Moustafa Bayoumi

Honored and humbled that my featured essay in The Guardian, The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world, has been named a finalist for the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association award for Excellence in Opinion and Analysis!

Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi His win is a huge victory for all New Yorkers, but it is also meaningful far beyond the five boroughs of this city

Zohran Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it
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Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi His win is a huge victory for all New Yorkers, but it is also meaningful far beyond the five boroughs of this city

“The real reason Mamdani has won is that he is the candidate who best understood what the people of New York want and need at this moment.” @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Is Zohran Mamdani ready to stand up to Donald Trump? | The Take

I spoke with Al Jazeera's The Take about Mamdani's victory.
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Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi His win is a huge victory for all New Yorkers, but it is also meaningful far beyond the five boroughs of this city

Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi

Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi His win is a huge victory for all New Yorkers, but it is also meaningful far beyond the five boroughs of this city

My take: Zohran Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it!
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Nothing says the old order is dying while the new is being born than the death of Dick Cheney happening at roughly the same time that Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of New York City.

Breaking: Usha Vance is still not Christian and still not a white person, according to Vice President JD Vance.

From scapegoats to city hall: how New York Muslims built power and shaped Zohran Mamdani Muslim New Yorkers have steadily become a political force amid post-9/11 Islamophobic sentiment. Mamdani is their most accomplished expression

Zohran Mamdani’s rise is the work of decades of organizing by Muslim New Yorkers. Read about it in my piece here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... From scapegoats to city hall: how New York Muslims built power and shaped Zohran Mamdani

From scapegoats to city hall: how New York Muslims built power and shaped Zohran Mamdani Muslim New Yorkers have steadily become a political force amid post-9/11 Islamophobic sentiment. Mamdani is their most accomplished expression

From scapegoats to city hall: how New York Muslims built power amid post-9/11 Islamophobia and shaped Zohran Mandani - fascinating by @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social

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From scapegoats to city hall: how New York Muslims built power and shaped Zohran Mamdani Muslim New Yorkers have steadily become a political force amid post-9/11 Islamophobic sentiment. Mamdani is their most accomplished expression

Smart piece by @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social on NYC Muslims working for change despite bigotry www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I edited a book about a previous Israeli attack on a freedom flotilla, some 15 years ago.

Read the whole thread 👇🏾

Egypt announces pardon for top activist who's spent 6 years behind bars Egyptian authorities on Monday announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by Egypt’s state TV.

Pro-democracy Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released from prison late Monday after being granted a presidential pardon.

Charlie Kirk’s shocking killing sets the stage for a federal crackdown | Moustafa Bayoumi Maga leaders blame a mythically powerful left for political violence. Now, they are bent on destroying anyone who opposes them

Charlie Kirk’s shocking killing sets the stage for a federal crackdown | Moustafa Bayoumi

RFK Jr’s anti-science agenda will be catastrophic for the United States | Moustafa Bayoumi The CDC – the federal agency in charge of protecting the health of Americans – is in shambles. And that is all thanks to one man

RFK Jr’s anti-science agenda will be catastrophic for the United States | Moustafa Bayoumi

RFK Jr’s anti-science agenda will be catastrophic for the United States | Moustafa Bayoumi The CDC – the federal agency in charge of protecting the health of Americans – is in shambles. And that is all thanks to one man

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Moustafa Bayoumi says, "The difference between not believing the lies and believing in the truth may sound slight, but it’s exactly in that distinction where some people are allowed to live and others must die."

Holding onto truth matters.

No pay wall.

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Trump’s Washington DC takeover is straight out of a fascist playbook| Moustafa Bayoumi About 800 national guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’

Trump’s Washington DC takeover is straight out of a fascist playbook| Moustafa Bayoumi

Consider the new wave of (slight) global pressure being placed on Israel, it's worth recalling what Henry Kissinger said in 1976: "Israel has no foreign policy, only domestic politics.”

Edward Said and the Question of Palestine : Throughline Edward Said brought the question of Palestine into the American mainstream. He taught at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, and today, more than two decades after his death, pro-Palestine…

Charting a lineage from his own institutional battles to his posthumous life as a lodestar for today's campus insurgents, this conversation profiles Edward Said as the intellectual who ruptured the American consensus on Palestine.

With @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social et al.

“Where is my antisemitism money?”: A Columbia professor’s letter to the university president. [Last week, Columbia University reached an agreement with the Trump administration to “resolve multiple federal agency investigations into alleged violations of federal anti-discrimination la…

No one exposes the corrosive absurdity of Columbia University capitulating to Trump better than @jamesschamus.bsky.social

This letter is pitch-perfect: lithub.com/where-is-my-...

Edward Said and the Question of Palestine : Throughline Edward Said brought the question of Palestine into the American mainstream. He taught at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, and today, more than two decades after his death, pro-Palestine studen...

The NPR show Throughline interviewed Mariam Said, Tim Brennan, and me for an hour-long episode on Edward Said. You can listen to it here: www.npr.org/2025/07/17/1...

The way the UK government has labelled protesters to defend now forbidden Palestine Action terrorists is yet another example of @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social point that Israel's actions in #Gaza and many governments defence of this, is tearing democracies apart bsky.app/profile/geor...

Thanks,Tim!

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

Fantastic piece by @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social

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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

Great piece by @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social.
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Israel

"If there’s a glimmer of hope in all this rage-inducing misery, it can be found in the growing number of people around the world who refuse to be intimidated into silence."

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"This is a form of total war the modern world should never see, let alone condone. No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us...."

Thank you @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social

It’s really good and really powerful, thank you for that. The UK is going down a similarly dark path when it comes to protesting about Gaza and I hope they won’t succeed.

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

This @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social piece is spot on.

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