Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His research explores how people 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. Dr. al-Gharbi is also a columnist for The Guardian whose freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and The Nation among other publications.