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Musa al-Gharbi

Sociologist, Author and Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University

Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His research primarily focuses on the political economy of knowledge production and the social life of scholarly and journalistic outputs. He is a columnist for The Guardian, and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and more. al-Gharbi’s first book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, was published by Princeton University Press in October 2024.


Join us on the Opening Night of DXC25 on April 3 at 7:15 pm for: Polarization and Perception: Rethinking Division in Modern Society, and see Musa al-Gharbi as he discusses his timely new book in conversation with Nam Kiwanuka.




Musa al-Gharbi

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