[Unedited] Rami Nashashibi with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Rami Nashashibi is founder and executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN). He is a visiting assistant professor of Sociology of Religion and Muslim Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Rami Nashashibi — A New Coming Together.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	This is OnBeings Unheard Cuts.
0:01.9	I'm Prista Tippet.
0:03.1	You're listening to my unedited conversation with Rami Nasha Shibi.
0:06.9	He's the executive director of the inner city Muslim Action Network in Chicago.
0:11.8	Download the MP3 of the produced show with Rami Nasha Shibi at onbeing.org.
0:21.8	Thank you. There's that train whistle I let come to love so much.
0:27.1	What is it? What is it?
0:29.9	A boat. Okay. See?
0:33.1	I don't live near boats.
0:36.7	All right. We have a hard stop today at 315, which is going to be difficult.
0:40.4	So I'm going to plunge right in.
0:44.3	I first met Rami Nasha Shibi, not in person, but his voice coming into my head through headphones.
0:51.1	Just a few months after September 11, 2001.
0:54.9	I think it was January 2002.
0:57.5	And we wanted to put together a program on the problem of evil.
1:01.4	Evil was a word that had entered our political and military vocabulary in a big way.
1:07.1	And I wanted to talk about evil and talk about it in terms of what our religious traditions know
1:16.2	about this so that maybe we in our public life could use this word more meaningfully.
1:22.4	And I discovered Rami Nasha Shibi, a Muslim who was working or facing despair and what some might
1:31.1	call evil in a very American context, working with kids and their families struggling with poverty,
1:38.6	addiction, and crime in the inner city of Chicago.
1:42.4	And I still so vividly remember Rami just very reflectively and movingly talking to me about
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