13 episodi
REP: A Story About the Stories We Tell At Your Service
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- Cultura e società
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5,0 • 2 valutazioni
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2023 Webby Nominee: Best Limited Series
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REP is a bold, wide-ranging podcast, brought to you by journalist Noor Tagouri.
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Noor began by examining the misrepresentation of Muslims in US media and how this impacts American culture. She discovered a fuller exploration of the ever-evolving story of America, which challenges the stories we've known...and reveals how the stories we tell affect all of us.
REP is a thoughtful investigation of our beliefs and understandings and how they exist within the dynamic of Politics, Pop Culture, and Public Opinion.
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This is a story about the stories we tell
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12. Free to Run (ft. 3 Afghan Women Runners)
Welcome back to REP. And more specifically – welcome to a guided REP Run. This is a story about what it means to stay in your body, to move through your life experiences, and for the women in this episode, what it really means to be Free.
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Our guides for this story are three runners from Afghanistan. It’s been two years since the women in this story have seen each other. Their separation was unexpected as the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, and they were of the lucky few who were able to evacuate. And they have miraculously reunited for the first time in the United States to run the New York City Marathon together.
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This chapter of REP is brought to you by Right To Run, the social impact program of the sportswear brand On. Right To Run supports Free to Run, an organization that works to change gender norms in conflict areas by supporting girls and women in leadership and wellness through running.
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Transcript + Links:
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11. Alive
“Vanished” is how we started the Rep journey, and “Alive” is how we start again.
In our final chapter, Rep comes ALIVE in a surprising connection Noor makes during an event at Harvard University.
This is the story of how our stories lead to revolutions.
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Story Guides include: Barbara Rosewicz, Dr. James Zogby, Jerry Seib, Tagouri family, Elyazgi family, and the ancestors.
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Transcripts are available at www.ays.media/rep-transcripts.
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10. The 3Ps: Public Opinion (ft. Bella Hadid on Palestine)
Politics, Pop Culture, and Public Opinion. We call them the 3Ps; and they are at play in the stories that define our world and shape our beliefs.
Featuring an exclusive interview with Bella Hadid, we consider how Public Opinion affects the lives of Palestinian people, as well as the rest of us. To examine how Public Opinion determines what we think and feel, we focus on Palestine, not as an issue, but as a people.
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Story Guides include: Bella Hadid, Aymann Ismail, Dr. James Zogby, Nadine Naber, Peter Beinart, and Dalia Mogahed.
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9. The 3Ps: Pop Culture (ft. Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam, Yuna, May Calamawy, and Minhal Baig)
What do musicians Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and Yuna, actor May Calamawy, and filmmaker Minhal Baig all have in common?
They are proof of what revolutionary representation can look like. These story guides have used their art forms to search for the deepest parts of themselves and connect their stories to the rest of the world. They show us what it can look like when we work to shift culture.
Welcome to the next "P" within the relationship between the 3P's: Politics, Pop Culture, and Public Opinion.
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8. The 3Ps: Politics (ft. Ilhan Omar, Isra Hirsi, Huma Abedin, and Yasmin Elhady)
I’d like to introduce you to our framework for REP, The 3Ps: Politics, Pop Culture, and Public Opinion.
The 3Ps are a tool we use to track the power dynamics in the stories around us. First Up: Politics.
We think we’re talking about Politics, but are we? How do we decode the stories that create the politics we are living in today? In this chapter, we follow a few people and the stories that have led them to engage with politics the way they do today.
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Our story guides include: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar; her daughter and activist Isra Hirsi; Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff; and Yasmin Elhady, a comedian and immigration lawyer at the Department of Justice.
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7. America’s Greatest Export
What is the United States’ *actual* greatest export?
We have a theory — Story.
In this chapter, we re-examine why the United States began, check in on how Americans are telling and receiving their story, why some veterans fought or refuse to fight for the story, and we hear from people around the world on their relationship with our Greatest Export.
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Story Guides include: Nadine Naber, David Eisenbach, Mike Prysner, Jack Saul, and others.
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Recensioni dei clienti
Storytelling at its finest
There’s a certain quality about the way Noor tells stories that is very tangible. You can literally feel what being connected means.
It comes very natural to be immersed in the story and that makes me feel very close to it.
It’s like some kind of catalyst for empathy and understanding.
Every episode has left me with new viewpoints to ponder on. On this episode for example I was amazed by the war veteran explaining that he had to go to war to protect the rights of his fellow citizens to protest against war.
Another amazing moment was learning about the connection between Christopher Columbus and the muslim world of that period (that’s something that you certainly don’t find in history books at school).
What I think is unique about Rep is the interviewing process. It’s very clear and clean. There’s no beating about the bush. Every question conveys what is needed to understand the topic that’s being discussed and I think this is what makes it possible to have sincere answers from the people being interviewed.
Can’t wait for future episodes
Muhamet Spahiu
thank you, thank you!
the most eye-opening and insightful podcast ever to exist for the muslim youth livng in the west