Description: Further DetailsTitle: This Muslim American LifeCondition: NewSubtitle: Dispatches from the War on TerrorISBN-10: 1479836842EAN: 9781479836840ISBN: 9781479836840Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/18/2015Description: Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book AwardA collection of insightful and heartbreaking essays on Muslim-American life after 9/11Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing 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. In This 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 567gAuthor: Moustafa BayoumiGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: This Muslim American Life
Title: This Muslim American Life
Subtitle: Dispatches from the War on Terror
ISBN-10: 1479836842
EAN: 9781479836840
ISBN: 9781479836840
Release Date: 09/18/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: This Muslim American Life : Dispatches from the War on Terror
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Islamic Studies, Terrorism, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Civil Rights, Essays
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Moustafa Bayoumi
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
