dispatches from the War on Terror
In his book, Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect their surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in a space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people make. In his 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.
