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Episode 573: Rozina Ali

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Episode 573: Rozina Ali

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2024/03/20
Longform

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2024/03/20
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Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont.” “I think it’s very, very important to speak to people as...

Highlights

Rozina Ali, an award-winning journalist and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, discusses her approach to storytelling at the intersection of identity, power, and empathy.
06:17
She didn't view journalism as an industry until recently; after college, she took jobs that combined her interests.
16:00
They didn't have a strategy—just wrote when they had something to say
20:24
The case shows how the legal system can be manipulated to serve an ideology
25:00
Americans must think about government power to take away civil liberties in the name of national security
41:49
The journalist saw the Afghanistan withdrawal as a collapse of the myth of a U.S.-propped-up government and reflected on 20 years of havoc inflicted on millions of families.
43:05
The term 'terrorist' has lost meaning due to overuse
52:41
The story was about the students and their identity—not the shooting
1:04:18
The Israel-Palestine War has both affirmed my research on Islamophobia and been a shocking display of dehumanization

Chapters

Rozina Ali on Journalism, Identity, and Narrative Complexity
00:00
“The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi” (New Yorker • Jan 2017)
16:00
“The ‘Herald Square Bomber’ Who Wasn’t” (New York Times Magazine • April 2021)
17:00
“Marijuana Comes to Coalinga” (The Nation • Nov 2018)
25:00
“‘How Did This Man Think He Had the Right to Adopt This Baby?’” (New York Times Magazine • Nov 2022)
29:00
“The Afghan Women Left Behind” (New Yorker • Aug 2022)
43:00
“What Rashida Tlaib Represents” (New York Times Magazine • March 2022)
46:00
“The ISIS Beat” (The Drift • April 2021)
1:01:00

Transcript

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