HeyJaredSawt by Shahd
Hosted by sociologist Shahd Alasaly, SAWT is a podcast rooted in one belief: stories only hold power when they are told by the people who live them.
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The secret FBI file that proves you're being watched right now (opens the original)
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In this episode, Shahd Alasaly and Dima Abuolim sit down with anthropologist David Price, author of The American Surveillance State, to unpack decades of previously unseen FBI files and what they reveal about who America's surveillance machine was really built to watch. Together they trace how the surveillance state was normalized after 9/11, why the FBI targeted civil rights activists, Muslim groups, union organizers, and peace activists instead of criminals, and how the Patriot Act dismantled
The One Question That Save A Life (opens the original)
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In this episode, Shahd Alasaly sits down with Clara Reynolds, President of the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, to talk about what crisis and trauma really look like behind the scenes. Together they explore the hidden pressures that can push people to a breaking point, why high-achieving students and adults can be struggling without anyone realizing it, and how trauma can ripple through families and entire communities. Clara shares what decades of crisis work have taught her about listening without j
SAWT Podcast | The Story Of Uyghur Resilience Explained: Abdulweli's Journey (opens the original)
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In this episode, Shahd Alasaly sits down with Abdulwali, a Uyghur writer, educator, and documenter whose family's story stretches across generations of resistance. From his grandfather serving in the First East Turkestan Republic of 1933, to his father imprisoned for ten years for owning Russian books, to his own arrest and 15 months of interrogation in 2013, Abdulweli shares a testimony that spans nearly a century of the same erasure repeating itself. Along the way, they talk about the family b
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