This week on “Chicago Stories” podcast, Mayor Emanuel interviewed 2017 MacArthur Fellow Rami Nashashibi, Palestinian-American activist and Executive Director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN).

Rami Nashashibi speaks with Mayor Emanuel about how his Muslim faith drives his community organizing and social justice work on Chicago’s Southwest side.

Their stories intersect as far away as Jerusalem but come together at Marquette Park, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched in 1966. It’s also where Mayor Emanuel formed his political consciousness counter-demonstrating neo-Nazi rallies in the 1970s, and where Rami embarked on his journey to build bridges among neighborhoods, countries, ethnicities, and faiths 25 years ago.

Listen and subscribe to “Chicago Stories” podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chicago-stories/id1246062482?mt=2

View photos of the interview: https://medium.com/@ChicagosMayor/chistories-podcast-rami-and-rahm-462def3d4229

Chicago Stories podcast is also available on Soundcloud, Stitcher and TuneIn.

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