Hey everyone, I'm Amadale Yuckbert, and this is See Something Say Something.

We're continuing our mini series on Muslims on TV with a conversation with the people behind Isabel L'Bria, a web series made with an anti-racist model.

Some people, like they've attended some of our workshops, and when we talk about a microaggression they've

pointed out scenes from the series like that time farhad did so so to have this show be a point

of reference for people to understand microaggressions that within itself was like coming back full

circle something you better you better say something, nothing at all, nothing at all.

So Isav Libria was made as a collaboration between Break the Room and the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative.

It's produced by Paul Feig's Powderkeg Media.

You may know Feig from his work on bridesmaids, freaks and geeks, and the Ghostbusters remake.

Issa Vlbria tracks the untold stories of L.A.

through the lives of two very different Muslim women from working class backgrounds, Aisha, a black Muslim, and her Bangladeshi American roommate Farha. There's also a

cafe at the center of the story that's a point of gentrification and class conflict run by their

Latinx friend Moises. Sister, hi. We have prayer lessons every Thursday morning. Help converts with Salat. I'm not a convert. I was born Muslim. Yes, yes, we were all born Muslim. Come Thursday, your Salat doesn't count. It's a web series shot natively to Instagram's format, and it's only 60 minutes. I'd encourage you, if you're interested, before, during, or after, to take a watch, and let me know what you think. We'll link to it in the episode description. So we talk to Samir Gardesi and Margueria Aziza, the creator and anti-racist consultant who helped make the show. Our bonus episode on Patreon this month will be with Samir and Margueri talking about Rami and their reactions to it as people who've worked in Hollywood. I'm joined by Samir Gardazi. He's a screenwriter, producer, and founder, CEO of Break the Room. And I'm also joined by Marguerie Aziza. She's the co-founder and programming director of Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative and a consultant for Break the Room and East of LaBria. Welcome to the show again, guys. Both of you have been on before.

Thank you. Thank you for having us.

So, you know, Samir and I talked quite a while back about Break the Room and the work

around representation.

And you two have sort of collaborated to put together this series, East of Libria, that it came out with

Powder Keg Productions. You can catch it on Instagram and a whole bunch of other platforms,

which follows the life of two young Muslim women and is definitely reflective of the work

the two of you have been doing. So let's start, like, let's just start

with the idea of Issa Vlbria before we go into all the thought and process that went to

putting together the writer's room and casting it and all that. How do you sell East of LaBria and

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