Mehdi Bozorgmehr is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and City College, CUNY. He was the founding Co-Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at the CUNY Graduate Center and is one of the pioneers of scholarly work on Middle Eastern Americans. He is the co-author of Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond and the co-editor of Ethnic Los Angeles, which won the best book award of the International Migration section of the American Sociological Association.

Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race and co-author of Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age, which received the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the American Sociological Association. He is editor or co-editor of numerous collections including Global Cities Local Streets, The Urban Ethnography Reader and Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of The New Second Generations, and a former President of the Eastern Sociological Society.

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