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Middle East Forum Podcast"Mental Illness in the Islamic World" with Amir Afkhami | MEF Podcast Ep. #359Mental illness in the Islamic world is often perceived differently than in the West. Spiritual healing, jinn possession, and communal stigma shape responses to psychological distress, sometimes sidelining medical intervention. At the same time, untreated mental illness, social isolation, and identity crises can make individuals more vulnerable to radical interpretations of Islam. Contrary to popular belief, radicalization is rarely a product of poverty alone—it is often fueled by personal instability, disillusionment, and a search for purpose. How does mental illness manifest in Muslim-majority societies? Why do some individuals turn to extremist ideologies, while others do not? And how do th...2025-05-1638 min
Download Latest Full Audiobooks in Teen & YA, Tough TopicsHow It All Blew Up by Arvin AhmadiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How It All Blew Up Author: Arvin Ahmadi Narrator: Nazanin Nour, Ali Afkhami, Nikki Massoud, Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 22, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda goes to Italy in Arvin Ahmadi's newest incisive look at identity and what it means to find yourself by running away. Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew coming out to his Muslim family would be messy--he just didn't think it would...2020-09-2210 min
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Teen & YA, Tough TopicsHow It All Blew Up by Arvin AhmadiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/457896 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How It All Blew Up Author: Arvin Ahmadi Narrator: Nazanin Nour, Ali Afkhami, Nikki Massoud, Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 22, 2020 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Arvin Ahmadi has written a novel that is authentic, hilarious and heart-wrenching all at once. A unique point of view combined with riveting storytelling, How It All Blew Up will grab you from the first page and won't let go - Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE HATE U GIVE and ON THE COME...2020-09-2205 min
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Title: How It All Blew Up
Author: Arvin Ahmadi
Narrator: Ali Afkhami, Nazanin Nour, Nikki Massoud, Vikas Adam
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:04:01
Language: English
Release date: 09-22-20
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio
Genres: Teen, Romance, Tough Topics
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Arvin Ahmadi has written a novel that is authentic, hilarious and heart-wrenching all at once. A unique point of view combined with riveting storytelling, How It All Blew Up will grab you from the first page and won't let go - Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE HATE...2020-09-226h 04Get Lost in the World of Stories With Free AudiobookHow It All Blew Up Audiobook by Arvin AhmadiListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 414762
Title: How It All Blew Up
Author: Arvin Ahmadi
Narrator: Ali Afkhami, Nazanin Nour, Nikki Massoud, Vikas Adam
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:04:04
Language: English
Release date: 09-22-20
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics
Summary:
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda goes to Italy in Arvin Ahmadi's newest incisive look at identity and what it means to find yourself by running away.
Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew coming out to his Muslim family would be messy--he just didn't think it would end in an airport...2020-09-226h 04
Infectious HistoriansEpisode 21 - Iran in the Age of Cholera with Amir AfkhamiAmir Afkhami (George Washington University) talks to Merle and Lee about the 19th and early 20th century outbreaks of cholera in Iran. He begins with a broad overview of recent Iranian history in the context of infectious diseases, and continues to discuss how imperialism and colonialism shaped how cholera struck Iran. Amir then shows how modern public health emerged in the country as one of the outcomes of this disease. At the end of the conversation Amir also discusses the wider context of infectious diseases in Iran, including the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Covid-19.2020-08-061h 07
Perspectives on ScienceAmir Afkhami on COVID-19Amir Afkhami discusses the history of epidemic disease in Iran, including the current crisis.
Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series on COVID-19 at:
https://www.chstm.org/video/742020-06-2627 min
Stanford Iranian Studies ProgramFrom COVID19 to Cholera: Repeating Patterns in Iranian Pandemic HistoryDr. Amir Afkhami
April 16, 2020
Why has the novel coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic been so widespread and deadly in Iran and what are the consequences of the outbreak? This lecture will attempt to answer these questions by presenting a timeline of the COVID19 outbreak in Iran and the historic and political determinants that shape Tehran’s public health policy against the pandemic.
Amir A. Afkhami, MD, PhD, is an associate professor with joint appointments in psychiatry, global health, and history at the George Washington University. He is also the director of preclinical psychiatric education at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He...2020-04-2437 min
talk iranAnother Conversation with Amir Afkhami - COVID-19 EditionIn this episode, I speak again with a previous guest, Dr. Amir Afkhami, a health policy expert, historian and trained physician. This episode is all about COVID-19! Early in the episode, we discuss the nature of this coronavirus and how it affects the body. Then, we get into the subject of Iran and how the country became one of the epicenters of the disease, its government’s response, the historical parallels with Iran’s past health crises, why the city of Qom was where the virus got its foothold in Iran, the role of religion, reported versus actual numbers of i...2020-04-181h 13talk iranA Coversation with Amir AfkhamiIn this episode, I speak with Amir Akhami, a psychiatrist and a historian of medicine, about the history of cholera in Iran. We talk about his multi-disciplinary career and how his various areas of knowledge converge in his work. We discuss what Cholera is, its history starting in the 19th century and its role in the history of Iran in particular, from a medical, social and political perspective. He takes us through a historical journey all the way from the Qajar era to today’s Iran and its current public health challenges. We touch a lot of different subjects su...2019-08-1958 min
Stanford Iranian Studies Program"A Modern Contagion: Cholera's Impact on Iranian History" by Amir AfkhamiAmir A. Afkhami presents an overview of pandemic cholera’s seminal role in the emergence and development of modernity in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This includes details on cholera’s transformative impact on the country’s governance and perspectives on medicine, disease, and public health. It also sheds light on how cholera shaped Iran's globalization and diplomacy and how it triggered revolutionary events such as the Tobacco Protest and the Constitutional Revolution. His presentation challenges the long held historical assumptions on the universal role of safe water and sanitation in ending the recurrence and severity of cholera and sh...2019-05-2948 min
The Ripple Effect PodcastThe Ripple Effect Podcast #175 (Dr. Amir Afkhami | Drugs, Imperialism & Foreign Policy)Dr Amir Afkhami is a psychiatry, global health, & history professor at George Washington University. He is also a lecturer at the Department of Defense's Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA).He has published extensively in both professional journals and mainstream media including award-winning articles in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Affairs. He also has a new book called, A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran's Age of Cholera.2019-02-081h 47