Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

Milstein Writing Fellow

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour is an Egyptian-American analyst who focuses on such topics as Muslim antisemitism, Islamist ideology, and American universities. He grew up in his native Cairo, Egypt, where he was attracted to Salafist mosques at an early age and fascinated by antisemitic conspiracy theories in Egyptian popular culture. After a transformative educational journey, he pushed back against antisemitism, which got him into trouble with the Egyptian authorities. Mansour has been published in Commentary, Tablet, The Hill, Mosaic, and elsewhere, and has published an autobiography, Minority of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind. Today he writes often at his Substack, The Abrahamic Critique and Digest. He received political asylum in the United States in 2012 and worked as an assistant professor of Hebrew language at the Defense Language Institute. He holds an MA in International Affairs from George Washington University.

Articles by this Author
Well Before the Current Conflict with Iran, the Gulf Capitals Drew the Rational Conclusion That the Relevant Competition Is Now Among the Gulf States Themselves
Iran Intended Its Strikes to Pressure the U.S.-Israeli Operation to Stop. For Now, That Narrative Has Collapsed
Another Massive Post-Liberal Adjustment in Which the U.S. Is Sidelining Systems That No Longer Function as They Should
The Death of Ali Khamenei and the End of Political Islam’s Century-Long Experiment in Power
Every Nation Has Its Founding Myths; Few Have Been So Thoroughly Imprisoned and Crushed by Them
Riyadh Repositions for Regional Primacy in a Post-Liberal Middle East
How the West Mistook Elite Activism for Moral Renewal in the Arab World
How Islam Severed Itself from the Biblical World That Once Made Its Scripture Intelligible
The Consequences of Mainstreaming Anti-Jewish Incitement in the West
The Book’s Circulation Says More About Arab Antisemitic Folklore Than About Nazi Ideology.
Antoun Sa’adeh, Fayez Sayegh, and the Intellectual Genealogy of Anti-Zionism
The Region Remains Suspended Between War Exhaustion and Recalibration
The System of Managed Incoherence Has Reached a Revision Point
Today’s Islamism Promises Authenticity but Is Postmodern in Form, Postcolonial in Posture, and Pretends to Retrieve the Sacred Through the Techniques of the Profane
The U.S. Should Decisively Join Israeli Operations to Ensure the Complete, Swift Destruction of the Iranian Nuclear Program
The Persistence of the Conflict Is Not an Accident. It Endures Because It Is Embedded Within Multiple Overlapping Systems of Power