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History Speaks EP 7 | Storytelling, Virtue Ethics, and Rūmī | Roshan Iqbal with Cyrus Ali Zargar

January 17, 2024October 14, 2025

In this episode of History Speaks, Roshan Iqbal speaks with Cyrus Zargar on the role of storytelling and virtue ethics in the work of Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, the 13th-century jurist, philosopher, poet, and polymath….

[Maydan Podcast] On the Square EP 11 – Preserving the Legacy: Black Creatives Making a Way

By Maydan Editors  //  April 26, 2023

 The Maydan Podcast · On the Square EP 11 – Preserving the Legacy: Black Creatives Making a Way Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed, Special Projects Lead at Sapelo Square sits down with Bee Walker, photographer, filmmaker…

On the Square EP 11 – Preserving the Legacy: Black Creatives Making a Way

April 26, 2023May 26, 2023

Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed, Special Projects Lead sits down with Bianca Bee Walker, photographer, filmmaker and one-half of Paper Monday. Within this episode, Aïdah and Bee talk about the beginning stages behind the collaborative project between…

On The Square EP4-Telling Our Own Stories: Black Muslim Writers

June 1, 2021

In this episode, Sapelo Square Arts and Culture Editor Ambata Kazi-Nance speaks with author and educator Amani-Nzinga Jabbar about her book, I Bear Witness, the craft of writing, writing about difficult subject matter, and her…

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