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Inside Islam Radio Series

Produced by Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders

Upcoming Broadcasts

  • Nov 2009: Hajj/Eid Al-Adha (Pilgrimage)
  • Dec 2009: Islam and Science
  • Jan 2010: Art of Reciting the Qur’an
  • Feb 2010: Muslim Women Artists and Writers
  • March 2010: Images of the Prophet Muhammad
  • April 2010: Faith Conversion Stories

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Jean Feraca, Host of Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, nicely summed up the Inside Islam series during an Open Line show in early 2009. (See quote at right.) In that spirit, the project team has produced a wealth of radio shows about myriad aspects of Islam. You can listen to all of these shows below and also find additional information related to the series.

We have a grant from the Social Science Research Council in New York City which is funded through the University of Wisconsin’s Global Studies center and all of the area centers of the Division of International Studies. It’s a very challenging project. The Social Science Research Council expressed concern that many Americans seem to be ignorant of Islam and fearful of Islam in the years since 9/11. So they have given a number of universities the challenge of sharing the global knowledge base that the university has with the American public in the hope of diffusing the fearmongering and opening up the American mind, one might say, to a more nuanced and more pluralistic notion of who Muslims are, of what they believe, and of the whole idea of Islam as something that is very present in American life as well as throughout the world. So if you notice that we are not focusing on radical Islam it’s because that’s what the media usually focuses on. We’re trying to get away from the monolithic notion that Muslims are all radicals and Islam is only about jihad. (Jean Feraca, 16 February 2009)

Inside Islam Radio Shows (Topical Listing)

For chronological listing, click here.

Family, Gender, and Sexuality
›› Aisha: Muhammad’s Youngest Wife
›› Women in Iran: Raising the Roof
›› Love and Dating in the Muslim World
›› Women and Sharia
›› Honeymoon in Tehran
›› Muslim Next Door
›› Hidden Lives: The Women of Kandahar
›› Being Gay and Muslim
›› Daughters of Shame
›› Muhaja Babes: Meet the New Middle East
Politics and Law
›› Sunni, Shia, or Just Muslim?
›› Muslims in Europe
›› Instability in Iran
›› Witness in Palestine
›› Mumbai’s 9/11
›› Reaching Out to the Muslim World
›› Women and Sharia
›› Closing Guantanamo Bay
Books
›› Aisha: Muhammad’s Youngest Wife
›› Inside Pakistan: Real People, Real Lives
›› Daughters of Shame
›› Honeymoon in Tehran
›› Muslim Next Door
›› Engaging the Muslim World
›› Honeymoon in Tehran
›› To Choose or Not to Choose
›› Salman Rushdie
›› Sex and the Saudi
›› Muhaja Babes: Meet the New Middle East
Media and Film
›› Young Muslims and New Media
›› Football Under Cover
›› Being Gay and Muslim
Music, Food, and Culture
›› Ramadan: The Fast and the Feast
›› Arab Bodies
›› Taqwacores
›› Heavy Metal Islam
›› Halal Food: What Muslims Eat
Comparative Religion
›› Creationism Goes Global
›› Jim Wallis: New Interfaith Visions
US and the Muslim World
›› Obama’s Stance on Iran
›› How to Win a Cosmic War
›› Reaching Out to the Muslim World I
›› Reaching Out to the Muslim World II
›› Al America
›› Al Qaeda Insults Obama
›› Closing Guantanamo Bay
›› Being Young and Arab in America
›› Talking to Noam Chomsky
›› Engaging the Muslim World
›› Alaa al Aswany’s Chicago
›› Being Young and Arab in America
Asia
›› Women in Iran: Raising the Roof
›› Inside Pakistan: Real People, Real Lives
›› Mumbai’s 9/11
›› The Paradox of Modern Iran
›› Muhaja Babes: Meet the New Middle East
Global Perspectives
›› The Compelling Moment
›› Travel as a Political Act
›› How to Win a Cosmic War
›› What a Billion Muslims Really Think
›› Eco-Islam: The Greening of the Muslim World

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Last updated on October 27, 2009