American Muslims: A History Revealed

Even before the United States was founded, tens of thousands of Muslims were already here, captured in West Africa, and brought to colonial America in chains. Host Asma Khalid tells the surprising story of one of these people, a Muslim man named Mamadou Yarrow, who, after 45 years of enslavement and negotiated his way to freedom.

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. In this film, host Aymann Ismail tells the story of two of these people, a woman named Mary Juma and her husband Hassen who homesteaded in North Dakota in the early 1900s. Traveling across the Midwest, Aymann explores how the community t