Deep Dives with ISPU
Episodes
Stories, Stereotypes, and Structures That Shape Black Christian-Muslim Interfaith Relationships
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Communities can grow up together and still miss key pieces of each other’s stories. For Black Christians and Muslims, familiarity doesn’t always t...
Inside the Data: Unpacking the Findings from ISPU’s American Muslim Poll 2025
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The American Muslim story is constantly evolving — and ISPU’s American Muslim Poll has been tracking it for nearly a decade. In this episode of De...
Reimagining Healthcare with People-First Solutions
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ISPU’s research Access to Healthcare Among Arab and South Asian Muslims in Southeast Michigan: A Systems Approach offers a model for using a communi...
The Danger Islamophobia Poses to American Democracy
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Islamophobia doesn’t just harm Muslims–it endangers everyone. In the years since 9/11, policies driven by anti-Muslim sentiment have expanded gove...
After 2024, what’s next for Muslim voters?
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, American Muslim voters in swing states received unprecedented attention from mainstream me...
Latino Attitudes Toward American Muslims and Islam
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to demographic data from ISPU’s American Muslim Poll, 9% of Muslims in the United States are Latino, a steadily growing percentage. In pre...
Muslims in the U.S. Prison System: Demographics and Litigation
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode of Deep Dives with ISPU, Executive Director, Meira Neggaz, sits down with SpearIt, former ISPU Scholar and current professor of...
PART II: Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Native Americans are often invisible in our public discussion of America, and even more so in any discussion of Muslims in the United States. There is...
Banking while Muslim
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, Muslim individuals, businesses, and nonprofits have reported facing potentially discriminatory practices at some of the nation’s la...
How Muslims view causes of and solutions to climate change
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Deep Dives with ISPU, ISPU Executive Director Meira Neggaz, in conversation with Imam Saffet Catovic, a long-time US Muslim communi...
American Muslim Poll 2022: A Politics and Pandemic Status Report
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fielded between mid-February and mid-March, American Muslim Poll 2022: A Politics and Pandemic Status Report provides a snapshot of American Muslims a...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Ashley Wolford
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Xade Wharton-Ali
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Siddeeqah Sharif
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Ed Sanders
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Mahasin Salim
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Alethea Redclay
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Megan Kalk
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Sommer Itawi
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Sabrina Itawi
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Hussein Itawi
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Diana Itawi
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Kayla Cyrus
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Amor Crey
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Alyssa Crain
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: Dr. Maryam Blackeagle
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: LaTanya Barlow
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
Reclaiming the Narrative: David Ball
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions and Voices, the first publication from ISPU's Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories (NAIMS): Reclaiming the Narrative project, is...
The mental health of Muslim healthcare workers
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare systems, and the burden of care for the nearly unprecedented volume of pati...
20 years of ISPU: A conversation with the Executive Director and Co-founder
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
2022 marks 20 years of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)—20 years of research making an impact, of working towards an America...
Illinois Muslims: Needs, Assets, and Opportunities
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Illinois is one of the most diverse and representative states in the nation, encompassing communities of every race, class, and background. It is also...
Special Preview: American Muslim Poll 2022
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In August 2022, ISPU will release our 6th American Muslim Poll. After moving from an annual to biennial poll between 2020 and 2022, our research team ...
Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Deep Dives with ISPU, Director of Research Dalia Mogahed interviews ISPU Scholar Dr. Hadia Mubarak about her new book, Rebellious W...
Leadership qualities in nonprofit spaces: a "Nonprofit Nuggets" follow-up conversation
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the spring of 2021, ISPU Executive Director Meira Neggaz appeared on Nonprofit Nuggets, a podcast by former ISPU board member M. Gasby Brown, to di...
Creating accessible spaces for American Muslims with disabilities
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our 2020 American Muslim Poll, we found that one in three American Muslims has an immediate family member with a disability, which is roughly the s...
Musulmanes latinos: una comunidad en rápido crecimiento y adaptación (ESPAÑOL)
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cuando Jaime "Mujahid" Fletcher abrazó el Islam, le llamó la atención la falta de materiales en español sobre su fe. Junto con su padre ...
Latino Muslims: A swiftly growing and adapting community (ENGLISH)
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
*A NOTAR: Este episodio también está disponible en español y se puede encontrar aquí.---------When Jaime "Mujahid" Fletcher embraced Isl...
Exploring Native American and Indigenous Muslim Stories
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, ISPU welcomed Brennan McDaniel to the ISPU team as the primary investigator for a new study, Exploring Native American and Indigenous Muslim ...
"The Racial Muslim"
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Deep Dives with ISPU, Director of Research Dalia Mogahed interviews ISPU Scholar Dr. Sahar Aziz about her new book The Racial Muslim: Whe...
The unprecedented rise in American Muslim civic participation
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The years following the 2016 US presidential elections witnessed an unprecedented increase in Muslim American political candidacies. In her research, ...
Measuring the health impacts of anti-Muslim discrimination
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Individual experiences of anti-Muslim discrimination in the United States lead to significant impacts on health and well-being. Dr. Naheed Ahmed, our ...
The importance of research in Hollywood storytelling
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to inclusive storytelling, writers, directors, and film industry executives are well-served by using research to guide the authentic cra...
What makes humor Muslim?
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stand-up comedy is a performance art often associated with personal expressions of culture and identity. When examining the content of comedians like ...
The current state of American mosques
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When the US Mosque Survey was launched more than 20 years ago, mosques and Muslims in America were heavily discussed in the public square—but there ...
TRAILER: Deep Dives with ISPU
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Deep Dives with ISPU—a podcast by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization that ...