Anisa Khalifa
Podcast ProducerAnisa Khalifa is a podcast producer at WUNC. She is a lifelong public radio nerd, and fell in love with podcasts around the same time her friends convinced her to start one about Korean dramas, Dramas Over Flowers, which she still co-hosts. She’s also the co-creator and co-host of Muslim in Plain Sight, a show exploring Muslims’ coming of age stories post-9/11.
Anisa is a nomad who started her journey in Toronto and zigzagged across the world to end up in North Carolina. She has a master’s degree in Critical Asian Humanities from Duke University, and a dual B.A. in English and Diaspora & Transnational Studies from the University of Toronto. In her non-podcast life, she’s a culture writer, poet, visual artist and chronic insomniac. She's fascinated by the stories we tell about ourselves and each other.
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Amid the royal spectacle of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, WUNC's Anisa Khalifa reflects on the Crown's brutal legacy. -
Iguanas didn’t always fall out of trees during cold snaps in the Sunshine State, but chances are, future generations will regard them as just a natural part of the landscape. With the world changing around us at a rapidly increasing rate, how do we set conservation goals when we can't keep track of what we’ve lost?
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In May, an explosive report on sexual abuse perpetrated by clergy in the Southern Baptist Convention made national headlines. Now, survivors of abuse and their advocates are continuing to question what this means for one of the country’s largest Christian denominations.
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Across the nation, we've seen a spike in book challenges and bans in both school and public libraries, mostly targeting books that center race and LGBT identity. At the end of 2021, Wake County had its own high-profile censorship controversy.
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It’s become an oft-repeated pandemic talking point: we won’t know the true impact of COVID-19 for years to come.
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For many, life is getting back to normal. But some people who contracted the coronavirus continue to experience symptoms associated with long COVID.
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Life is getting back to normal. But some doctors estimate that 30% of people who contracted the coronavirus will experience symptoms associated with "long-COVID." Some have had to drastically change their lives to deal with these symptoms, and doctors are still learning about how to treat these patients.
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The Rohingya, a Muslim minority group native to Myanmar, have suffered decades of ethnic cleansing by the country's government. Five years after a deadly peak in violence, the United Stated has finally declared it genocide. But what will this mean for the Rohingya, often called the most persecuted group in the world?
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Through a one-person play, North Carolina actor and playwright Mike Wiley has taken the story of Emmett Till across the world. Now, his play carries an even deeper resonance in the wake of the recent Emmett Till Antilynching Act.
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Education reporter Liz Schlemmer joins host Anisa Khalifa to discuss what happened when a Black cultural center at UNC-Chapel Hill canceled the exhibition of a Black artist. Cornell Watson, who created a photo series about Black life at UNC-CH for the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, describes the experience as censorship.
