New Season Of Conviction: The Disappearance of A Muslim Woman in 2006

 Spotify’s Gimlet Media announced that their new podcast, “Conviction: The Disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan,” will premiere on Tuesday, February 22. 

The third season of the critically acclaimed “Conviction” series will follow Emmy Award-winning journalist Habiba Nosheen’s investigation of a missing Muslim woman, who vanished in 2006 from the Canadian city of Hamilton.

Listen to the brand-new trailer HERE.

 

 

  

In the spring of 2019, investigative journalist Habiba Nosheen received an anonymous tip in her email inbox, telling her about a missing woman whose story had more to it than had been reported.

As Nosheen begins to look into the case, which has several strange aspects from the start (for one, Nuseiba Hasan went missing in 2006, but wasn’t reported missing for nine years), she uncovers unexpected parallels between her own life and Hasan’s. Both Nosheen and Hasan grew up in conservative Muslim families and were first-generation Canadians; just like Nosheen’s own daughter, Hasan’s daughter was put up for adoption.

  

The new season further crystallizes Nosheen’s ongoing work to center the stories of people of color and marginalized communities. As Habiba herself notes, “When a white woman goes missing, there is a lot more coverage and a lot more outrage. But the same can’t be said when the missing woman is a person of color. We hope this series will give this case, and Nuseiba’s life, the space that it deserves.”

 

This latest season of Conviction continues a focus on women of color and the dangers they face in communities largely ignored by wider society. Last year, Spotify released Stolen: The Search For Jermain. In 2018, a young Indigenous mother named Jermain Charlo left a bar in Missoula, Montana, and was never seen again. The podcast followed the investigation into Charlo's disappearance and brought attention to the plight of indigenous women, who face indifference and neglect when they are victims of violence.