Today, we are shaking things up! Rather than releasing our usual episode, we have a special treat for you. Get ready to dive into an enlightening episode of "The Trail Ahead" podcast, where athletes and environmental advocates Faith E. Briggs and Addie Thompson embark on thought-provoking conversations at the intersection of race, environment, history, and culture.

Faith and Addie sit down with Ahmad Hijazi, a remarkable first-generation Lebanese-American thru-hiker and mountaineer, in this captivating installment. Ahmad shares his unique perspective on Arab-American representation in the outdoors. In this episode, they also debrief with the writer, producer, professor, and Executive Producer of the hit Netflix series, Ramy, Maytha Alhassen, Ph.D. They talk about living on the margins, the historic and ongoing misrepresentations of Arabs in the media, her take on what it means to witness, and much more.

You can listen to the Trail Ahead Podcast here.

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