Ep. 87 Finding a Seat at the Table with Ayser Salman
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome Ayser Salman to The Stacks. Ayser is the author of The Wrong End of the Table a comedic memoir about her experiences as a Muslim Arab American woman just trying to fit in. We talk about finding your political voice, the privilege of passing, and if we've ever felt truly seen in a book.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I am your host Tracy Thomas and today |
| 0:14.0 | we have aeser Salmon. Aeser is the author of The Wrong End of the Table, her |
| 0:19.1 | mostly comedic memoir of growing up in the United States as a Muslim immigrant from Iraq and trying to |
| 0:24.7 | find a place where she could fit in. |
| 0:26.7 | Before we talk to Aeser, let's do a little housekeeping. |
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| 1:34.6 | it's time for our conversation with a Cesar Solon. All right you guys I am here today with aeser Salman she is an author her book is called |
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