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Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist, journalist and communication researcher in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His research explores how we think about, talk about, and produce shared knowledge about social phenomena including race, inequality, social movements, extremism, policing, national security, foreign policy and domestic U.S. political contests. His journalistic work has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, The Atlantic, New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian and many other outlets. He is regularly tapped by media organizations to contextualize current events, including spots with NPR, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, Voice of America, Slate and beyond. His first book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite was published by Princeton University Press in 2024. His next book, Those People, is slated for publication in 2027. More information about Musa is available on his website: https://musaalgharbi.com/