Moustafa Bayoumi

Moustafa Bayoumi is a Brooklyn-based author, journalist, and professor. He writes on politics and culture, teaches literature at Brooklyn College (CUNY), and is a columnist for The Guardian.

Opinion

The Banal Evil of Atrocity Photography

In the dark genre of self-reported atrocity photography, governments take pictures of their crimes and file them away in an act of simultaneous remembering and forgetting.