What Are Podcasts For, Anyway?
In Kasurian's latest essay, What Are Podcasts For, Anyway? Mariam Mahmoud asks the question on everyone's minds.
Over the past century, audio has transformed from a new sensory art form and a tool of collective storytelling to something that can't quite be named, but unsettles the spirit.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Muslim podcast ecosystem, where conspiratorial bombshells, grievance-baiting, and urgency theatre bombard its listeners with sensationalism that serves to disorder, rather than elevate, their minds.
It is into this pernicious ecosystem that ‘More Muslim’, a new podcast produced by alums of the golden age of podcasts, and hosted by Islamic scholar, Georgetown professor, and founding director of Mujadilah, a women’s mosque and intellectual institution in Doha, Qatar, that Dr. Sohaira Siddiqui arrives.
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Julian Casablancas at Coachella: "I was tempted to come out tonight with a laptop and show you guys some of those Iran LEGO videos. You guys see those? Very good. More facts than your local news. But they were taken down. YouTube or government or whatever. They took that sh*t down. Land of the free, am I right?"
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UNUSUAL
Indonesia is pursuing its interests in both the East and the West.
President Prabowo Subianto traveled to Moscow to seek President Putin’s support on energy matters, while at the same time he sent his defense minister, Jafri Syamsuddin, to Washington — but to offer sovereign concessions to the United States.
At the Pentagon, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth received his Indonesian counterpart, as U.S. officials are seeking to secure his signature on an agreement that would grant the United States full permission for its military aircraft to pass through Indonesia’s airspace.
تراثنا… بين يديك رقميًا
ضمن سلسلة “تراثنا: النشر الرقمي باعتماد المعهد” (40)
نأخذكم في رحلة معرفية مع كتاب: “رسالة في بيان رسوم المصاحف العثمانية الستة” للإمام محمد بن بير علي البركوي (ت 981هـ)
إعداد: أ.د. إياد سالم السامرائي.
للقراءة: https://t.co/m65kQ5fLD8
For anyone interested in reading the book and/or thread, I have written a respectful review/critique of it over on AcademicQuran:
https://t.co/bpDQXr9tcE
A Medieval Coptic writer was faced a dilemma: the Pericope Adulterae isn't in his exemplar. He visited archives in Cairo & Damascus to collect its versions in Coptic, Syriac & Greek. what did he find? Join his facinating journey in this new article
https://t.co/27yKbas19F
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
What we are witnessing is the biggest decolonisation movement in history. A depraved narcissist and a genocidal maniac together triggered the Iranian nation to liberate the entire Middle East and perhaps beyond. Since the Sykes-Picot agreement (1916), Middle Easterners have had no choice but to "capitulate".
Many of our intellectuals in the Arab world and Turkey knew nothing but complicity within this colonial system; their minds, like the resources of their countries, having been colonised. The #Iranian nation, having raised so many brave scholars, intellectuals, and activists, has shown the world that there is another way; if one is willing to accept the pain and suffering that comes with it.
As Frantz Fanon put it best in his Wretched of the Earth, the colonial system's greatest weapon is violence, and no one can endure de-colonisation without embracing pain. But once the threshold of pain is crossed with patience and forbearance, there is nothing that can stop the inevitable collapse of oppression.
Forged by the culture of Karbala, the Iranian people embrace pain and suffering as a religious virtue, and through their remarkable unity and national consciousness (as we see in the millions now filling the streets, defying death) they are perhaps the most equipped people to deliver the Middle East from centuries of colonialism.
Once the current fighting is all over, we will wake up to a new world where American hegemony is no longer the norm in the region, but a remnant of a terrible past.
Presiden Prabowo Subianto merasakan ada pihak yang menjelek-jelekkan program Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG) sebagai program yang menghambur-hamburkan uang.
“Mereka meramalkan proyek ini pasti gagal, program ini menghambur-hamburkan uang,” kata Prabowo di Palmerah, Jakarta Barat, Jumat (13/2/2026).
Dia mengatakan, MBG ini dijalankan bukan dari Anggaran Penerimaan Belanja Negara (APBN), melainkan dari sumber lain yakni efisiensi anggaran.
“Padahal saudara-saudara, uang ini adalah hasil penghematan, hasil efisiensi dari anggaran yang saya dan tim saya yakin, kalau tidak kita hemat, uang ini akan dimakan oleh korupsi, akan dihabis-habiskankan untuk memperkaya oknum-oknum pribadi-pribadi,” tutur Prabowo.
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~WR #Prabowo #MakanBergiziGratis