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Moustafa Bayoumi is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. Born in Zürich, Switzerland and raised in Kingston, Canada, he completed his PhD in English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is co-editor of The Edward Said Reader and has published academic essays in Transition, Interventions, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Amerasia, Arab Studies Quarterly, and The Journal of Asian American Studies, among others. Bayoumi’s writings have also appeared in The Nation, The London Review of Books, and The Village Voice. His essay “Disco Inferno,” originally published in The Nation, was included in the collection Best Music Writing 2006. From 2003 to 2006, Bayoumi served on the American Studies Association’s National Council, and he is currently an editor for Middle East Report. He is also an occasional columnist for the Progressive Media Project, an initiative of The Progressive magazine, through which his op-eds appear in newspapers across the United States. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Breivik's Monstrous Dream—and Why It Failed
The Nation

"Egypt needs to get full democracy one year after Mubarak overthrow"
The Bellingham Herald

"The Long Life of Profiling, Ten Years After 9/11"
The Nation

"The Rites and Rights of Citizenship"
Middle East Research and Information Project

Moustafa Bayoumi Interview
World Bulletin

Moustafa Bayoumi Discusses "The Year for Muslims In The U.S"
NPR's Talk of the Nation

"Sects and the City"
The New York Times Magazine

"Conversations with America"
Weekend America

Moustafa Bayoumi Interview
NPR's Book Tour

"Just Asking...Moustafa Bayoumi"
The Wall Street Journal

Moustafa Bayoumi's Article Archive
The Progressive