Job discrimination against Arab applicants is entangled with stigma over Al Jazeera employment

Evidence

Then I asked him if he thinks the problem is one of discrimination. … “I think so. I definitely think so,” he said, but then he backed up. “I mean, to be honest, I have friends who have graduated who have jobs. So I’m not going to just go ahead and say that it is something targeted ethnically against us. I think it’s just the fact that I worked for a company that is looked down heavily upon by the wealthier class, the people who hire, the hirers, you know. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 806

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s running theme (and the reader’s interest) of how Arab-American identity is read through proxies like employer choice, echoing the recent coverage of Muslimness being inferred from names and workplaces.