Episode 573: Rozina Ali
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Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont.”)

“I think it’s very, very important to speak to people as people. To speak to sources—even if you have the juiciest story—to really give them the grace. I think everyone deserves it, especially people who are going through such a difficult time.”

Show notes:

• @rozina_ali)

• rozina-ali.com)

• Ali’s New York Times archive)

• 16:00 “The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi”) (New Yorker • Jan 2017)

• 17:00 “The ‘Herald Square Bomber’ Who Wasn’t”) (New York Times Magazine • April 2021)

• 25:00 “Marijuana Comes to Coalinga”) (The Nation • Nov 2018)

• 29:00 “‘How Did This Man Think He Had the Right to Adopt This Baby?’”) (New York Times Magazine • Nov 2022)

• 43:00 “The Afghan Women Left Behind”) (New Yorker • Aug 2022)

• 46:00 “What Rashida Tlaib Represents”) (New York Times Magazine • March 2022)

• 61:00 “The ISIS Beat”) (The Drift • April 2021)

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