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President Trump has caused outrage for retweeting three anti-Muslim videos from the fringe right-wing group Britain First. We speak to Aymann Ismail, whose new Slate series “Who’s Afraid of Aymann Ismail?” explores Muslim identity and Islamophobia

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Aymann Ismail is a video editor and producer at Slate whose work focuses on identity and politics. His current project is "Who's Afraid of Aymann Ismail?" a video series moving beyond stereotypes of both Muslims and their self-professed adversaries, finding hope and fault in both, to ultimately try to assess whether our cultural divides really are as profound as they seem.