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Rad Brown Dads (RBD) is a newsletter by Chicago-based writer and journalist, Ahmed Ali Akbar. You can follow him @radbrowndads pretty much everywhere.

Ahmed writes about food, culture, being Muslim in America and much more. He won a James Beard Award for the article, “Inside the Secretive, Semi-Illicit, High Stakes World of WhatsApp Mango Importing.”

You can read about the origin story of RBD and bringing it back.

Currently, he’s an editor for Acacia Magazine. Previously, Akbar has written and broadcast for a variety of outlets from the Chicago Tribune to Buzzfeed News.

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Narrative writing and reporting on food, culture and American Muslims from James Beard Award winner Ahmed Ali Akbar

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