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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. 

May 2021

  • TOPSHOT-US-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-CONFLICT-PROTEST<br>TOPSHOT - Activists and protesters march in support of Palestine near the Washington monument in Washington, DC on May 15, 2021. - US President Joe Biden, in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressed his “grave concern” Saturday over the flareup of violence in Israel and Gaza, the White House announced. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Joe Biden’s silence in the face of Israeli violence is a disgrace

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    Cracks are emerging in the wall that has historically separated any criticism of Israel from American politics – but Joe Biden is still not listening

April 2021

  • A man seeking asylum holds his infant daughter as they wait to be transported by the US Border Patrol after crossing from Mexico into California on 19 April.

    The Biden administration has ended use of the phrase ‘illegal alien’. It’s about time

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    The language we use to discuss immigration is dehumanizing: ‘catch and release’, ‘migrant caravans’, swarms – anything, in other words, but people

March 2021

  • ‘ICE paid almost $21 million for access to a database called CLEAR, owned by the media conglomerate Thomson Reuters. CLEAR is reported to contain billions of records, including employment and housing information, credit reports, criminal histories, vehicle registrations, and data from utility companies. It’s updated daily.’

    Ice reached a new low: using utility bills to hunt undocumented immigrants

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    Our government is effectively forcing people to choose between heat in their apartment and the risk of deportation

February 2021

  • President Biden Signs Executive Order On Economy<br>WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 24: U.S. President Joe Biden signs an Executive Order on the economy with Vice President Kamala Harris February 24, 2021 in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC. The order is intended to address a global shortage of semiconductors, or computer chips, as well as a multi-sector economic review regarding how to shore up supply chains. (Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

    US politics live with Joan E Greve
    Biden signs order to protect US supply chains as Moderna announces progress on vaccine updates – as it happened

  • Bunk beds are seen at the HHS unaccompanied minors migrant detention facility at Carrizo Springs<br>Bunk beds are seen at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ unaccompanied minors migrant detention facility at Carrizo Springs, Texas, U.S. July 5, 2019 in a still image from video released July 10, 2019. HHS/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

    Biden is locking up migrant children. Will the world still care with Trump gone?

    Moustafa Bayoumi

November 2020

  • In this Feb. 19, 2017, file photo, people carry posters during a rally against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, in New York’s Times Square. Trump’s travel ban has been frozen by the courts, but the White House has promised a new executive order that officials say will address concerns raised by judges that have put the policy on hold. The first order was met by legal challenges, confusion at airports worldwide and mass protests, but the White House has forecast smoother sailing the second time around. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

    With Trump voted out, can I finally feel at home in America again?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    An immigrant-welcoming America is a stronger America. And it could be Biden’s America, but only if we’re willing to fight for it

September 2020

  • FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2020, file photo, authorities disperse protesters out of a park in Kenosha, Wis. Authorities have been reluctant to release even the most basic information about the incident or details about the white officer who shot Blake seven times in the back. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

    Trump wants to convince Americans they are safer under him. They aren't

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    As a nation and as individuals, we are at considerably more risk than we were in 2016

July 2020

  • FILE - This June 23, 2020 file photo, Donald Trump Jr. speaks before President Donald Trump arrives to speak to a group of young Republicans at Dream City Church in Phoenix. Twitter has temporarily halted Trump Jr. from tweeting after he shared a video riddled with unsupported claims about the coronavirus Monday, July 27. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    Why is Donald Trump Jr amplifying a quack who believes in 'demon sperm'?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    The latest conspiracy theory is yet another example of how Americans are being misled by rightwing quacks

January 2020

  • ‘The cheerleading the American media radiates when discussing US military maneuvers would disturb Americans if such joy were expressed by any other country, yet it continues without self-reflection.’

    Even after Iraq, too many US elites still think war is a bloodless chess game

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    The problem isn’t that war is hell – the problem is that war has become mundane. Why does it feel like 2003 all over again?

December 2019

  • Ilhan Omar<br>FILE - in this Sept. 24, 2019 file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Omar was on a five-day trade trip to Morocco with Democratic Reps. Marcia Fudge, from Ohio, and Karen Bass, of California, when social media users began circulating photos and video suggesting that the congresswoman was involved in protests outside the Trump rally in Minneapolis. The scene was chaotic outside the Target Center where anti-Trump protesters filled the streets well before the president’s arrival. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta File)

    Are the Republicans trying to get Ilhan Omar killed?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    The dangers Ilhan Omar faces are real, relentless and deadly. And they are being fueled by her opponents in the Republican party

September 2019

  • Justin Trudeau<br>This April 2001 photo, which appeared in a newsletter from the West Point Grey Academy, shows a costumed Justin Trudeau, his face and hands darkened by makeup, attending an “Arabian Nights” gala. The academy is a private school in Vancouver, B.C., where Trudeau worked as a teacher before entering politics. (West Point Grey Academy/The Canadian Press via AP)

    Justin Trudeau's brownface scandal is bad. But voting him out isn't the solution

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    Let’s make sure that this incident forces us to examine not just Trudeau but also Canada and its racism

August 2019

  • People visit the memorial outside Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where a mass shooting took place on Saturday, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)

    If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim ...

    Moustafa Bayoumi
  • Donald Trump<br>FILE - In this April 15, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md. Four California voters have sued Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, to block a new state law aimed at forcing Republican President Donald Trump to release his personal income tax returns. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law last week that requires presidential candidates to file five years of their income tax returns with the California Secretary of State at least 98 days prior to the primary election. Candidates who don’t do it won’t appear on the ballot. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

    Trump's response to the weekend massacres show he is an ethical black hole

    Moustafa Bayoumi

July 2019

  • President Trump tells minority congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their home countries<br>epa07719409 Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar speaks about President Trump’s Twitter attacks against her and fellow lawmakers Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 15 July 2019. Without identifying them by name, President Trump tweeted that the minority lawmakers should ‘go back’ to their countries. Three of the four freshman congresswomen are natural-born US citizens. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

    The Squad v the mob: that's what the 2020 election boils down to

    Moustafa Bayoumi
  • Democrat Congresswomen press conference, Washington DC, USA - 15 Jul 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Carol Guzy/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock (10337591a) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks and Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) listen. Democrat Congresswomen press conference, Washington DC, USA - 15 Jul 2019

    This is what today's America looks like. The squad is us

    Moustafa Bayoumi

June 2019

  • Scott Warren, a border activist charged with giving migrants water, food and lodging, at the Arizona-Mexico border, has argued that his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress.

    Is showing compassion to migrants a crime?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    Trump – and governments across the western world – are putting humanitarians on trial. That should scare us

April 2019

  • Omar’s detractors misrepresent her words, accusing her of saying things she didn’t say or condemning her for things that have been said before, even by Republicans themselves.

    Ilhan Omar has become the target of a dangerous hate campaign

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    Fox News, New York Post and Donald Trump are contributing to a climate of vigilantism that threatens every Muslim in America today

March 2019

  • Donald Trump Attends Church Services On St. Patrick’s Day In Washington<br>US President Donald J. Trump gestures after attending services at St. John’s Episcopal Church on St. Patrick’s Day in Washington, DC on March 17, 2019. Photo by Erik S. Lesser/UPIPHOTOGRAPH BY UPI / Barcroft Images

    White supremacy is on the march, and Trump is at least partly to blame

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    After the Christchurch shooting by a racist gunman the president played down the threat of white nationalism but his record speaks louder than words

February 2019

  • ‘An accurate census matters. The census is used to reapportion congressional seats and electoral college votes. Everything from healthcare to highway construction uses its data.’

    Antiracism and America
    I'm a brown Arab-American, and the US census refuses to recognize me

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    I, like millions of others, have waited for decades to see my reality in America counted. We’re still waiting

August 2018

  • A child injured in a Saudi-led airstrike

    US bombs are killing children in Yemen. Does anybody care?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
    The lack of outrage at the US’s key role in this humanitarian disaster raises troubling questions, says Moustafa Bayoumi, professor of English, City University of New York
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