Episode 390
Living the American Dream and Nightmare
w/Wajahat Ali
The purpose of CelesteTheTherapist is to help shift the way you think. Many times, we get stuck in a negative cycle and struggle with getting out. Celeste will interview guests from different backgrounds who empower people in different capacities.
In this episode of Celeste The Therapist Podcast, we get to know a voice of a Muslim Pakistani American, Wajahat Ali who is also a political commentator, Daily Beast columnist, author of Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American and The Domestic Crusaders, and former New York Times contributing op-ed writer.
As a national correspondent for Al Jazeera America, Wajahat shares his experience on living both the American dream and nightmare. This episode talks about what keeps him going and what has kept him going even after losing everything he had.
Know more about how it feels like to be ‘othered’ and listen to the numerous hats he wore. Stay tuned!
About Wajahat:
Wajahat Ali is a Muslim Pakistani American who shares what it’s like to be “othered”
Ali has worn many hats—as an author, intellectual, political commentator, columnist, public speaker, researcher, and parent of a toddler who survived cancer.
His poignant and entertaining memoir, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American, chronicles his experience growing up as a Muslim Pakistani American in the Bay Area. In it he shares what it’s like to be “othered” and what it means to navigate the unrealistically high expectations society places on immigrants and people of color.
And yet, even in this era of extreme partisanship and social turmoil, Ali is an optimist who hasn’t given up on his vision of a truly multicultural America.
Among his many accolades, Ali has served as a Daily Beast columnist, political commentator, TED speaker, and a former New York Times contributing op-ed writer.
He wrote The Domestic Crusaders, an award-winning play about Muslim Americans post-9/11, and he served as the lead researcher and author for Center for American Progress’s seminal report “Fear Inc., Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.”
As a national correspondent for Al Jazeera America, Ali shared stories of underrepresented voices—just like we do at DCP Entertainment.
Wajahat Ali embodies what it means to be American in the twenty-first century.
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