Dec 31, 2022
Like us, you know her, you love her as Zari Tarazi on Legends of Tomorrow, it's Tala Ashe on the podcast! Mae has a riveting conversation with Tala on her life and career, her time as Zari on Legends, what she learned about herself playing the role, her theater roles in the SWANA plays English and The Vagrant Trilogy,...
Nov 30, 2022
We welcome Zaina onto the podcast for us to review The Swimmers! Yusra and Sara Mardini are two real-life Syrian refugee sisters whose riveting and raw story has now been put to the screen in Sally El Hosaini's The Swimmers, streaming now on Netflix. How well does the story do at conveying the visceral experience...
Nov 2, 2022
We welcome Iranian-American actress Kathreen Khavari on the podcast! Kathreen is an esteemed actress and voice actress whose roles include Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan in various Marvel animated series, Badyah in Netflix's hit series Dead End: Paranormal Park, and the upcoming Nickelodeon series Transformers: AllSpark....
Oct 26, 2022
We welcome Hanna back on the podcast for us to review Black Adam together! The Rock has finally arrived as Black Adam in the DCU. But does he really "change the hierarchy" of the universe that much? How well did the film do at portraying the fictionalized SWANA/MENA country of Kahndaq, and was this film good SWANA/MENA...
Oct 11, 2022
We welcome Hanna back on the podcast to discuss her new debut book "Strong Female Character"! We discuss Hanna's process of writing her autobiography through the lens of film, the state of SWANA representation today compared to when she was growing up how she approaches her work as a critic, what films she...