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Musa al-Gharbi

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I’m hitting the road to support the launch of We Have Never Been Woke, published October 8, 2024 by Princeton University Press.

A list of confirmed upcoming tour dates follows below, with links for all stops that have online announcements. If no link is present, but you’re interested in attending one of the listed events, shoot me a line for details.

While I’m in town, I’m open to doing media, podcasts interviews or meetups in addition to the scheduled events. Reach out to the book’s publicists to help arrange that.

If logistics and funding permit, I am open to extending trips to add additional events in any location I’m currently scheduled to visit — or, if that isn’t possible, I’m happy to swing back through for another visit downstream. Past events are available at the bottom of this page — I’d be happy to revisit anywhere I’ve been (funding and logistics permitting).

If you want to hear me talk about the book, but you live somewhere I’m not currently scheduled to appear at all — let’s get something on the books! I’m open to a wide range of possibilities: big high profile events, small private gatherings; on campus or off; big cities, small towns, and everything between.

Although I’ve been travelling nonstop since the book launch, there are still several pivotal symbolic economy hubs I haven’t had a chance to speak at yet, and where I don’t have anything “on the books” for yet either. Among them: Seattle, Portland, Santa Fe, Atlanta, Huntsville, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Boulder, Denver, Miami, Philadelphia, the Twin Cities and the NC research triangle. If you are in one of these locations and you want to have me out, let’s make it happen!

Across the board, if you’d like to schedule an appearance, reach out to my booking agent Molly Grote (Molly_Grote@press.princeton.edu) ASAP. My goal is to reach as many constituencies as possible in as many places as I can.

Upcoming Talks


I’m currently in the intensive writing stage for my second book, Those People, slated for publication in late 2026.

For the sake of making progress on that book, I’m winding down my book tour for We Have Never Been Woke: until the manuscript is in the hands of the publisher, I will have to be highly selective for events.

It’s still possible to book me, but the compensation would have to justify the disruption of my workflow, and the logistics would have to work out.

If you’re interested in hosting me, reach out to my agent, Molly, to see what might be possible or to schedule events for the fall (when my bandwidth may be freer).

Past Stops

If you missed me while I was in the neighborhood, invite me back! I’d be delighted to return to any of the communities I’ve recently visited — to include alternative events at some of the specific universities I’ve popped into since the launch (especially for events with a different structure, for a different set of constituents, or on a different topic than last time). Just reach out to my booking agent Molly Grote (Molly_Grote@press.princeton.edu) to explore some options.

2026

New Haven, CT

  • January 13: Yale University

Cleveland, OH

Santa Fe, NM

Ithaca, NY

  • March 4: Cornell University

2025

Northfield, MN

Baltimore, MD

Swarthmore, PA

Tucson, AZ

Princeton, NJ

Boston, MA

Madison, WI

Austin, TX

  • May 16: UATX
  • March 7-9: SXSW

Toronto, CAN

Oxford, UK

London, UK

Buckingham, UK

Perth, AUS

Adelaide, AUS

Melbourne, AUS

Hobart, AUS

Sydney, AUS

Canberra, AUS

Brisbane, AUS

Auckland, NZ

Wellington, NZ

Christchurch, NZ

Dunedin, NZ

Chautauqua, NY

Bay Area, CA

Windsor, CAN

Wellesley, MA

Vancouver, CAN

2024

New York City

Long Island, NY

Los Angeles, CA

Nashville, TN

Chicago, IL

Crawfordsville, IN

D.C.

Pittsburgh, PA

Austin, TX

  • November 19: Institute for Humane Studies

Pre-release book talks

2022

Athens, OH

Riverside, CA

  • March 3: UC Riverside

Northfield, MN

Portland, ME

Waterville, ME

  • November 2: Colby College

Bay Area, CA

Stony Brook, NY

  • November 17: Stony Brook University

2021

Baltimore, MD

  • May 14: Johns Hopkins University

West Lafayette, IN

  • December 3: Purdue University (remote)

Worldwide Tour

For folks outside North America: I would be thrilled to make an appearance wherever you happen to be as well, logistics and funding permitting. I’ve done tours of the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. I’d be happy to return to those countries or to talk at other destinations abroad.

Timing and logistics permitting, I’m perfectly willing to do interviews, etc. with journalists around the world too (I’ve already done interviews about the book with reporters in Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands).

To explore the range of the possible, please reach out to my booking agent, Molly, or the book’s international publicist, Kate (Kate_Farquhar-Thomson@press.princeton.edu), when you can, and let’s try to make stuff happen!

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