Read Moustafa's Op-ed on Trump's Executive Order Against Muslims in emThe Guardianem emWinner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Awardembr br Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in emSex and the City 2em playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect or at least his namesake Mustafa Bayoumi was in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an anti-American, pro-Islam agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured far worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get the