The Field Between

Yasmine (professor of Islamic Studies) and Ahmed (online) meet in The Field Between. Listen to a young Muslim couple talk about current events, politics, reading, poetry, academia, and much more.

Ep.98 Jewish Anti-Zionism, Warsaw Ghetto Uprisings, Cape Cod w/Julia Mason Wedgle 08/12/2025

Ep.98 Jewish Anti-Zionism, Warsaw Ghetto Uprisings, Cape Cod w/Julia Mason Wedgle We talk to Julia Mason Wedgle about the Jewish Left, Anti-Zionism, and the similarities between the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Palestinian resistance. We close out with a more lighthearted trip to Cape Cod, where Alan Dershowitz is standing up to poisonous Polish pierogis. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/37754610

ep.97 Men's coaching, Labubu, Sydney Sweeney 08/04/2025

ep.97 Men's coaching, Labubu, Sydney Sweeney Mostly just yapping on this one. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/37656665

Ep.96 Superman, Columbia, Brett Stephens, Mahmoud v. Taylor 07/28/2025

Ep.96 Superman, Columbia, Brett Stephens, Mahmoud v. Taylor It's MEGA episode to make up for the one we missed. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/37570295

Ep.95 Ashura, Furry-watch 2025, BCG 07/08/2025

Ep.95 Ashura, Furry-watch 2025, BCG We also discuss the conservative meltdown over Zohran Mamdani eating with his hands. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/37336145

Ep.94 Zohran Mamdani & Denaturalization 07/03/2025

Ep.94 Zohran Mamdani & Denaturalization This is a BIG BEAUTIFUL episode. We debut a new movie trailer before we discuss Mamdani's win, and speculate how the ruling class will attempt to stop him, then we discuss the Bob Vylan protest in the context of the ongoing Nakba. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/37271760

Ep.93 Struck by the East w/Muhammad Ali Mojaradi (Persian Poetics) 06/24/2025

Ep.93 Struck by the East w/Muhammad Ali Mojaradi (Persian Poetics) Muhammad (AKA @ AKA @) joins us to discuss the insane moment, in which we find ourselves careening into a war with Iran at the behest of Israel. In the second half of the episode we turn to a discussion of Persian culture, poetry, and influence, as well as Muhammad's recently published book, , a translation of Rumi's 100 most passionate poems. The song at the end is 'Seeb' by Simin Ghanem. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/37109140

Ep.92 Egypt & the March to Gaza w/ Hossam el-Hamalawy 06/15/2025

Ep.92 Egypt & the March to Gaza w/ Hossam el-Hamalawy Hossam el-Hamalawy returns to the show to talk to us about Egypt's response to the March To Gaza, an internationally coordinated effort by activists to break Israel's siege of Gaza. We also discuss Israel's latest escalation in Iran. Make sure you check out Hossam's work on Substack: You can also find him @3rabawy on social media /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/37013600

The Beasts We Carry w/Rishi Gandhi 06/09/2025

The Beasts We Carry w/Rishi Gandhi Rishi Gandhi is an award-winning filmmaker. A first-generation immigrant of Indian descent, Rishi has moved between the Côte d’Ivoire, the UK, and the US. Though he has spent years traveling the world, he ultimately decided to make film his home. He joins Ahmed on this special episode to talk about his new project titled 'The Beasts We Carry'. Please support the project on Kickstarter: You can follow Rishi and his work on social media: @senor_rish on Instagram and @rishjg.bsky.social on Bluesky /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/36921555

Ep.91 Boulder, ADL, authoritarianism, 06/05/2025

Ep.91 Boulder, ADL, authoritarianism, We do a little bit of everything on this one, including ask 'Can a woman find a husband if she has ever been photographed?' Here's an article that is relevant to our discussion of the ADL: /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/36858055

Ep.90 Hamza Yusuf, Mayoral Elections, DC Shooting, West Wing 05/27/2025

Ep.90 Hamza Yusuf, Mayoral Elections, DC Shooting, West Wing Closing in on 100 episodes! This one is pretty packed. I'm sick, so the editing is haphazard. We talk about Hamza Yusuf working with the Trump Administration, then we go on to discuss the outcome of Pittsburgh's mayoral primary and why a forceful stance on Gaza should be a litmus test for progressive politicians. We close by briefly discussing the shooting that happened in DC last week, and unexpectedly veer into an update on The West Wing. PLEASE leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to our show! /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/36724005

Ep.89 Content for our times 05/20/2025

Ep.89 Content for our times We talk about a lot here: India & Pakistan warring in Kashmir Trump's Middle East tour and why leftists shouldn't be so quick to praise him for "sidelining Israel" Kanye Grok's obsession with white genocide and Holocaust denial Thomas Friedman's beautiful tribute to Joe Biden /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/36635075

Ep.88 Anti-semitism at Barstool 05/08/2025

Ep.88 Anti-semitism at Barstool Yasmine lets Ahmed ramble about Dave Portnoy for 20 minutes. Mostly we just build a case that Dave (and other rich elites) seem less concerned with actually existing anti-semitism, and more concerned with disciplining those who they want to control. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/36480380

Ep.87 Investigating Harvard's Islamic Outpost 05/02/2025

Ep.87 Investigating Harvard's Islamic Outpost Glad to be back after a little break! We catch up on life. Yasmine gives us an update about the Facebook tell-all story 'Careless People', we discuss a Supreme Court case in which a Muslim family joined two Christian families to ask the Court to protect their kids from... books? Lastly, we discuss Ruth Wisse's column in the WSJ titled 'Harvard is an Islamist Outpost'. It seems like you can just email the WSJ opinion editor and it just gets automatically published. Pretty neat! /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/36410700

Ep.86 Not On Our Dime update w/ Addy Lord 04/09/2025

Ep.86 Not On Our Dime update w/ Addy Lord Addy Lord from Pittsburgh's Not On Our Dime returns with an update about the ballot referendum initiative, and how Zionist groups in Pittsburgh (including elected officials) rallied to keep the measure off the ballot. This is an important episode for those who want to understand how to start similar initiatives in their cities. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/36070295

Ep.85 Islamic meme coins, NEOM, Academic repression, Palestine 04/07/2025

Ep.85 Islamic meme coins, NEOM, Academic repression, Palestine We're back! This is a pretty packed episode. We discuss Mubarak coin, John Fetterman, and how things are going over in NEOM before Yasmine takes us through some updates on the continued targeting/deportation of students. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/36041695

Ep.84 Muawiya 03/25/2025

Ep.84 Muawiya We discuss episode one of the Saudi funded Ramadan series Muawiya. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/35848630

Ep.83 Columbia University is a prison 03/20/2025

Ep.83 Columbia University is a prison Just before recording this, Mosab Abu-Toha reported through his Instagram page that Israel murdered hundreds of people as it resumed its genocide in full force and reports from Gaza have only gotten worse since then. Yasmine carries most of this episode with discussion of what's happening at Columbia and the reverberations for academia in general. Be safe, everyone. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/35791530

Ep.82 Should Muslims leave the Democratic Party? w/ Sana Saeed & Hamid Bendaas 03/03/2025

Ep.82 Should Muslims leave the Democratic Party? w/ Sana Saeed & Hamid Bendaas We really enjoyed our conversation with two people who are doing incredible work in their respective fields: Hamid Bendaas, formerly in comms for Bernie Sanders and current communications director for , and award-winning journalist/media critic . We discuss the question of whether Muslims (and other people) should continue abandoning the Democratic Party as well look toward future elections. This was already an ongoing strategy in some states in 2024, but we felt it's worth seriously revisiting the question now that we know a bit more about how the second Trump administration is shaping up. We hope you enjoy the episode, and we'd be especially interested in heard more thoughts on the topic. Feel free to drop us a comment on Youtube, or DM us on Instagram @the_field_between_pod /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/35506440

Ep.81 The Imperial Boomerang & Palestine 02/27/2025

Ep.81 The Imperial Boomerang & Palestine We discuss Noura Erakat's article, 'The Boomerang Comes Back', in as well as some of the articles linked in the citations. We then quickly reflect on the one-year mark since Aaron Bushnell's self immolation. We highly recommend reading . /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/35447820

Ep.80 Imam Muhsin Hendricks' martyrdom, Miami shooting, Musk's incompetence 02/19/2025

Ep.80 Imam Muhsin Hendricks' martyrdom, Miami shooting, Musk's incompetence We weigh in on the news of the week, primarily on the murder and martyrdom of Imam Muhsin Hendricks in South Africa, and why Muslims need to keep pushing for queer Muslim spaces. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/35342895

Ep.79 Trump Austerity, Gaza Plan, and Sovereign Wealth Fund 02/10/2025

Ep.79 Trump Austerity, Gaza Plan, and Sovereign Wealth Fund Professor Yasmine gives her perspective and insight on the cuts in education spending. We then discuss Trump floating his plan to ethnically cleanse Palestine and how no one in the opposition party or press is embarrassing him for continuing the longstanding tradition of U.S. Presidents being Netanyahu's lapdogs. Lastly, we discuss the sovereign wealth fund order Trump signed, and why we're CAUTIOUSLY hopeful. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/35226050

Ep.78 Meet your (Muslim Match)maker 02/03/2025

Ep.78 Meet your (Muslim Match)maker We have a delightful conversation with Hoda Abrahim (@watshoodie), half of the matchmaking duo on Hulu's forthcoming show Muslim Matchmaker, about her journey as a Muslim matchmaker, love, courtship, and more. You can watch Muslim Matchmaker on Hulu starting February 11th and, if you're a single Muslim looking for that special someone, you can find out more about Hoda's matchmaking service here: /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/35122735

Ep.77 Harvard adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism 01/27/2025

Ep.77 Harvard adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism We discuss the IHRA definition of antisemitism and what it means that Harvard adopted it. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/35023490

Ep.76 Life updates, ceasefire discussion, TikTok ban 01/20/2025

Ep.76 Life updates, ceasefire discussion, TikTok ban We spend most of the time discussing the ceasefire on this one. We hope to do another episode in which we can bring on an expert who can help us cut through some of the noise. Help us out by subscribing/rating our show wherever you listen to podcasts (it really does help us improve our reach), and follow us on Instagram @The_Field_Between_Pod. We also launched our Youtube channel! We hope to have some video content soon. You can find that at @TheFieldBetween. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/34925800

Ep.75 H1-B& Desi supremacy, Nosferatu, Organ transplants 01/13/2025

Ep.75 H1-B& Desi supremacy, Nosferatu, Organ transplants We talk about Nosferatu (no spoilers, but the story is also more than a century old, so c'mon), Ramaswamy & Musk's support of the H1-B program, and a medical article that has rocked Yasmine's world in the last month. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/34837385

Ep.74 Egypt 2025 roundup w/ Hossam El-Hamalawy 01/06/2025

Ep.74 Egypt 2025 roundup w/ Hossam El-Hamalawy We are joined by Hossam El Hamalawy, a revolutionary socialist and journalist. You can find his work on Middle East Eye and his Substack 3rabawy, where he provides commentary on Egypt’s military, security services, foreign policy, and local dissent. Links: /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/34731485

Ep.73 Not On Our Dime w/ Addy Lord & Ben Case 01/03/2025

Ep.73 Not On Our Dime w/ Addy Lord & Ben Case We are thrilled to be joined by Addy and Ben, who are on the steering committee for Pittsburgh's Not On Our Dime campaign, a grassroots effort to financially divest the city of Pittsburgh from Israel's war crimes, as well as provide a means of democratic oversight of the city's funds by requiring some level of transparency into how the city invests taxpayer money. This is a great episode for anyone who wants to learn more about the campaign, about ballot measure more generally, and anyone who wants to support these sorts of efforts. Please support the Not On Our Dime campaign by signing up to volunteer (if you're in Pittsburgh), and by donating here: /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/34701750

Ep.72 Hawk-Tuah coin, bad NYT opinions, Christmas tree debate 12/16/2024

Ep.72 Hawk-Tuah coin, bad NYT opinions, Christmas tree debate We catch up on a few random items, then we discuss the cryptocurrency scandal surrounding Hailey Welch (Hawk Tuah), another beautifully-written opinion piece by NYT's Bret Stephens, and then Ahmed finally get Yasmine to admit she wants a Christmas tree. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/34462150

Ep.71 Bari-o and Luigi 12/10/2024

Ep.71 Bari-o and Luigi We catch up on the weekend, and then discuss a really insightful Thomas Friedman article in which he solves Syria. Then we discuss Bari Weiss's media outlet's investigation into a Muslim press conference before we talk about Luigi Mangione, his arrest, and a moment that seemingly brought everyone together. /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/34360070

Ep.70 Syria & the problem with "The Left" 12/04/2024

Ep.70 Syria & the problem with "The Left" We try to provide a very basic summary of what's happening in Syria, but mostly we respond to a lacking analysis coming from the US left that seems to think the Russian nation state has noble intentions in the region. As always, we welcome feedback. As we stated in the episode, we would be happy to have anyone on who can further clarify some things that are beyond our current understanding of the situation. If you know that person (or are that person), DM us on instagram @the_field_between_pod. Media we recommend: Foreign Exchanges with Derek Davison American Prestige (Derek Davison and Danny Bessner) Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill /episode/index/show/4784ab92-1ec0-4273-bd53-f52c0ca36aa9/id/34291775

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