Scholar to discuss ‘Being Young and Arab in America’ at Nov. 10 lecture at Rice

Franz Brotzen
713-348-6775
franz.brotzen@rice.edu

Brooklyn College professor Moustafa Bayoumi will speak on “How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America a Decade After 9/11” today in the Farnsworth Pavilion at the Ley Student Center on the Rice University campus.

Who: Moustafa Bayoumi, professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

What: Lecture on “How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America a Decade After 9/11.”

When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10.

Where: Ley Student Center’s Farnsworth Pavilion on the Rice campus, 6100 Main St.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Bayoumi is the co-editor of “The Edward Said Reader” and editor of “Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israeli/Palestine Conflict.” He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America a Decade After 9/11″ traces the experiences of seven young Arab-Americans navigating life in a post–Sept. 11 environment. It was selected for a 2008 American Book Award.

The event is sponsored by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, the Rice History Department and the Arab American Educational Foundation Lecture Fund.

For more information, contact Ussama Makdisi at 713-348-2561 or Makdisi@rice.edu.