Evelyn Alsultany is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US. media. She is the author of Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (2022), that was listed as one of the 10 best scholarly books of 2022 by The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (2012). She is the co-editor of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging, winner of the Arab American National Museum’s Evelyn Shakir Book Award and Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora. Alsultany is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College. Prior to her appointment at USC, she co-founded and served as the director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan. Professor Alsultany has served as an educator and consultant for Hollywood studios (Netflix, Amazon, NBC Universal) and co-authored criteria, the Obeidi-Alsultany Test, to help Hollywood improve representations of Muslims. She has published op-eds in The Hollywood Reporter, Time, and Newsweek.
