Peaceful and Healthy Ways of Living
About our guests: Marwan Ahmad is the CEO of U.S. Halal Consultant, organizer of Halal Expo and Summit USA and founder of Arabesque Media. a Virginia based marketing and event planning and management company. Ahmad has been in the marketing, event planning business since 1994. He served on a…
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The Colour of God, by Ayesha Chaudhry
his is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced a puritanical version of Islam to shield them from racism. Chaudhry explores the joys and sorrows of growing up in a fundamentalist Muslim household, wedding grand historical narratives of colonialism and migration to the small...
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Hijab and Red Lipstick by Yousra Imran
Hijab and Red Lipstick is a semi-autobiographical novel by Yousra Imran. Drawing from her experience as an English and Egyptian Muslim living in U.K., Imran shows Sara, the main character's challenges as she navigates living her life between pleasing her strict father and growing into her own...
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The Frontlines of Peace
In a surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching book: The Frontlines of Peace, Séverine Autesserre, award-winning author, peacebuilder, and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, explains the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build…
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Recipe for Refuge: Culinary Journeys to America
Recipes for Refuge is a delicious and unique collection offering readers an experience that transcends mere cookery. First, the food. These are the recipes that are passed down from mother to daughter, father to son, recipes that connect these global refugees to the place they once called home....
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The Dangers of Poetry: How the Middle East Poets Fight for Freedom
Kevin Jones is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia, and author of The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq. Levi Thompson is Assistant Professor of Arabic at the University of Colorado Boulder, who translated Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Ashegh...
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Behind the Kingdom's Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia Under Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman
Susanne Koelbl is an award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent for the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL. In her recent book Behind the Kingdom's Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia Under Mohammed Bin Salman, she chronicles the changes in Saudi Arabia in recent years. Sara Jamshidi will…
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Spring: A Captivating Novel About Egypt Revolution: Leila Rafei
Leila Rafei, author of the Spring, a daring beautiful novel about Egypt and Arab Spring, studied Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo. Originally born to Iranian-American parents, Leila knows a great deal about Egypt, its culture, food, music and its revolution. She will talk...
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Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience
Ron Bourke, filmmaker exploring issues of displacement, education, and healthcare directed Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience. He features Rana Dajani, scientist, world expert in genetics and founder of We Love Reading Project, as well as other other experts to learn about how Syrian...
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The Invisible Muslim: Journey Through Whiteness and Islam
Medina Tenour Whiteman is a writer, poet, translator, musician, and an Anglo-American born to Sufi converts. In her recent book The Invisible Muslim: Journey Through Whitness and Islam, she discusses how her white privileged background has not helped her to feel 'at home' with her Muslim friends…
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International Women's Day Special: Conversation with Two Prominent Professors
Aili Mari Tripp is Chair of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and professor of Political Science, and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her new book Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women's Rights recently published. Fatima Sadiqi is...
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Muslim Women Are Everything! But How?
Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy-Award winning journalist who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She and Fahmida Azim, illustrator whose artwork appeared on NPR, Dallas News, and a number of books and graphic novels, coauthored Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage,...
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Where Is Home?
Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, and traveler who writes extensively about language, power, conflict and religion. Ó Tuama is the master storyteller and host of On Being's Poetry Unbound. Previously, he was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland's oldest peace and reconciliation...
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Sex Education, Intimacy and Sensuality among Muslim Women on Valentine's Day
Chantal Blake is a travel writer and plant-based consultant from New York City. She currently lives in Oman. Chantal got frustrated about the lack of information about women's bodies and sexuality. She invited Nicole Monteiro, mental health expert, researcher and consultant to create a course to...
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I'll Meet You There: a Movie About Fighting Back Against Islamophobia in the U.S.
Iram Parveen Bilal just directed her third feature movie, I'LL MEET YOU THERE. Bilal is an ardent advocate for fair representation of female directors in the entertainment industry. To help us make sense of the movie, Dalia Mogahed, Director of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding,...
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How to cook blessing food during the Thanksgiving
At the time of feast, family and being merry, we are dealing with a deadly virus this year. The number of people getting affected by the Coronavirus is at the rise. Many families are experiencing hardships and heartbreaks. Yet, Thanksgiving is approaching. The tradition of Thanksgiving, giving...
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Muslim Women Desire: A Study in Istanbul by Sertac Sehlikoglu
Sertac Sehlikoglu shows us how women, not only in Istanbul, but in larger Middle East region, are using thier power, intelectual agencies and social status to create a favorable condition for htier personal desires. Sara Jamshidi talk with Sertac Sehlikoglu about the making of Muslim women desire...
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