S9, Ep2 How to Fail: Mohsin Zaidi

Before becoming a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, and one of the most widely read poets on Instagram, Nikita worked as a cleaner and carer while sharing her poetry online. She moved from New Delhi to Britain in her early twenties to study for a master's degree at the Uni ...  Show more

Miquita Oliver is a podcaster, TV presenter and all-round brilliant woman. She was just 16 when she burst onto our screens co-hosting Channel 4’s cult music show Popworld alongside Simon Amstell. Twenty-five years later, she’s still one of Britain’s most distinctive broadcasters ...  Show more

My guest today is Hashi Mohamed, one of the UK’s leading barristers, a BBC broadcaster and author on social mobility in Britain. His book is out now, called People Like Us. He is one of 12 children, Hashi came to the UK as an unaccompanied child refugee from Kenya in the summer o ...  Show more

Mobeen Azhar investigates life in gay, urban Pakistan and finds out what it's really like to be gay in Pakistan. 

Zoya Biglary joins Mal on the conversation couch to share her struggles with fitting in, coming out to her conservative Persian parents, and defying cultural expectations. Even though Zoya forgot to bring a piece of fruit, she peels back the layers of trauma and challenges that m ...  Show more

In this powerful episode of After Maghrib, Sayed Jawad Elhassan joins us once again to explore deep issues affecting Muslim communities today — from spiritual resilience in secular environments to the misuse of religion in family dynamics. We also discuss raising children with lo ...  Show more