Rewriting Arab & Muslim Perception in America Through Humor | Moustafa Bayoumi
We discussed Moustafa Bayoumi's book "How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?" Being Young and Arab in America", and his work as a journalist, columnist, and editor.
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 Non-Fiction. His latest book, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror (NYU Press), was chosen as a Best Book of 2015 by The Progressive magazine and was also awarded the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. An anniversary edition of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?, which included a new afterword, was published in 2018. An accomplished journalist, Bayoumi is also a columnist for The Guardian, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and other places. His essay “Disco Inferno” was included in the collection Best Music Writing of 2006 (Da Capo). Bayoumi is also the co-editor (with Andrew Rubin) of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage), which has been reissued in an expanded edition as The Selected Works of Edward Said (1966-2006).
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