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This Muslim American life : dispatches from the War on Terror
\"Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect ... surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in an absurd space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people carry about you ... Bayoumi [posits that] contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts, and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim American past but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present\"--Back cover.
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This Muslim American Life
Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra inSex and the City 2playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake \"Mustafa Bayoumi\" was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an \"anti-American, pro-Islam\" agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed.
Others have endured far worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get their hair cut to eavesdropping on conversations in cafés. InThis Muslim American Life, Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect this surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in an absurd space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people carry about you. In gripping essays, Bayoumi exposes how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present.
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ISRAEL: NEW BOOK OFFERS EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS FROM MAVI MARMARA
This faction was evidenced by the distinguished array of Jewish scholars, journalists and professionals who contributed to Moustafa Bayoumi's new book, \"Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict.\" Amongst a host of 'who's who' of the literary world, the Jewish scholars and journalists who contributed included Noam Chomsky, Marsha B. Cohen, Norman Finkelstein, Glenn Greenwald and Gideon Levy, to name a few. \"But what we have seen in the interim is a growing global movement of concerned citizens really from around the world and that really reached its apogee of late with the Gaza freedom flotilla. That flotilla had six ships and people from 40 different countries all engaged in the idea and the action of bringing humanitarian aid to the besieged people of Gaza.\" \"Releasing the book at a quick pace is partly the idea of the company, which is a new publishing house,\" he explained. \"The concept is that one should be able to harness new technologies in publishing to respond then in a way that publishing has traditionally not been able to respond with the kind of speed.\"
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Author Speaks To Students About How It Feels To 'be A Problem'
A lecture by author Moustafa Bayoumi, entitled \"How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young, Arab, and Muslim in America Ten Years After 9/11,\" was held Nov. 17 in The University of Scranton's Pearn Auditorium of Brennan Hall. The professor of English at Brooklyn College CUNY discussed his book, \"How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America,\" which focuses on the experiences of young Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans in post-Sept. 11 America.
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Letters to the Editor
EDITOR: I read Mark Looney's Jan. 30 commentary on the Carolina Beach Inlet. As Mr. Looney states, closing the inlet would double traffic in Masonboro Inlet and cause great inconvenience for boaters in southern New Hanover County. Add the economic impact, and it's clear that closing the inlet is bad for all of us, regardless of where we live in New Hanover County. The Hugo Neu facility across the river will bring salvaged automobile components into our area for recycling and landfill. Dubbed \"Mount Fluffmore\" by concerned Brunswick County citizens and opposition groups, the landfill will dwarf the Battleship and the new PPD headquarters building. Wilmington has a direct stake in this issue. The City Council has withdrawn its objection to Hugo Neu's plan, but it is time for them to reconsider. To be successful, the struggle against Mount Fluffmore should be fought from both sides of the river.
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