In this interview, award-winning author Moustafa Bayoumi, Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY and board member of Lateral, discusses Arab American life, social justice, and the rhetoric of the War on Terror in the Trump era and beyond. He also shares his views on identity politics as well as strategies of connection, resilience, and resistance in times of struggle.
Articles by Moustafa Bayoumi
Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of the critically acclaimed How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin), which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Nonfiction. His latest book, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror (NYU Press) also won the Arab American Book Award for Nonfiction. A columnist for The Guardian and frequent contributor to The Nation and other publications, Bayoumi also co-edited The Edward Said Reader and edited Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (O/R Books). He is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY.