Hey guys, I'm Amadali Akbar, and this is See Something, Say Something, the BuzzFeed show where we drink jai, tell stories, and talk about being Muslim in America.

This is episode two of our little mini series about alcohol.

And in this one, we're going to be talking to somebody who has a very different relationship culturally to drinking than I do.

If you see something, you better, you better say something.

Nothing at all, nothing at all.

Our last episode was about alcohol and trying to figure out what was the history of the relationship between Islamic law, Islamic poetry, and the issue of alcohol and the relationship over history.

It's a complicated topic, alcohol,

and I really wanted us to tackle it from different angles

and get a lot of different opinions and experiences.

So we're going to be releasing a few mini episodes about this.

And in this one, I wanted to talk about some of the way culture expresses

or different relationship to alcohol and speak with the way culture expresses or different relationship to alcohol

and speak with someone who had a very different relationship growing up Muslim to alcohol

and to their culture. So to help me talk about that, I've invited Arnessa Balushmish Gostura,

who is a writer, analyst, and community organizer.

Her book, Letters from Diaspora, Stories of War, and Its After-Aft,

is a collection of short stories about Bosnians after the genesis.

Welcome, Arnessa.

Hi, Ahmed. How are you doing today? I'm good. How are you?

I'm doing good. Just finishing up with another long day of work and organizing and grad school.

So I got done.

By organizing, you mean like community organizing?

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