Rozina Ali's guest appearances

Rozina Ali

AAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & Literature

Time To Say Goodbye

Haymarket Books Live

Eugene Lim

Hua Hsu

Michelle Zauner

Rahul Mehta

Jia Tolentino

Will Harris

Fatimah Asghar

Yiyun Li

Charles Yu

Ross Douthat

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Kamila Shamsie

Mariam Ghani

Vivian Lee

Angela Davis

OwlTail

Hi from Obama’s third term!This week, we welcome the wonderful, brainy Rozi Ali, a journo friend who writes about Islamophobia and the US “war on terror.” We also dish about basketball and a kimchi-based spat between South Korea and China.1:10 – Why Rozi gave up on the Warriors.3:35 – Korea and China are fighting again. Over kimchi. Not sponsored content: the offending Li Ziqi video (kimchi at the 13:20 mark: judge for yourself!)17:45 – Biden started his presidency by reversing Trump-era actions on immigration, including the Muslim ban. Rozi puts these moves in context of foreign policy and the forever wars. Shout-out to the Quincy Institute and anti-war activism; plus: Jay and Rozi still don’t know who Fran Lebowitz is. 54:30 – The South Asian diaspora in the US tends to vote very Democratic, but some of its members have big blind spots around class concerns as well as the government in India. We discuss all this in the context of Arun Venugopal’s recent piece in The Atlantic, “The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism.”&gt;&gt;  If you’re free tonight, Tuesday, Jan. 26, join this US–Canada event on transnational “movement lawyering,” organized by TTSG friends. Tammy is in the mix: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/asian-american-asian-canadian-perspectives-on-movement-lawyering-tickets-135937527805 Thanks for tuning in and supporting us. Next time: lots of reader questions!We’re on Twitter way too much, at @ttsgpod. And on email: timetosaygoodbye@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit goodbye.substack.com/subscribe

Hi from Obama’s third term!This week, we welcome the <a href="https://typemediacenter.org/project/rozina-ali/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wonderful, brainy Rozi Ali</a>, a journo friend who writes about Islamophobia and the US “war on terror.” We also dish about basketball and a kimchi-based spat between South Korea and China.1:10 – Why Rozi gave up on the Warriors.3:35 – Korea and China <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/world/asia/south-korea-china-kimchi-paocai.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">are fighting</a> again. Over <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3117568/kimchi-wars-new-china-vs-korea-row-sparked" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kimchi</a>. Not sponsored content: <a href="https://youtu.be/B6bJ_vTslyo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the offending Li Ziqi video</a> (kimchi at the 13:20 mark: judge for yourself!)17:45 – Biden started his presidency by reversing Trump-era actions on immigration, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/muslim-ban-immigration-syria-iraq/2021/01/22/367bbb48-5a8f-11eb-a849-6f9423a75ffd_story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">including the Muslim ban</a>. Rozi puts these moves in context of foreign policy and the forever wars. Shout-out to the <a href="https://quincyinst.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quincy Institute</a> and anti-war activism; plus: Jay and Rozi still don’t know who Fran Lebowitz is. 54:30 – The South Asian diaspora in the US tends to vote very Democratic, but some of its members have big blind spots around class concerns as well as the government in India. We discuss all this in the context of Arun Venugopal’s recent piece in The Atlantic, “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-making-of-a-model-minority/617258/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism</a>.”&gt;&gt; If you’re free tonight, Tuesday, Jan. 26, join this US–Canada event on transnational “movement lawyering,” organized by TTSG friends. Tammy is in the mix: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/asian-american-asian-canadian-perspectives-on-movement-lawyering-tickets-135937527805" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/asian-american-asian-canadian-perspectives-on-movement-lawyering-tickets-135937527805</a> Thanks for tuning in and supporting us. Next time: lots of reader questions!We’re on Twitter way too much, at @ttsgpod. And on email: timetosaygoodbye@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://goodbye.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">goodbye.substack.com/subscribe</a>

Kimchi nationalism, Biden on immigration and foreign policy, and Desi identities with Rozina Ali

Hirsh Sawhney

In 2017, we hosted novelists Kamila Shamsie and Hirsh Sawhney, both writers who released new novels about South Asian families fractured in the diaspora. Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire takes Sophocles’s classic tragedy Antigone as the starting point for her novel about political tensions in the War on Terror and the way it impacts Muslim families in the West. Hirsh Sawhney’s debut novel South Haven illustrates how grief complicates and splinters intimacy in an Indian-American family. The two authors read from their work, and talk with journalist Rozina Ali about power structures, American Empire in literature, the collective grief following Partition in 1947, the rise of Hindu fundamentalism, as well as speak to America’s complicity in the formation of ISIS, and debunk myths on the War on Terror. The authors also do a deep dive on craft, and discuss authenticity and the responsible imagination; as well as how to control (and not control) when your audience misreads your writing.

In 2017, we hosted novelists Kamila Shamsie and Hirsh Sawhney, both writers who released new novels about South Asian families fractured in the diaspora. Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire takes Sophocles’s classic tragedy Antigone as the starting point for her novel about political tensions in the War on Terror and the way it impacts Muslim families in the West. Hirsh Sawhney’s debut novel South Haven illustrates how grief complicates and splinters intimacy in an Indian-American family. The two authors read from their work, and talk with journalist Rozina Ali about power structures, American Empire in literature, the collective grief following Partition in 1947, the rise of Hindu fundamentalism, as well as speak to America’s complicity in the formation of ISIS, and debunk myths on the War on Terror. The authors also do a deep dive on craft, and discuss authenticity and the responsible imagination; as well as how to control (and not control) when your audience misreads your writing.

Subjects of Interest (ft. Kamila Shamsie, Hirsh Sawhney, & Rozina Ali)