Book Reading & Discussion: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire By Deepa Kumar September 6, 2012

In response to the events of 9/11, the Bush administration launched a “war on terror” ushering in an era of anti-Muslim racism, but 9/11 did not create that phenomenon. In her new book, Deepa Kumar examines the historic relationship between Islamophobia and the agenda of empire-building.

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Deepa Kumar is Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle East Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike. She has offered her analysis on Islamophobia to numerous outlets around the world including the BBC, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Mexico's Proseco, China International radio, and Gulf News from Dubai.

Special guest speaker Moustafa Bayoumi is author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, the Nation, and others.

Co-sponsored by Haymarket Books