The Zainab Salbi Project

Aired 2016-11-09

Muslim women who are wearing the headscarves are becoming the targets of attacks and threats to their lives and safety. Zainab goes to Minneapolis, Minnesota to understand why they are taking the headscarf on, the meaning of Islam in their lives, and how they are fighting back with their voice and actions.

Aired 2016-11-16

Zainab shows how India is breaking new ground for third gender/transgender community and explores how the third gender has gone from a marginalized community in Indian culture to mainstream.

Aired 2016-11-23

Thailand's renegade female monks endure arson, threats and resistance to emerge as religious leaders. Zainab takes a journey inside the lives of these female monks, one who gave up her life as a mother, scholar and TV personality, to be ordained.

Aired 2016-11-30

Zainab takes a journey back home to Iraq to explore how life has changed under ISIS occupation and the U.S led invasion. She meets an Iraqi Mother named Um Hanadi - who leads a brigade of men fighting ISIS.

Aired 2016-12-07

Seeing its youth radicalized, and joining Islamic State, Zainab goes to France and meets with family members and young people to find out why so many young people are being seduced into joining the Islamic State.

Aired 2016-12-14

Zainab travels to Mexico to meet with brave female journalists who have survived violent attacks and are risking their lives working under constant threat, to find out why Mexico is one of the most dangerous places on earth for journalists.