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American Muslims: A History Revealed

A Portrait of Freedom

Saturday
May 2

7:00 pm

30 Minutes

Even before the United States is founded, tens of thousands of Muslims are already here, captured in West Africa and brought to colonial America in chains; Asma Khalid tells the story of one of these people.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

Islam at the Nation's Founding

Saturday
May 2

7:30 pm

30 Minutes

Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Qur'an; George Washington owned enslaved people who were Muslim; a Muslim diplomat breaks his Ramadan fast in the White House in 1805.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

A Portrait of Freedom

Monday
May 4

5:00 am

30 Minutes

Even before the United States is founded, tens of thousands of Muslims are already here, captured in West Africa and brought to colonial America in chains; Asma Khalid tells the story of one of these people.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

Islam at the Nation's Founding

Monday
May 4

5:30 am

30 Minutes

Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Qur'an; George Washington owned enslaved people who were Muslim; a Muslim diplomat breaks his Ramadan fast in the White House in 1805.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

Is This One of America's First Mosques?

Friday
May 8

3:00 pm

30 Minutes

Among the millions of immigrants arriving in the United States at the turn of the 20th century were thousands of Muslims from Lebanon, then part of Greater Syria; host Aymann Ismail tells the story of two of these people.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

From Slavery to Freedom: The Untold Story of America's First Muslims

Friday
May 8

3:30 pm

30 Minutes

Even before the United States is founded, tens of thousands of Muslims are already here, captured in West Africa and brought to colonial America in chains; Asma Khalid tells the story of one of these people.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

A Muslim in the Civil War

Saturday
May 9

7:00 pm

30 Minutes

Malika Bilal tells the recently discovered story of Muhammad Kahn, an immigrant from Afghanistan who traveled to the United States in 1861, fought in the Union Army and left behind a 200-page pension file.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

A Mosque on the Prairies

Saturday
May 9

7:30 pm

30 Minutes

Among the millions of immigrants arriving in the United States at the turn of the 20th century were thousands of Muslims from Lebanon, then part of Greater Syria; host Aymann Ismail tells the story of two of these people.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

Is This One of America's First Mosques?

Saturday
May 9

11:00 pm

30 Minutes

Among the millions of immigrants arriving in the United States at the turn of the 20th century were thousands of Muslims from Lebanon, then part of Greater Syria; host Aymann Ismail tells the story of two of these people.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

From Slavery to Freedom: The Untold Story of America's First Muslims

Saturday
May 9

11:30 pm

30 Minutes

Even before the United States is founded, tens of thousands of Muslims are already here, captured in West Africa and brought to colonial America in chains; Asma Khalid tells the story of one of these people.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

Fighting for Freedom: The Little-Known Story of Muslims and the Civil War

Sunday
May 10

12:00 am

30 Minutes

Malika Bilal tells the recently discovered story of Muhammad Kahn, an immigrant from Afghanistan who traveled to the United States in 1861, fought in the Union Army and left behind a 200-page pension file.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

A Muslim in the Civil War

Monday
May 11

5:00 am

30 Minutes

Malika Bilal tells the recently discovered story of Muhammad Kahn, an immigrant from Afghanistan who traveled to the United States in 1861, fought in the Union Army and left behind a 200-page pension file.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

A Mosque on the Prairies

Monday
May 11

5:30 am

30 Minutes

Among the millions of immigrants arriving in the United States at the turn of the 20th century were thousands of Muslims from Lebanon, then part of Greater Syria; host Aymann Ismail tells the story of two of these people.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

Fighting for Freedom: The Little-Known Story of Muslims and the Civil War

Friday
May 15

3:00 pm

30 Minutes

Malika Bilal tells the recently discovered story of Muhammad Kahn, an immigrant from Afghanistan who traveled to the United States in 1861, fought in the Union Army and left behind a 200-page pension file.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

How South Asian Muslims and Mexican Americans United in the 1920s

Friday
May 15

3:30 pm

30 Minutes

Asma Khalid travels to the American Southwest to tell the story of Mir Dad, a Muslim man from South Asia who comes to the U.S. in 1917 and marries a Mexican-American woman on the California-Arizona border in the early years of the 20th century.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

A New Hope for Freedom

Saturday
May 16

7:00 pm

30 Minutes

Malika Bilal, Senior Presenter, Al Jazeera English, tells the story of early Black American Muslim communities through a woman named Florence Watts, who moved to the bustling South Side of Chicago around 1910.
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American Muslims: A History Revealed

A South Asian in the Southwest

Saturday
May 16

7:30 pm

30 Minutes

Asma Khalid travels to the American Southwest to tell the story of Mir Dad, a Muslim man from South Asia who comes to the U.S. in 1917 and marries a Mexican-American woman on the California-Arizona border in the early years of the 20th century.

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