Moustafa Bayoumi is an award-winning author, journalist, and professor. He is the author of the critically acclaimed "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.

Bayoumi is also a columnist for The Guardian and a regular contributor to The Nation. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, CNN.com, The London Review of Books, The National, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Progressive, and many other places. He is the co-editor, with Andrew Rubin, of "The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1996-2006" (Vintage) and editor of "Midnight on the Mavi Marmara" (O/R and Haymarket Books). Bayoumi's article “Journey to Guantánamo” was a finalist for the 2023 Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association’s Excellence in Reporting award, and he has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Award.

Bayoumi is a professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He lives in Brooklyn.

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