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Moustafa Bayoumi
Moustafa Bayoumi
Moustafa Bayoumi, a professor at Brooklyn College and author of How Does It Feel to Be A Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, will give a lecture on that topic at Hamilton on Thursday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium (G027) of the Science Center. This event is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, the History Department and the Dean of Faculty Office, and is free and open to the public. 

Bayoumi's book 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. Bayoumi introduces readers to the individual lives of seven 20-something men and women living in Brooklyn, home to the largest number of Arab Americans in the United States. Through telling real stories about young people in Brooklyn, Bayoumi jettisons the stereotypes and clichés that constantly surround Arabs and Muslims and allows readers instead to enter their worlds and experience their lives. 

Bayoumi is an associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. Born in Zürich, Switzerland, and raised in Kingston, Canada, he completed his Ph.D. in English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is co-editor of The Edward Said Reader and has published academic essays in Transition, Interventions, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Amerasia, Arab Studies Quarterly and The Journal of Asian American Studies

His writings have also appeared in The Nation, The London Review of Books, and The Village Voice. 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 appear in newspapers across the United States.

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