Moustafa Bayoumi: 'Arab is the New Black'

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 5, 2015

English Professor Moustafa Bayoumi discusses his collection of essays detailing Muslim American life in the post-September 11 world. In This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror, Bayoumi, who is of Egyptian origin, writes about the pervasive surveillance and suspicion, and the daily indignities, facing Muslim-Americans today.

EVENT: On Tuesday, October 6th, Moustafa Bayoumi will be speaking at CUNY's Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9204, New York, NY 10016 at 6:30 P.M.

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