Moustafa Bayoumi

Moustafa Bayoumi

Moustafa Bayoumi is an award-winning writer, and associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.[1] Born in Zürich, Switzerland, and raised in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, he currently lives in Brooklyn.

Bayoumi completed his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is co-editor of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage, 2002),[2] editor of Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israeli/Palestine Conflict (first published by OR Books, trade edition by Haymarket Books, 2010) and has published academic essays in publications including Transition, Interventions, the Yale Journal of Criticism,[3] Amerasia, Arab Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Asian American Studies.

Writings

His writings have also appeared in The Nation,[4] London Review of Books,[5] and The Village Voice.[6] His essay "Disco Inferno", originally published in The Nation, was included in the collection "Best Music Writing 2006". From 2003 to 2006, he served on the National Council of the American Studies Association, and he is currently an editor for Middle East Report. He is also an occasional columnist for the Progressive Media Project, an initiative of The Progressive magazine, through which his op-eds[7] appear in newspapers across the United States.

Bayoumi's work, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, traces the experiences of seven young Arab-Americans navigating life in a post–September 11 environment, where complicated public perceptions of the attacks gave birth to new brands of stereotypes, fueling widespread discrimination. It is the story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy. His title is a reference to the W.E.B. Du Bois' 1903 classic, The Souls of Black Folk. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America was awarded a 2008 American Book Award and the 2009 Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction.

In This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror (NYU Press, 2015), Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect this surveillance has had on how they live their lives. The essays expose how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present.[8] This Muslim American Life was awarded the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Moustafa Bayoumi of Brooklyn College English Dept". Brooklyn.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
  2. ↑ "The Edward Said Reader by Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin, eds. - Book - eBook". Random House. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
  3. ↑ Archived June 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Authors". The Nation. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
  5. ↑ "Moustafa Bayoumi · LRB". Lrb.co.uk. 2005-05-05. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
  6. ↑ "Edward W. Said (1935–2003) - Page 1 - News - New York". Village Voice. 2003-09-30. Retrieved 2013-09-02. C1 control character in |title= at position 21 (help)
  7. ↑ "Moustafa Bayoumi". The Progressive. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
  8. ↑ "This Muslim American Life". NYU Press. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  9. ↑ "2016 Arab American Book Award Winners". www.arabamericanmuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
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