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Moustafa Bayoumi
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Assc Professor Department: English Location: 2161 Boylan Hall Phone: 718-951-4288 Fax: 718-951-4612 Email:
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http://www.moustafabayoumi.com
Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - 1998 (ENGLISH, GENERAL) Areas of Expertise: Postcolonial literature and theory, ethnic studies, literary theory, literary journalism. Books and Publications "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: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 "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, Forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 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, Penny Von Eschen. Malden: Blackwell. 99-108. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009 "The God That Failed: the Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators." Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 "A Dream Deferred." The National (U.A.E.) (24 July 2008). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 "American Girl." New York Magazine. (11 August 2008): 36-39+. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 "Being an Arab is no slur." Progressive Media Project. (Oct. 13, 2008). (Appeared in Cedar Rapids Gazette, Modesto Bee, Tri-City Herald [WA], Sacramento Bee, Beaufort Gazette [SC], Gulf Times [Qatar], The Herald [SC], Fresno Bee, News Trust, Vindy News [OH], and other places.) (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 "Obama needs to reach out to Muslim Americans and Arab Americans." Progressive Media Project. (July 15, 2008). (Appeared in Philadelphia Inquirer, News & Observer [NC], Island Packet [SC], Lake Wylie Pilot [SC], Sacramento Bee, Bellingham Herald [WA], Modesto Bee, Tri-City Herald [WA], Belleville News-Democrat [IL], Fresno Bee, Rome News-Tribune [GA], Columbia Daily Tribune [MO], Spokesman Review [WA], and other places.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 "Seven years after attacks, life difficult for American Muslims." Progressive Media Project. (September 9, 2008). (Appeared in Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Anchorage Daily News, Orlando Sentinel, News & Observer [NC], Island Packet [SC], Lake Wylie Pilot [SC], Sacramento Bee, Bellingham Herald [WA], Modesto Bee, Tri-City Herald [WA], Belleville News-Democrat [IL], Fresno Bee, The Olympian [WA], Hartford Courant [CT], Billings Gazette [MT], Gulf Times [Qatar], and other places.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 "The Searchers." The Nation (November 10, 2008): 30-35. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 A review of "Endless War Hidden Functions of the War on Terror by David Keen." Development and Change 39 (September 2008): 870-871. (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 2007): 46-64. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007 "A Light in Brooklyn." The Nation (25 September 2006): 23. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 "Arab America's 9/11." The Nation (25 September 2006): 22-26. German translation as "Virtuelle Verdachtsgemeinschaft" ["Virtual Community of Suspicion"] published in Die Tageszeitung (Berlin) September 25, 2006. 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, 2006). (Appeared in Watertown Daily Times [NY], Great Falls Tribune [MT], Augusta Chronicle [GA], among other places.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 "Debate on Muslim cartoons ignores double standards," Progressive Media Project (February 13, 2006). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 "Disco Inferno." Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2006 Ed. Mary Gaitskill (DeCapo Press, 2006). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006 "Disco Inferno." The Nation (26 December, 2005): 32-35. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 "Inside Lebanon: A Cold Civil War." The Brooklyn Rail (February 2006): 12-13. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 "U.S. must call on Israel for immediate cease-fire." Progressive Media Project (July 26, 2006). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 "Vilifying Muslims is wrong, un-American," Progressive Media Project (March 22, 2006). (Appeared in Anniston Star [AL], Monterey County Herald [CA], Desert Morning News [UT], among other places.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 "U.S. Shouldn't meddle in Lebanon's Affairs," Progressive Media Project (March 31, 2005). (Appeared in Taiwan News, Gulf Times [Qatar], among other places). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "Fear of Muslim Americans hinders understanding." Progressive Media Project (Jan. 27, 2005). (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], among others). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "Fear of Muslim Americans hinders understanding." Progressive Media Project (Jan. 27, 2005). (Appeared in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Wisconsin State Journal, Taiwan News, Norwalk CT Hour, Charlotte [NC] Observer, Wilmington NC Star-News, Watertown NY Daily Times, The Spokesman Review [Oregon], The Gulf Today [Dubai], among others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "In Beirut's Tent City." (Diary) London Review of Books 5 May 2005: 35-36. Shorter version reprinted in International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern world 16 [Leiden] (Autumn 2005): 34-35. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "Onward, 'Christian' Soldiers," Progressive Media Project (July 11, 2005). (Appeared in Charlotte Observer [NC], Duluth News Tribune [MN], Greenwich Time [CT], Augusta Chronicle [GA], Lincoln Journal Star [NE], among other places.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "Our Work Is of This World." Amerasia 33, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 6-9. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 "Racial profiling undermines security, liberty," Progressive Media Project (Aug. 22, 2005). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "Racing Religion." Centennial Review 6:2 (2006): 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 no. 25 (2005): 46-64. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 "U.S. Shouldn't meddle in Lebanon's Affairs," Progressive Media Project (March 31, 2005). (Appeared in Taiwan News, Gulf Times [Qatar], among other places.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "A Bloody Stupid War." Middle East Report no. 231(Summer 2004): 36-45. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004 "Because He Loved People." Politics and Culture 4, no. 1 (Winter 2004). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004 "Confessions of an Arab Mind." Progressive Media Project (July 12, 2004). (Appeared in The Albany Times Union, The Houston Chronicle, The Myrtle Beach Sun, Akbhar El Yom [Cairo Egypt, in Arabic] among others). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004 "Fingerprinting program unfair, alienating." Progressive Media Project (Jan. 13, 2004). (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, among others). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004 "Must knowledge serve power?" The Clarion (February 2004), 10. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004 "Our philological home is the earth." Arab Studies Quarterly 26:4 (Fall 2004): 53-66. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004 A review of Akel Ismail Kaheri's Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics. H-Gender-MidEast. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004 "A Testimonial To My Teacher." The Village Voice, Oct. 1-7 2003: 46. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2003 "Bush's motives for war should be viewed with scepticism." Progressive Media Project (February 24, 2003). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2003 "Middle East 'roadmap' a replay of failed Oslo accords." Progressive Media Project (June 11, 2003). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2003 "Moving Beliefs: The Panama Manuscript of Sheikh Sana See and African Diaspora Islam." Interventions 5:1 (2003): 58-83. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003 "Staying Put: Aboriginal Rights, the Question of Palestine, and Asian American Studies." Amerasia 29, no. 2 (2003): 221-28. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003 "As the border tightens, we all lose out." The Progressive Media Project (November 20, 2002) (Appeared in Columbus Dispatch, Virgin Islands Daily News, Norwalk CT Hour, Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail, among others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002 "Displaced People/Meanings/Monuments." (co-authored with J.D. Dodds and G. Ahorani) in The Next Jerusalem: Sharing the Divided City. ed. Michael Sorkin (Monacelli, 2002): 22-35. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002 "Freedom of religion is being restricted for Muslim Americans." The Progressive Media Project (January 17, 2002). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002 "How does it feel to be a problem?" Asian Americans: On War and Peace ed. Russell Leong & Don Nakanishi (UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2002): 81-89. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002 "Letter to a G-Man." in After the World Trade Center. eds. Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin. (Routledge, 2002): 131-42. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002 "Military occupation strangles the Palestinian people." The Progressive Media Project (April 2, 2002) (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, 2002) (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, among others.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002 A review of "Mahmoud Darwish's The Adam of Two Edens" in Arab Studies Quarterly 24 no. 1 (Winter 2002): 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 2001): 251-63. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 "'East of the Sun (West of the Moon)': Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America" also appeared in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 3:3 (Summer 2001): 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, 2001). (Appeared in Atlanta Journal-Constitution.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2001 "How does it feel to be a problem." Amerasia 27, no. 3: 69-77. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 A review of "Chris Bongie's Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature" in African American Review 35 no. 1 (Spring 2001): 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 2000): 267-292. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000 The Edward Said Reader (Vintage) (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2000 "Intellectual Spectacle." Border/Lines no. 48 (Feb. 1999): 12-15. (art review). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1999 "Moorish Science: the Secret History of African American Islam." Transition 80 (1999): 100-119. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Awarded 2008 American Book Award for How Does It Feel To Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America. (Awards and Honors) 2009 Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award, Brooklyn College, CUNY (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, 2006-2011. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006 Member of the National Council, American Studies Association. 2003-2006 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006 |
