This week on new BuzzFeed podcast, host Ahmed Ali Akbar invited scholar of religion and cultural commentator Reza Aslan to talk about growing up Iranian in the '80s, cable news, and pop culture.

You may remember Reza's infamous interviews on CNN and Fox News , where he got asked questions like "Does Islam promote violence?"

Can't stop laughing at this story @rezaaslan told me about the moment he realized he was done with cable news

However, he told us he's done with all that.

Aslan himself has several pop culture projects in the works, including an upcoming sitcom on ABC and an executive producer role (and episode!) on mini-documentary series, The Secret Life of Muslims.

Instead, he's working more on storytelling. And so we asked him — which Muslims in pop culture tell their stories best right now?

"Iqbal Theba is doing a marvelous job of integrating his Muslim identity into pop culture."

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Ahmed will be playing Bodhi Rook in Rogue One .

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