Episode 558: Mona Chalabi

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 10:20 p.m.

b'Mona Chalabi is a writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in\\xa0The New York Times,\\xa0The New Yorker, and\\xa0The Guardian, where she is the data editor. Her\\xa0New York Times Magazine\\xa0piece\\xa0\\u201c9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos\\u2019 Wealth\\u201d\\xa0won this year\\u2019s Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting.\\n\\u201cI kind of think of protest as just saying what you believe. And sometimes, it\\u2019s considered protest because it\\u2019s outside of the institutions of power. So you\\u2019re saying,\\xa0Hey, Palestinians deserve human rights,\\xa0and that\\u2019s considered a form of protest, right? I want the work to change things and I think I\\u2019m quite unapologetic about that, and most journalists are like\\xa0No no no no no, we\\u2019re just reporting the world, we\\u2019re just reporting things as we see it.\\xa0There\\u2019s no desire for change. I think that is so messed up. This idea that your work has no impact in the world is incorrect. You can\\u2019t wash yourself of the consequences of the work, you have to be considering the consequences while you\\u2019re doing it.\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\nmonachalabi.com\\n\\nChalabi on Instagram\\n\\nChalabi\'s\\xa0Guardian\\xa0archive\\n\\n1:00\\xa0"9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos\' Wealth"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Apr 2022)\\n\\n1:00\\xa0"How Does the Reality TV Show\\xa0Cops\\xa0Stack Up with Real-Life Crime Figures?"\\xa0(The Guardian \\u2022 May 2019)\\n\\n6:00\\xa0"Striving For Justice: Lowkey in Conversation with Mona Chalabi"\\xa0(GQ \\u2022 Jun 2023)\\n\\n8:30\\xa0"NY Times Writers Jazmine Hughes & Jamie Keiles Resign After Signing Letter Against Israeli War on Gaza"\\xa0(Democracy Now! \\u2022 Nov 2023)\\n\\n8:30\\xa0Samira Nasr on Instagram\\n\\n\\n8:30\\xa0"Inside MSNBC\\u2019s Middle East Conflict"\\xa0(Max Tani \\u2022 Semafor \\u2022 Oct 2023)\\n\\n16:00\\xa0"Mentions of Israeli and Palestinian Deaths in\\xa0The New York Times"\\xa0(Instagram \\u2022 Oct 2023)\\n\\n18:00\\xa0"Circumcision Rates"\\xa0(Instagram \\u2022 Oct 2025)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0New America Fellow\\n\\n\\n21:00\\xa0Emerson Collective\\n\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"The Gray-Green Divide"\\xa0(Brooklyn Museum \\u2022 Jun-Dec 2022)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi"\\xa0(TED Audio Collective)\\n\\n54:00\\xa0Muntadhar al-Zaidi\\n\\n\\n54:00\\xa0Longform Podcast #276: Azmat Khan\\n\\n\\n54:00\\xa0Yousur Al-Hlou\'s New York Times archive\\n\\n\\n54:00\\xa0Jazmine Hughes\'\\xa0New York Times\\xa0archive\\n\\n\\n54:00\\xa0\\u201cRegarding the Pain of Others\\u201d (Marty Peretz \\u2022 The New Republic \\u2022 1996)\\n\\n\\n54:00\\xa0Longform Podcast #553: Clare Malone\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'