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Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York; Columnist for The Guardian
Bloomington Campus, Hodge Hall, Room 2075
Bayoumi will discuss what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect that surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in an absurd space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people hold. 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. This Muslim American Life was awarded the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award.
Sponsored by the Islam in the American Public Sphere seminar
Heather Blair; Religious Studies; College of Arts and Sciences; Bloomington; heablair@indiana.edu
Alisa Clapp-Itnyre; English; School of Humanities and Social Sciences; IU East; aclappit@indiana.edu
Ronald Day; Information and Library Science; School of Informatics and Computing; Bloomington; roday@indiana.edu
Nazareth Pantaloni III; Scholarly Communication Department; Indiana University Libraries; Bloomington; nazapant@indiana.edu
Zachary Schrank; Sociology and Anthropology; IU South Bend; zschrank@iusb.edu
April Lidinsky; Women's and Gender Studies; IU South Bend; alidinsk@iusb.edu
Asma Afsaruddin; Near Eastern Languages & Cultures; School of Global and International Studies;
Bloomington; aafsarud@indiana.edu
Abdulkader Sinno; Political Science and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures;
College of Arts and Sciences; Bloomington; asinno@indiana.edu
Stephen Buttes; International Language and Culture Studies; College of Arts and Sciences;
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; buttess@ipfw.edu
Andrew Kopec; Department of English and Linguistics; College of Arts and Sciences;
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; kopeca@ipfw.edu
Amber Comer; Assistant Professor IU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences;
Department of Health Sciences; IUPUI; comer@iu.edu
Alexia Torke; Associate Professor Department of Medicine; IU School of Medicine;
IUPUI; atorke@iu.edu
Jason M. Kelly; History/Arts & Humanities Institute; School of Liberal Arts;
IUPUI; Jaskelly@iupui.edu
Pamela Napier; Visual Communication Design Department; Herron School of Art;
IUPUI; pcnapier@iupui.edu
