{"product_id":"how-does-it-feel-to-be-a-problem-being-young-and-arab-in-america-paperback","title":"How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMoustafa Bayoumi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eBayoumi offers a revealing portrait of life for people who are often scrutinized but seldom heard from.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wholly intelligent and sensitively-drawn, \u003ci\u003eHow Does It Feel to Be a Problem?\u003c\/i\u003e is an important investigation into the hearts and minds of young Arab-Americans. This significant and eminently readable work breaks through preconceptions and delivers a fresh take on a unique and vital community. Moustafa Bayoumi's voice is refreshingly frank, personable, and true.\" \u003cb\u003e--Diana Abu-Jaber, author of \u003ci\u003eOrigin, Crescent\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Baklava\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn eye-opening look at how young Arab- and Muslim-Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Just over a century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e How does it feel to be a problem? Now, Moustafa Bayoumi asks the same about America's new \"problem\"-Arab- and Muslim-Americans. Bayoumi takes readers into the lives of seven twenty-somethings living in Brooklyn, home to the largest Arab-American population in the United States. He moves beyond stereotypes and clichés to reveal their often unseen struggles, from being subjected to government surveillance to the indignities of workplace discrimination. Through it all, these young men and women persevere through triumphs and setbacks as they help weave the tapestry of a new society that is, at its heart, purely American.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoustafa Bayoumi \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Zürich, Switzerland, and raised in Canada. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThis Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e, which was chosen as a Best Book of 2015 by \u003ci\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and awarded the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. He edited \u003ci\u003eMidnight on the Mavi Marmara: the Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel\/Palestine Conflict\u003c\/i\u003e and is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Edward Said Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eHow Does It Feel To Be a Problem? \u003c\/i\u003ewon an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. Bayoumi is also a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and his writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Nation, The New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe National\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCNN.com\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. He is the recipient of two excellence in teaching awards, a 2011 Culture and Achievement Award from the Network of Arab American Professionals, and a 2016 Pathmaker to Peace Award from the organization Brooklyn for Peace. In 2015, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Southern Vermont College. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.06 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151242629255,"sku":"9780143115410","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a7fb58c010628402751253ca63dcb254.webp?v=1733205639","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/how-does-it-feel-to-be-a-problem-being-young-and-arab-in-america-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}