Moustafa Bayoumi

Moustafa Bayoumi is an award-winning author, journalist, and professor. He is a columnist and feature writer for The Guardian and a regular contributor to The Nation.

Bayoumi is also the author of the critically acclaimed "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 also awarded the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, CNN.com, The London Review of Books, The National, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Progressive, and many other places. With Andrew Rubin, he co-edited "The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1996-2006" (Vintage), and he is the editor of "Midnight on the Mavi Marmar: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict" (O/R and Haymarket Books).

He has been profiled in a wide array of national and international media and has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Award. Bayoumi is also a professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.