More Muslim

Reporter Rowaida Abdelaziz was 21 the first time she watched a body lowered into a grave. Her cousin, a young mother, died just days before her 33rd birthday. No one knew what to do in that moment of unthinkable grief. All they knew was that someone had to make the arrangements. That's when a woman named Howaida stepped in. This week on the show, reporter Rowaida Abdelaziz travels across New Jerse...

The number of Muslims in Japan has almost quadrupled in the last two decades. Migrants are coming in ever greater numbers to work there from countries like Indonesia. And yet, Islam is still seen as this... foreign, elusive thing. This week on the show, reporter Tanita Rahmani follows two Muslim women who try to change things. And begin the long journey towards normalizing their faith and the slow...

As millions of Muslims complete Hajj this week, we revisit a question scholars have debated for centuries: can a Muslim woman make a journey like that without a mahram? This week on the show, host Sohaira Siddiqui recalls the first time she ran headfirst into that debate, when she decided to tell her parents she wanted to move to Jordan to study Arabic. And how that initial conversation at her par...

When reporter Yassmin Abdel-Magied's friend tells her she's been using ChatGPT as a therapist, Yassmin doesn't know what to think. The chatbot calls her friend "habibti." Gives her Islamic relationship advice. It's helping her reconnect with her faith in ways no human in her life has been able to. But it's also a product built by a tech company with no foundations in Islamic psychology. This week...

Growing up, Aina had heard about the transatlantic slave trade that enslaved Africans and took them to the Americas. But on one of her reporting trips, she was shocked to learn that, around the same time, Dutch colonizers were deporting and enslaving Muslims from Indonesia and shipping them thousands of miles... all the way to South Africa. This week, reporter Aina J. Khan takes us to Cape Town an...

When war broke out in Sudan in April 2023, Dr. Fairouz El Hijzi had to flee her home with her family. Two months later, as a hastily-appointed interim dean of architecture, she faced an impossible choice: give up on her students' futures or attempt to resume classes in the middle of the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history. This is the story of what happened when she and her students decide...

For most of her life, Maryam believed women couldn’t recite the Qur’an aloud. That a woman’s voice, especially while reciting the Qur’an, is awrah . Something to be hidden. Then, one day in high school, she heard a girl recite in public. Reporter Nadeen Shaker shares the story of Maryam Amir, one woman’s journey to revive her relationship with Islam through the Qur’an. And how it sparked a recitat...

In last week’s episode, The Secret Translators , we told the story of the three white American reverts behind the Saheeh International translation of the Qur’an, and the unique challenges they faced in translating the holy text. But that was only part of the story. This week, we’re sharing an episode from The Digital Sisterhood that digs deeper into the life of one of the translators, Amatullah "A...

The ‘Saheeh International’ translation is one of the most widely read English versions of the Qur’an. But unlike other famous translations like those by Yusuf Ali and Mohammed Abdel Saleem, the authors of the translation are rarely ever mentioned by name. Until one day, The Digital Sisterhood ’s Cadar Mohamud hears a rumor about who actually wrote the mysterious translation: three white revert Ame...

There’s a sentence many Muslim women grow up hearing. “It’s better for women to pray at home.” But what does it mean when the presence of half our community in the most central and sacred space of Muslim life is up for debate? Reporter Taqwa Sadiq traces the evolution of Muslim women's relationship with the mosque, from the prophetic era when women prayed alongside men without barriers, to today's...

Reporter Tanita Rahmani realizes a small detail—blue ink instead of black on a marriage contract—means her marriage was never legally registered. That revelation sends her on a personal and investigative journey into the legal gray zone where many Muslim marriages exist: recognized by faith, but invisible to the law. From overlooked paperwork in New York to courtroom battles in the UK, this episod...

More Muslim is a narrative audio documentary series that explores the Muslim experience, with all its messiness. Season one, starts February 1st.