Anousheh Ansari grows up looking up at the moon and the stars, never expecting to one day float among them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Imam Khalil Abdur Rashid’s father gifts him a family heirloom at his college graduation -- a watch that ends up putting its new owner’s life at stake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Alex Fox grows up glued to her mom, and unsure of her relationship to her dad. But after a difficult childhood, she tries to change that dynamic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

French athlete, Tariq Abdul-Wahad is thrilled to get invited to a prestigious college basketball camp in the United States... Then he gets stranded at the airport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Wai Wai Nu bonds with her dad by listening to the radio together, but in 1990’s Burma, this is considered a crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Away at college, Amrou Al-Kadhi find themselves without supervision for the first time and decides to step out onto the stage as a drag performer. They never expect to be confronted with their own biases, though. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Malala Yousafzai is the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, but her early success as an activist placed her in a world of serious (and much older) professionals. Which is why, when Malala gets into college, she is determined to make friends her own age and show them a new side of her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com…

Sumayya Usmani rebels against her parents by getting a boyfriend, but ends up finding a freedom within her own family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Enes Kanter recounts a game of one-on-one from when he was a kid that would determine his entire future as an athlete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Imagine the legendary tabla virtuoso and composer, Zakir Hussain, getting boo-ed off stage. Well, it happened, and it made him into the artist he is today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Halima Aden’s “the new kid” in a small, Midwestern elementary school. After years of bullying, she finally snaps, leading to a moment that changes the trajectory of her life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Eight-year-old Sophia Mohammad is excited about her little sister being born, until it actually happens and she realizes her mom’s attentions are elsewhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

As an English Literature professor during the Iranian Revolution, Azar Nafisi forms a close friendship with a student. Years later, she receives some painful news that puts this friendship into a whole new context. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Alsarah wants desperately to be a musician but suffers from debilitating stage fright. Then, she meets a man named Haig who takes her under his wing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Fawzia Mirza and Sonal are best friends, and it seems like nothing can tear them apart. But when Sonal leaves the country for med school, Fawzia makes a huge mistake that could jeopardize their relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

After a devastating breakup, Yuna Zara'ai — a gigantic pop star — meets a local dance instructor who teaches her more than just a few hip hop moves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

In high school, Latif Nasser thinks science is boring. But all his notions are challenged during a scuba diving excursion with his high school classmates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Jewher Ilham is close to her dad, an Uyghur professor and human rights advocate. But her dismissal of his concerns about the Chinese government is challenged after a terrifying incident at the Beijing International Airport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

As the stress of career goals and inter-family turmoil compounds, Ever-The-Rule-Follower Salma Hindy needs a way to get out of her head. The solution? Shrooms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Moving to the U.S. from Iran as a kid is hard, so Arya Ghavamian tries to relate to his new American friends by playing them some Iranian pop music. But they don’t get it, and Arya determines that Iranian music is “lame”...until one special night at a bar in NYC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Growing up in a “sweary” household, Nadiya Hussain learns how to drop F-bombs -- in private, of course -- from the best. But the day she swears in front of her dad, she learns a lesson that will stick with her for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Rapper Muhammad “Mvstermind” Austin finds out his partner is pregnant, and decides to prepare himself for fatherhood with a new routine. The routine grounds him, until its power is tested one morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Higher Ground

Welcome to the second season of Tell Them, I Am. Celebrate Ramadan 2021 with host Misha Euceph as she features stories from 22 special guests, including Enes Kanter, Halima Aden, Yuna, Malala Yousafzai and Zakir Hussain. The voices are all Muslim, the stories are universal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Disease. How to define it? How can we understand its meaning within the Natural order and in our lives? What lessons can we learn from it?

Mysticism is essential in all the spiritual traditions, and especially in Islam with Sufism. We study here its definition, its objectives, as well as the means, the obstacles and the conditions for the realization of this quest for the invisible, the soul and the Divine. It takes faith, patience, humility, and a lot of love. Tariq Ramadan…

Suffering is a central and complex notion. What is its source, what is its meaning? Should we live with it, should we refuse it or should we go beyond it? Five fundamental teachings.

The notion of pilgrimage inhabits all spiritual and religious traditions. It invites us to recognize the sacredness of life and nature and opposes this truncated idea of ​​secularization, consecrating the desacralization of the world, and our loss. Tariq Ramadan