This Muslim American life : dispatches from the War on Terror / Moustafa Bayoumi.

"Over 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...

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Main Author: Bayoumi, Moustafa (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Pres, [2015]
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Physical Description:viii, 309 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • My Muslim American life
  • Muslims in history
  • Letter to a G-man
  • East of the Sun (west of the Moon) : Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America
  • Racing religion
  • Muslims in theory
  • Sects and the city
  • A bloody stupid war
  • The God that failed : the neo-orientalism of today's Muslim commentators
  • Muslims in politics
  • The rites and rights of citizenship
  • Between acceptance and rejection : Muslim Americans and the legacies of September 11
  • Fear and loathing of Islam
  • The Oak Creek massacre
  • White with rage
  • Muslims in culture
  • My Arab problem
  • Disco inferno
  • The race is on : Muslims and Arabs in the American imagination
  • Men behaving badly
  • Chaos and procedure
  • Coexistence
  • Our Muslim American lives.