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Moustafa Bayoumi, Professor of English at Brooklyn College, is an award-winning author, journalist, and educator. He is an opinion columnist for The Guardian, where he also regularly contributes feature articles. Bayoumi is also the author of the critically acclaimed book 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. He is the recipient of two excellence in teaching awards, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, 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 Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict (O/R and Haymarket Books). With Lizzy Ratner, Bayoumi co-edited a special issue of The Nation magazine on Islamophobia, and he guest edited a special edition of the arts magazine Mizna titled Surviving. Bayoumi’s article “Journey to Guantánamo” was a finalist for the 2023 Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association’s Excellence in Reporting award. Bayoumi has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Sun-Times, and on CNN, FOX News, Book TV, National Public Radio, and many other media outlets from around the world. He has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, as well as a 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Award.
Ebrahim Moosa is Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He co-directs, with Scott Appleby and Atalia Omer, Contending Modernities, the global research and education initiative examining the interaction among Catholic, Muslim, and other religious and secular forces in the world. He is a faculty fellow of the Keough School's Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Moosa's interests span both classical and modern Islamic thought with a special focus on Islamic law, history, ethics and theology. His book What Is a Madrasa? was published in 2015 by the University of North Carolina Press. Moosa also is the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, winner of the American Academy of Religion’s Best First Book in the History of Religions (2006) and editor of the last manuscript of the late Professor Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism. Other publications also include the co-edited book The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring (Georgetown University Press, 2015); Islam in the Modern World (Routledge, 2014), and Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges, (Amsterdam University Press, Spring, 2010).
Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance, launched by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, is a research collective and lecture series co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The series focuses on contemporary literature, film, and visual art that has been shaped by revolutionary and resistance movements, decolonization, migration, class and economic warfare, communal and state-sanctioned violence, and human rights violations. We aim to theorize new modes of contemporary literary and artistic resistance across national borders and to amplify the voices of scholars, artists, and writers of color whose lived experience is instrumental in forging new alliances across formal, linguistic and national boundaries.
This event is sponsored by Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, The Graduate School, Department of American Studies, Institute for Social Concerns, Teaching Beyond the Classroom Grants, The Brookline Booksmith Transnational Literature Series and the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good/Henkels Grant.
Originally published at litofexile.nd.edu.