Arab Talk with Jess & Jamal
Hosted by Jamal and Jess · News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
4.9from 27 ratings
- 400
- Episodes
- 113
- Transcribed
- 27
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 146K
- YouTube views
About Arab Talk with Jess & Jamal
Arab Talk with Jess and Jamal brings news and analysis of the Arab World and Middle East, as well as issues affecting the Arab American community. Arab Talk broadcasts live every Thursday from 2-3 PM/PT on KPOO, 89.5FM San Francisco. Follow us on Twitter @ArabTalk Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/arab-talk-with-jess-jamal/id1244474570?mt=2
- Publisher
- News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Jun 2017
- Latest episode
- 25 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
113 of 400 episodes have a transcript.
25 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Weaponizing Islamophobia
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Inside a recent episode
Weaponizing Islamophobia
Published 25 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So it is a form of racism. While Islam is not a religion, Muslims are often racialized with specific biological markers and cultural markers, rendering them primarily under the stereotypes of being violent, misogynistic, uncivilized, and so on and so forth. And the roots of Islamophobia are deep. You can trace this back to the Crusades. When the Catholic Church needed to rally support to, you know, quote, win back the Holy Land from Muslims. And they used Christian theologians, you know, framed Islam as a false heretical religion and framed the Prophet Muhammad as a false prophet. And much of the stereotypes that we have today kind of originated among Christian theologians during this time period. and the Catholic Church, which promoted that Islam and Muslims were predisposed to violence, were also uniquely misogynistic and sexually deviant, and followers, again, of a false religion. […]
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- Mobashra Tazamal
- Ronnie Barkan
- Oren Ziv
- Xavier Abu Eid
- Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 146,003
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 22 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100
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- Quality
- 71
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 90
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Who hosts Arab Talk with Jess & Jamal?
Jamal and Jess host the show. Published by News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam.
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Does Arab Talk with Jess & Jamal take guests?
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