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Moustafa Bayoumi

Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of the award-winning books How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America and This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror. He is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. 

June 2024

  • Banned From Gaza v2

    Toys, spices, sewing machines: the items Israel banned from entering Gaza

    The fluctuating policy has targeted a huge range of items, as tracked by an Israeli human rights group. The latest version of the blockade is nearly total

May 2024

  • woman speaks into microphone

    Why is Nikki Haley scrawling genocidal messages on Israeli bombs?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
  • Illustration for Moustafa Bayoumi's piece on the origins of US Islamophobia

    Decades of spying and repression: the anti-Palestinian origins of American Islamophobia

April 2024

  • A line of women and girls in abiyahs kneels on a white mat beyond a group of men doing the same, on sandy hills beyond a refugee camp of camp tents.

    It’s not enough to stop an Israeli invasion of Rafah. We need a ceasefire now

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    Thinking of Rafah as a final ‘red line’ is a mistake’ – the situation in Gaza is already beyond the bitter edges of human cruelty

February 2024

  • ‘Without approval from the White House, Israel would not be able to carry out one of the deadliest, most destructive, and plausibly genocidal military campaigns in recent history.’

    As Biden ignores death in Gaza, the ‘Dark Brandon’ meme is unfunny and too real

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    Until the president stops Israel’s violence, an evil-looking Biden looks less like a clever joke and more like a statement of fact
  • A man in a blue scarf against a blue background looks into the camera.

    Edward Said seems like a prophet: 20 years on, ‘there’s hunger for his narrative’

    As war rages in Gaza, the scholar and activist’s words feel prescient. That’s because so little has changed
  • Man in gray uniform and hat salutes a line of soldiers in green uniform, carrying guns.

    Republican congressmen are now talking about throwing migrants from helicopters

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    Anti-migrant rhetoric has reached the point of a congressman citing a far-right meme about Augusto Pinochet’s death-flights

January 2024

  • aid workers getting into a car marked UN

    Millions of Palestinians rely on UNRWA. Why is the US suspending funding based on Israeli accusations?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
  • joe biden sitting at a desk flanked by two men

    The US election looms. Arab Americans feel stuck between a rock and a hard place

    Moustafa Bayoumi

December 2023

  • Donald Trump giving a speech

    Biden officials decry Trump’s anti-migrant xenophobia – yet quietly copy his stance

    Moustafa Bayoumi
  • Representative Elise Stefanik

    The Harvard and UPenn presidents walked into a trap in Congress

    Moustafa Bayoumi

November 2023

  • The halal food cart whose employee, 24-year-old Islam Moustafa, was racially abused and threatened by Stuart Seldowitz, an ex-state department official.

    Stuart Seldowitz’s hateful behavior is US foreign policy unmasked

    Moustafa Bayoumi
  • Columbia University recently banned its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for the semester.

    Everyone loves diversity and inclusion – until you stick up for Palestinians

    Moustafa Bayoumi

October 2023

  • People walk amid debris after Israeli airstrikes hit Tel al-Hawa, the western Gaza City on Monday.

    Is the US about to blindly march into yet another catastrophic war?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    A ceasefire from all sides, along with the immediate and safe return of all the hostages, is what’s necessary now – this is hardly a difficult concept to grasp
  • protesters carrying sign reading 'ceasefire' outside the white house

    Standing up for Palestine is also standing up to save the west from the worst of itself

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    One can be opposed to Hamas, as I am, and to the indiscriminate bombing and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, as I am

    • The double standard with Israel and Palestine leaves us in moral darkness

      Moustafa Bayoumi

    • US politics live with Chris Stein
      Biden pledges to work with next House speaker as Jim Jordan welcomes Trump endorsement – as it happened

    • Why is Joe Biden campaigning for Donald Trump?

      Moustafa Bayoumi

September 2023

  • ‘Kandula had been working toward her master’s degree in information systems so she could support her mother in India, reports indicate. But instead, it was her uncle in Texas who had to make the arrangements to send her body to her mother.’

    A cop said a woman killed by a police crash had ‘limited value’. That’s appalling

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    The leaked recording is a grim reminder that police are too often more interested in protecting their livelihoods than civilians’ lives

May 2023

  • ammar al baluchi

    This 9/11 suspect and ‘torture prop’ has spent 20 years in Guantánamo. Is he nearing a deal with the US?

    Ammar al-Baluchi was a human experiment for interrogators learning brutal techniques. Now prosecutors have proposed a plea bargain
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