What 9/11 Did to My Life

For Muslim Americans, the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks marks a full generation of routine Islamophobia. In the years that followed, the war on terror wounded the nation’s Muslim communities in ways that still feel fresh today. 

Guest: Aymann Ismail, staff writer at Slate. 

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