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During the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Gender and the City 2 playing a common 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 multimedia as pressing an "anti-American, pro-Islam" agenda, and was asked by way of a US citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured way worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001 resulted in the incarceration and deportation of a large number of Arabs and Muslims, established almost solely on the national source and immigration position. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the brand new York area as each goes about their common lives, from noting where they get their locks slice to eavesdropping on discussions in cafés. In This Muslim American Life, Moustafa Bayoumi discloses what the Warfare on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Us citizens, highlighting the deep effect this security has had about how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today can indicate to exist within an absurd space between unique and dangerous, sufferer and villain, simply as a result of assumptions people bring about you. In gripping essays, Bayoumi exposes how modern politics, movies, novels, media experts, and even more have jointly produced a culture of dread and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens our civil liberties in the present. Illustration and design by Wayne K. Hindle.
