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About
More Muslim is a sound-rich, cinematic narrative podcast telling deeply reported stories about Muslims across the world. Each episode is a mix of interviews, field reporting, history, and research, all scored to original music. Our first season is a production of Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women and is focused on covering some of the most interesting stories in the Muslim world through the lived experiences of Muslim women.
The Team
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Dr. Sohaira Siddiqui
Host
Dr. Sohaira Siddiqui is the Executive Director of Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women, and a Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. For the past two decades, she has been researching and writing about Islamic law and Islamic political thought. This has led to many awards and recognitions, and most recently she was named one of the 500 most influential Muslims in 2026. In conversations with many Muslims over the years, she found them asking the same questions that prompted her to do a PhD in the first place. Armed with years of queries, she is setting out in the podcast to explore how to navigate the new spaces and questions Muslims find themselves in everyday.
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Salman Ahad Khan
Executive Producer and Managing Editor
Salman Ahad Khan is the Executive Producer and Managing Editor for More Muslim. He has worked as a reporter, producer, and sound designer on some of the decade's most celebrated podcasts, including The Atlantic and WNYC Studios' The Experiment, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and Mother Jones, Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History, and more. His work on the critically acclaimed history podcast More Perfect earned recognition on The New York Times’ and New York Magazine’s "Best Podcasts of 2023” lists, while his reporting on maternal health in Gaza for Reveal won Gold for Best Documentary at the 2024 Signal Awards.
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Tanita Rahmani
Producer
Tanita Rahmani is an Indonesian audio producer and documentary filmmaker based in New York City. Trained as a lawyer with an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, she produces long-form narrative and investigative audio for outlets including Campside Media, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Foreign Policy magazine. She is an alumna of the UnionDocs CoLab Fellowship (2021–2022) and was named a 2023 New Voices producer by the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR).
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Taqwa Sadiq
Producer
Taqwa Sadiq is a multi-award-winning audio producer-presenter and documentary storyteller whose work has featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Sounds, the BBC World Service, and more. She was named Best New Producer at the Audio Production Awards 2024; and her BBC series, ’Sacred Money’ won both Best Specialist Podcast and Silver, Best Business Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2024. Her work has been praised in The Observer, Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and more. Taqwa also received second prize at the Sheffield Doc/Fest Whicker’s PodPitch 2023 and the Charles Parker Prize 2022.
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Alexander Overington
Technical Director
Alexander Overington is a composer, producer, & sound designer from New York City. His music can be heard across the airwaves and on podcasts via Radiolab, 2 Dope Queens, New York Times’ The Daily, Nancy, & Radiolab Presents: More Perfect, where as technical director his work received a Webby Award for “Best Sound Design/Musical Score”. Before joining More Perfect, Alex co-created and produced the Peabody Award-winning podcast Meet the Composer for New York Public Radio’s WQXR.
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Sarah Qari
Consulting Editor
Sarah Qari is a journalist and audio producer whose work spans Radiolab, More Perfect, and On the Media. She was a lead producer on The Other Latif, a six-part Radiolab series about Guantanamo Bay that won a duPont-Columbia Award, and has reported on everything from Supreme Court rulings to international hostage crises. Fluent in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and English, Sarah brings a global lens to stories about law, identity, and power. She studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University and approaches each story with deep curiosity, precision, and care.
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Heba Elorbany
Fact Checker
Heba Elorbany is the former executive producer of audio and podcasts at The Los Angeles Times. Elorbany joined The Times in July 2021 as a senior producer, focusing on development of new podcasts as well as creating “Asian Enough” and “The Envelope.” Prior to The Times, she produced podcasts for the New York Times, Slate, Buzzfeed and Gimlet and live events for Radio Ambulante and PRX. Elorbany is also a documentary filmmaker and her most recent film, “An Act of Worship,” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2022. She is an alumna of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
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Lina Jaradat
Illustrator
Lina Jaradat is an illustrator based in Amman, Jordan, whose work blends narrative storytelling with a close attention to subtle, often overlooked details. Her illustrations engage themes of social issues, politics, and science, guided by a desire to contribute to thoughtful, meaningful public conversations. She has worked with international publications including Politico Europe, The Economist, La Croix L’Hebdo, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and Al Majalla, and her work has been recognized by major global illustration competitions such as the World Illustration Awards, Society of Illustrators New York, 3×3, Hiii Illustration Awards, and American Illustration.
Contributing Reporters and Producers
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Rowaida Abdelaziz
Contributing Reporter
Rowaida Abdelaziz is an investigative journalist based between Cairo and New York City, focusing on immigration, politics, and social justice issues. Her reporting has led to policy changes, reopened hate crime cases, and reunited families. Previously, she was a senior reporter at HuffPost, where she spearheaded coverage of Islamophobia and its intersections with politics, culture, and gender. Her work has been recognized with several awards, including the 2024 Wilbur Award of Excellence and the 2022 Goldziher Award.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Contributing Reporter
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese author, screenwriter and award-winning social advocate. A former mechanical engineer, Yassmin has published five books, including essay collection Talking About A Revolution (PRH, 2022) and two novels for younger readers, You Must Be Layla (Puffin, 2020) and the award-winning Listen, Layla (Puffin, 2021). She has most recently signed a two book deal with Hachette UK for teen series, The Hidden Legacy and has a forthcoming adult novel. In 2024, Yassmin was selected for the coveted ITV Original Voices placement, joining the team on acclaimed British Continuing Drama, Emmerdale. Yassmin’s commentary has appeared in the Observer Magazine, TIME, New Lines, Guardian, The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Vogue.
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Heba Afify
Contributing Producer
Heba Afify is a Cairo-based journalist and podcaster with 15 years of experience. She has bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, and Mada Masr, where she was a co-founder. She has covered regional news for The Associated Press and reported from the streets during some of Egypt’s most pivotal moments. Heba previously served as managing editor at the Kerning Cultures podcast network before co-founding Nuwah Media Consultancy, where she collaborates with global partners on podcast production and consulting.
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Najib Aminy
Contributing Producer
Najib Aminy is a producer for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and host of the independent podcasts Some Noise and This is Your Birthday. Previously, he was an editor at Flipboard and has reported for newspapers such as Newsday and The Indianapolis Star. His work at Reveal has earned him the George Polk Award, two Edward R. Murrow awards, two Gerald Loeb awards, multiple Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, and recognition as a DuPont-Columbia finalist.
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Anisa Khalifa
Contributing Editor
Anisa Khalifa is an award-winning producer and host at WUNC North Carolina Public Radio, leading the show The Broadside. She has also produced the independent shows Me and My Muslim Friends, CREEP, Tested, and Dating While Gray. Her work often explores themes of identity, culture, and community.
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Aina J. Khan
Contributing Reporter
Aina J. Khan is a London-based journalist, writer and presenter who has worked for The New York Times, Middle East Eye, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera English. Her work has taken her around the world to the occupied West Bank, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, the U.S., Senegal, and the island of Zanzibar. In 2021, she became the first international fellow at The New York Times. She is currently a contributing reporter for AJ+.
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Nadeen Shaker
Contributing Reporter and Producer
Nadeen Shaker is an Egyptian reporter and producer. Her work has appeared in New Lines Magazine, Vice News, Le Monde Diplomatique, and the Middle East Report, covering topics such as human rights, environmental issues, and cultural politics in the Middle East. She was previously a producer at Kerning Cultures and a senior editor for The Cairo Review of Global Affairs.
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Cadar Mohamud
Contributing Reporter
Cadar Mohamud is a Somali-Canadian storyteller and founder of The Digital Sisterhood, a podcast amplifying the voices of Muslim women around the world. Since its 2021 launch, the show has reached listeners in over 150 countries and earned recognition at the Shorty Awards. Through powerful, personal storytelling, Mohamud creates space for nuanced conversations on faith, identity, and womanhood.
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Catherine Boulle
Contributing Producer
Catherine Boulle is an audio producer and journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She makes documentaries on a wide range of subjects, but with a focus on memory and violence, and the ways in which past traumas – both personal and political – continue to inform and haunt the present. With collaborator Bongani Kona, she won the 2023 Sheffield DocFest Podcast Pitch and the 2021 Whickers Radio & Audio Funding Award for Time, Paper, Bone, and most recently she was shortlisted for a 2026 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for her BBC Radio 4 documentary Robben Island’s Hallelujah.