Welcome to The Ilm with Ayesha Aleem - a podcast that celebrates all kinds of knowledge. "Ilm" is an Arabic and Urdu word that means knowledge. The more we know, the more we learn about people, places, issues, we’re richer for it. Because the more information we have, we’re less fearful of what’s different from us. Knowledge helps us learn what makes people different and distinct but also so much like us and the people we love.
Ayesha Aleem speaks to The Ilm's audio editor, Sharad Joshi, about Season 1 - just a fun chat about learnings, challenges and favourite parts. Facebo...
For the final episode of Season 1, Ayesha Aleem spoke to Kim of The Picha Project based in Malaysia, an organisation that helps refugee families rebui...
If there's anything more frustrating than figuring out how to file taxes, it's probably managing legal formalities. Even at the best times, the law ca...
On the previous episode, we talked about women and their bodies. This time, we're talking about women and their minds - because mental health isn't ta...
An entire book can written about it. And maybe followed by an entire series. How women feel about their bodies has had us thinking about the topic sin...
There isn't a single woman who hasn't at some point in her life felt physically threatened either because of how someone looked at her, by what someon...
There are plenty of theories about why hate is directed at women, at their bodies, at their choices and minds - for control, for cultural and social r...
It's on all our minds, often always on our mind. And yet it doesn't seem like we're any closer to figuring it out. It's complicated and not, simple an...
Women and the media, women in the media. How does mainstream media affect women? How does access to certain kinds of information influence their decis...
As women's careers get longer and more complex, we could all use a little help to be our best professional selves. Hena Mehta, CEO of Basis and Divya ...