Anisa Khalifa
Podcast Producer and HostAnisa Khalifa is an award-winning podcast producer and host at WUNC. She grew up in a public radio household, and fell in love with podcasts shortly before her friends convinced her to start one with them about Korean dramas. Since joining WUNC in 2021, Anisa has produced Me and My Muslim Friends, CREEP, Tested and Dating While Gray, and is the host of WUNC's weekly podcast The Broadside.
Anisa is also the co-creator of indie podcasts Dramas Over Flowers and Muslim in Plain Sight. In her non-podcast life, she’s a culture writer, poet, visual artist and chronic insomniac, who is fascinated by the stories we tell about ourselves and each other.
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From bourbon to chow chow, fermentation is everywhere in Southern food and drink. -
On a cold night in January 1958, hundreds of Native Americans showed up to a field in southeast North Carolina with one mission: to boot the KKK out of their community.
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Buc-ee’s, the mega-sized rest stop expanding across the South, has a legion of intense fans. But does the world really need a store with 120 gas pumps?
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An old photograph and a call to action from one of the world's most famous athletes sends us on a fascinating adventure.
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For our 100th episode we share some of our favorite short stories, including the effort to raise up an iconic hip-hop anthem and a tale about one of America's most infamous crime scenes.
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The story of how a bite sized version of golf made it from one man’s lawn in North Carolina to the rest of the world is utterly fascinating.
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In the wake of a natural disaster, some folks in the Blue Ridge Mountains are embracing foraging.
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The immigrant from Japan who became the eyes of the American conservation movement and the dark secrets that motivated his life’s work
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Dr. Brittany Hunt talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about her efforts to center Indigenous stories and dismantle harmful teaching practices. And The Broadside brings us the story of effots to save the Cherokee language. -
Despite a century long decline in numbers, Black farmers are finding new ways to grow.
