Hey everybody, it's John. I'm excited to tell you that we're gearing up for

Seen on Radio, season 8, which is coming May 27th. It's an eight-part series called The News.

We're going to explore the overlapping crises faced by America's News and Information System,

and how that journalism crisis is intertwined with the other

huge problems that we seem unable or unwilling to solve in this country. The news brings back

our old friend, Chenjerai Kumunika, as co-host, Chenjerai of seasons two and four. Can't wait to share this season with you all.

Please watch this space, subscribe if you haven't, and spread the word. Over the next few weeks,

though, we're going to share some other really good shows with you. Today, an episode from a new

podcast that I find fascinating and well-made.

More Muslim is a narrative audio documentary series about the Muslim experience in all its complexity.

It's made by a majority Muslim team of reporters who've worked for the New York Times, Al Jazeera,

Radio Lab, and More Perfect. And every episode is a transhistorical journey into one aspect of the

Muslim world that most of us have never heard told this way. The episode you're about to hear

follows reporter Aena Khan, a foreign correspondent who covered

conflict zones for the Guardian and Al Jazeera. She got so burned out after Gaza that she packed her

life into a storage locker and moved to Cape Town to report on a Muslim community that she'd only

recently learned about.

We all know about the transatlantic trade that brought kidnapped and enslaved Africans to the Americas.

But Aena had no idea that around the same time, Dutch colonizers were deporting Indonesians in chains to South Africa.

Aena tells their story of resistance and survival that brought them through centuries

of colonialism and oppression. But now that same community is facing another threat, gentrification.

Here's the episode.

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