Jul 31, 2023
We watched Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' and use Arundhati Roy's essay, 'The End of Imagination,' about India's nuclear bomb test in 1998 to discuss it.
Episode artwork: Batata lounging in the sunny window while we discuss the sheer psychological horror of nuclear annihilation.
Jul 24, 2023
We finally decided on a new structure for this podcast. Every other week we will discuss a reading, and in the in-between weeks, we'll do something fun. This is a fun one! We do call-out culture on one another's bad behaviors.
Jul 17, 2023
We share some of our favorite Sufi poetry by Ibn Arabi and Rumi. Also, SOMEONE gets fact-checked twice on this episode.
If you're interested in the translation we're using, you can find them here:
Michael Sells' translation of Ibn Arab: Stations of Desire
Omid Safi's translation of Rumi: Radical...
Jul 12, 2023
We dive deep into Ahmed's childhood trauma featuring Mel Gibson's body-horror 'The Passion of The Christ' (2004).