Moustafa Bayoumi

Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of 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 and This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror (NYU Press), which was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by The Progressive magazine and also won the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. He is 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). An accomplished journalist as well as a professor of literature, Bayoumi has written for The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Nation, The London Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other places. He writes a regular column for The Guardian on politics and culture.