{"id":704,"date":"2016-09-28T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=704"},"modified":"2018-03-24T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T21:08:06","slug":"naif-al-mutawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/naif-al-mutawa","title":{"rendered":"Naif  Al-Mutawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Naif  Al-Mutawa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/NaifAl-Mutawa.jpg\" \/>Naif is the creator of <em>The 99<\/em>, a comic series that features superheroes based on Islamic archetypes.   Coming from a background in clinical psychology,  Naif earned his PhD  and aided war victims with post traumatic stress disorder.  Deciding to take a different path, Naif went to business school and developed an idea that would eventually take shape as <em>The 99<\/em>. These comics, while not overtly alluding to Islam, aim to promote values of tolerance and peace outside of and within the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Harris speaks to Naif about his process of creating a unique approach to promoting cultural tolerance and understanding, from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naif is the creator of The 99, a comic series that features superheroes based on Islamic archetypes. Coming from a background in clinical psychology, Naif earned his PhD and aided war victims with post traumatic stress disorder. Deciding to take a different path, Naif went to business school and developed an idea that would eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}