Moustafa Bayoumi

Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University - 1998 (English, general)

Areas of Expertise:

Postcolonial literature and theory, ethnic studies, literary theory, literary journalism.

Books and Publications

"Breivik's Monstrous Dream--and Why It Failed." The Nation, May 21: 17-22. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012

"Cultural Citizenship, Integration, and the Representation of Muslim Minorities." Publication of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012

"Egypt needs to get full democracy one year after Mubarak overthrow." Progressive Media Project. Feb. 11). (Appeared in Times Herald-Record, Desert News, Forbes, Argus Leader, Tri-City Herald, Gulf Today, Sacramento Bee, Bellingham Herald, Times-Picayune, Bradenton Herald , Post-Standard, Belleville News Democrat, Missoulian, and other places.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012

Essay on Islamophobia. The Nation. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012

Profile of Nuruddin Farah. The Progressive. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012

"For Arab American Heritage Month, appreciate our achievements." Progressive Media Project. April 6. (Appeared in The Californian, Bergen County Record, Bellingham Herald, The Providence Journal, Gulf Today, and other places.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

"Between Acceptance and Rejection: Muslim Americans and the Legacies of September 11." Organization of American Historians Magazine of History 25:3, July: 15-19. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

"The Long Life of Profiling, Ten Years After 9/11." The Nation (online). Sept. 6. (http://www.thenation.com/blog/163159/long-life-profiling-ten-years-after-911.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

"The Rites and Rights of Citizenship." The Nation (online). Sept. 9. (http://www.thenation.com/blog/163284/rites-and-rights-citizenship.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

"U.S. Politicians Fanning anti-Muslim sentiment." Progressive Media Project. July 27. Appeared in Providence Sunday Journal, Towanda Daily Journal, Savannah Morning News, among other places. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

"US Needs to Be on Side of Egyptian people." Progressive Media Project, Jan. 31. Also appeared in News-Press (Florida), Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Boulder Weekly (Colorado), Juneau Empire (Alaska), Vindicator (Ohio), Arizona Daily Sun, Sacramento Bee, Bellingham Herald (Washington), Lima Press (Ohio), Lincoln Journal-Star (Nebraska) and other places. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

'"Peter King's 'Islamic Radicalization' Hearings Fan Paranoid Fantasies." The Nation (online), March 10. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

"'Where Are You From?' Is Not the Right Question." CNN.com. April 5. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010

"Being Young, Muslim and American in Brooklyn." Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global North and South. Eds. Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 161-74. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2010

"My Arab Problem." The Chronicle Review, Oct. 29: B13-14. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010

"Réconciliation sans contrainte. Said, Adorno, et l'intellectuel autonome." Edward Said: théoricien critique. Tumultes 35: 27-48. (Reprint.) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

"Sects and the City." The New York Times Magazine, May 23: 50. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010

"The God That Failed: The Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators." Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend. Ed. Andrew Shryock. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. 79-93. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2010

"The Race Is On: Arabs and Muslims in the American Imagination." Middle East Report Online. March. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Isreal/Palestine Conflict. O/R Books; Haymarket Books. German edition: LAKA Verlag, 2011; South African edition: Jacana, 2011. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2010

Arabic translation of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America. Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers. (Books and Publications: Book) 2010

"East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America." Black Routes to Islam. Eds. Manning Marable and Hisham Aidi. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 69-78. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009

"October 17, 1961." On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions. Eds. John Foran, Kum-Kum Bhavnani et al. Routledge. 13-21. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009

"Racing Religion." American Studies. Eds. Janice Radway, Kevin Gaines, Barry Shank and Penny Von Eschen. Malden: Blackwell. 99-108. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009

"A Dream Deferred." The National (United Arab Emirates) July 24. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"American Girl." New York Magazine August 11: 36-39. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"Being an Arab Is No Slur." Progressive Media Project October 13. (Appeared in Cedar Rapids Gazette, Modesto Bee, Tri-City Herald [Wash.], Sacramento Bee, Beaufort Gazette [S.C.], Gulf Times [Qatar], The Herald [S.C.], Fresno Bee, News Trust, Vindy News [Ohio] and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"Obama Needs to Reach Out to Muslim Americans and Arab Americans." Progressive Media Project July 15. (Appeared in Philadelphia Inquirer, News & Observer [N.C.], Island Packet [S.C.], Lake Wylie Pilot [S.C.], Sacramento Bee, Bellingham Herald [Wash.], Modesto Bee, Tri-City Herald [Wash], Belleville News-Democrat [Ill.], Fresno Bee, Rome News-Tribune [Ga.], Columbia Daily Tribune [Mo.], Spokesman Review [Wash.] and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"Seven Years after Attacks, Life Difficult for American Muslims." Progressive Media Project September 9. (Appeared in Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Anchorage Daily News, Orlando Sentinel, News & Observer [N.C.], Island Packet [S.C.], Lake Wylie Pilot [S.C.], Sacramento Bee, Bellingham Herald [Wash.], Modesto Bee, Tri-City Herald [Wash.], Belleville News-Democrat [Ill.], Fresno Bee, The Olympian [Wash.], Hartford Courant [Conn.], Billings Gazette [Mont.], Gulf Times [Qatar], and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"The Searchers." The Nation November 10: 30-35. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America. The Penguin Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008

Review of Endless War Hidden Functions of the War on Terror, David Keen. Development and Change 39, September: 870-71. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"Reconciliation without Duress: Edward Said, Theodor Adorno, and the Autonomous Intellectual." Edward Said and Critical Decolonization. Ed. Ferial Ghazoul. American University in Cairo Press. 46-64. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

"A Light in Brooklyn." The Nation September 25: 23. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Arab America's 9/11." The Nation September 25: 22-26. German translation as "Virtuelle Verdachtsgemeinschaft" ["Virtual Community of Suspicion"]. Die Tageszeitung (Berlin) September 25. Reprinted in Annual Editions: Social Problems. Mc-Graw Hill, 2007. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Arrests Based on Race, Religion, Nationality Is Un-American." Progressive Media Project June 22. (Appeared in Watertown Daily Times [N.Y.], Great Falls Tribune [Mont.], Augusta Chronicle [Ga.] and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Debate on Muslim Cartoons Ignores Double Standards." Progressive Media Project February 13. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Disco Inferno." Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2006. Ed. Mary Gaitskill. DeCapo Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006

"Inside Lebanon: A Cold Civil War." The Brooklyn Rail, February: 12-13. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"U.S. Must Call on Israel for Immediate Cease-Fire." Progressive Media Project July 26. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Vilifying Muslims Is Wrong, Un-American." Progressive Media Project March 22. (Appeared in Anniston Star [Ala.], Monterey County Herald [Ca.], Desert Morning News [Utah] and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Disco Inferno." The Nation December 26: 32-35. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Fear of Muslim Americans Hinders Understanding." Progressive Media Project January 27. (Appeared in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Wisconsin State Journal, Taiwan News, Norwalk CT Hour, Charlotte Observer [N.C.], Wilmington NC Star-News, Watertown NY Daily Times, The Spokesman Review [Oregon], The Gulf Today [Dubai] and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Fear of Muslim Americans Hinders Understanding." The Progressive Media Project January 27. (Appeared in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Wisconsin State Journal, Taiwan News, Norwalk CT Hour, Charlotte [NC] Observe, Wilmington NC Star-News, Watertown NY Daily Times, The Spokesman Review [Oregon], The Gulf Today [Dubai] and others). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"In Beirut's Tent City." (Diary) London Review of Books 5, May: 35-36. Shorter version reprinted in International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World 16 [Leiden], Autumn: 34-35. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Onward, 'Christian' Soldiers." The Progressive Media Project July 11. (Appeared in Charlotte Observer [N.C.], Duluth News Tribune [Minn.], Greenwich Time [Conn.], Augusta Chronicle [Ga.], Lincoln Journal Star [Neb.] and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Our Work Is of This World." Amerasia 33.1, Spring: 6-9. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"Racial Profiling Undermines Security, Liberty." The Progressive Media Project August 22. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Racing Religion." Centennial Review 6.2: 267-94. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"Reconciliation without Duress: Edward Said, Theodor Adorno, and the Autonomous Intellectual." Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 25: 46-64. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"U.S. Shouldn't Meddle in Lebanon's Affairs." Progressive Media Project March 31. (Appeared in Taiwan News, Gulf Times [Qatar] and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"U.S. Shouldn't Meddle in Lebanon's Affairs." The Progressive Media Project March 31. (Appeared in Taiwan News, Gulf Times [Qatar] and others). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"A Bloody Stupid War." Middle East Report 231, Summer: 36-45. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004

"Because He Loved People." Politics and Culture 4.1, Winter. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Confessions of an Arab Mind." The Progressive Media Project July 12. (Appeared in The Albany Times Union, The Houston Chronicle, The Myrtle Beach Sun, Akbhar El Yom [Cairo, in Arabic] and others). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Fingerprinting Program Unfair, Alienating." The Progressive Media Project January 13. (Appeared in The Houston Chronicle, San Diego Union Tribune, The Sacramento Bee, Utica Observer Dispatch, Hackensack Record, CNN Money, San Juan Star, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Watertown Daily Times, Marysville Appeal-Democrat and others). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Must Knowledge Serve Power?" The Clarion February: 10. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Our Philological Home Is the Earth." Arab Studies Quarterly 26.4, Fall: 53-66. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004

Review of Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics, by Akel Ismail Kaheri. H-Gender-MidEast. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"A Testimonial to My Teacher." The Village Voice October 1-7: 46. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2003

"Bush's Motives for War Should Be Viewed with Scepticism." Progressive Media Project February 24. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2003

"Middle East 'Roadmap' a Replay of Failed Oslo Accords." Progressive Media Project June 11. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2003

"Moving Beliefs: The Panama Manuscript of Sheikh Sana See and African Diaspora Islam." Interventions 5.1: 58-83. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

"Staying Put: Aboriginal Rights, the Question of Palestine, and Asian American Studies." Amerasia 29.2: 221-28. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

"As the Border Tightens, We All Lose Out." The Progressive Media Project November 20. (Appeared in Columbus Dispatch, Virgin Islands Daily News, Norwalk CT Hour, Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002

"Freedom of Religion Is Being Restricted for Muslim Americans." The Progressive Media Project January 17. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002

"How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?" Asian Americans: On War and Peace. Eds. Russell Leong and Don Nakanishi. UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press. 81-89. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002

"Letter to a G-Man." After the World Trade Center. Eds. Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin. Routledge. 131-42. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002

"Military Cccupation Strangles the Palestinian People." The Progressive Media Project April 2. (Appeared in The Baltimore Sun, St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Birmingham News, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, The Spokesman Review, The Albuquerque Journal and others). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002

"One Year Later: Muslim Americans and September 11." The Progressive Media Project September 6. (Appeared in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Akron Beacon Journal, Virgin Islands Daily News, Watertown Daily Times, New Haven Register, Birmingham News, Columbus Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Albany Times Union, Tallahassee Democrat, Connecticut News-Times and others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002

Bayoumi, M., J.D. Dodds and G. Ahorani. "Displaced People/Meanings/Monuments." The Next Jerusalem: Sharing the Divided City. Ed. Michael Sorkin. Monacelli. 22-35. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002

Review of The Adam of Two Edens, by Mahmoud Darwish. Arab Studies Quarterly 24.1, Winter: 95-97. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002

"'East of the Sun (West of the Moon)': Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America." Journal of Asian American Studies, October: 251-63. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001

"'East of the Sun (West of the Moon)': Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 3.3, Summer: 39-49. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001

"Freedom of Speech Shouldn't be Stifled for Arab and Muslim Americans." The Progressive Media Project October 17. (Appeared in Atlanta Journal-Constitution.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2001

"How Does It Feel to Be a Problem." Amerasia 27.3: 69-77. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001

Review of Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature, by Chris Bongie. African American Review 35.1, Spring: 146-48. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2001

"Shadows and Light: Colonial Modernity and the Grande Mosquée of Paris." Yale Journal of Criticism 13.2, October: 267-92. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000

The Edward Said Reader. Vintage. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2000

"Intellectual Spectacle" art review. Border/Lines 48, February: 12-15. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1999

"Moorish Science: The Secret History of African American Islam." Transition 80: 100-19. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Faculty Fellow, Center for Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011

Artist Fellow, Bodies On the Line Symposium, Anna Deavere Smith Works, New York. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010

2008 American Book Award for How Does It Feel To Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America. (Awards and Honors) 2009

Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction, for How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America. (Awards and Honors) 2009

Faculty Fellow, Center for Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008

Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award, Brooklyn College. (Awards and Honors) 2006

Faculty Fellow, Center for Place, Culture, Politics, CUNY Graduate Center (Grants and Fellowships) 2004

Faculty Fellow, Center for Place, Culture, Politics, CUNY Graduate Center (Grants and Fellowships) 2003

Professional Leadership

Editorial Committee, Middle East Report and Information Project, 2006-11. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006

Member, National Council, American Studies Association, 2003-06. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006

Pedagogical Achievements

Visiting professor, American Culture Program, Department of English, Sogang University, Seoul South Korea. 2010