Writings and whatnot
"Good schools, bad schools." Contexts (Winter 2024)
“Looking beyond the ‘bad apple’ cop.” The Crime Report (January 5, 2021)
“American women on the verge: A review of Ada Calhoun’s Why We Can’t Sleep.” The Society Pages (February 20, 2020)
“ASK THE EXPERTS: What NYC should do with the Specialized High School Admissions Test.” (With David Bloomfield, Zakiya Ansari, and Soo Kim.) City & State New York (March 20, 2019)
“It's the peer effect, stupid: What makes schools like Stuyvesant great? It's not test-based admission, but a broader culture of excellence.” (With Margaret M. Chin.) New York Daily News (February 20, 2019)
“Merit and the admissions debates at Harvard University and Stuyvesant High School.” (With Margaret M. Chin.) The Society Pages (June 27, 2018)
“What the fight over New York's elite public high schools is really about.” (With Margaret M. Chin.) The Atlantic (June 14, 2018)
"Watching the ethnographers." Contexts (Fall 2017)
"Romancing the data." (with Letta Page) Contexts (Spring 2016)
"Fast gentrifying neighborhoods, slow gentrifying schools." Infinite Mile (May, 2015)
“I gentrify Bed-Stuy.” Contexts (Winter 2014)
“Why the revolution will fly by Dubai.” Muftah (March 18, 2011)
“The Moslems are here -- be afraid!” Contexts (Fall 2010)
“In the Gulf, will migrant workers unite to break their chains?” Muftah (March 7, 2011)
“In Dubai, the party’s far from over.” The Guardian (March 20, 2010)
“You must come with us.” The Guardian (November 12, 2007)
Video presenting Dubai research at University of Chicago, 2011.
Podcast interview with Contexts, Spring 2010.
“A hard edge to Dubai’s glittering allure.” May 10, 2010, Los Angeles Times, A1.
Front-page story on my experience doing research in Dubai.
Peer-reviewed articles
“The importance of peers: Assimilation patterns among second-generation Turkish immigrants in Western Europe.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2014) (with Tineke Fokkema)
“Going and coming and going again: Second-generation migrants in Dubai." Mobilities (2011)
“Permanent impermanence.” Contexts (Spring 2010)
“Understanding acculturation among second-generation South Asian Muslims in the United States.”
Contributions to Indian Sociology (2008)
“‘Go west young man’: The culture of migration among Muslims in Hyderabad, India.”
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2007)
“Why here, why now? Young Muslim women wearing hijab.” Muslim World (2005)
“Collective and elective ethnicity: Caste among urban Muslims in India.” Sociological Forum (2002)
(Photo: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens.)
"Good schools, bad schools." Contexts (Winter 2024)
“Looking beyond the ‘bad apple’ cop.” The Crime Report (January 5, 2021)
“American women on the verge: A review of Ada Calhoun’s Why We Can’t Sleep.” The Society Pages (February 20, 2020)
“ASK THE EXPERTS: What NYC should do with the Specialized High School Admissions Test.” (With David Bloomfield, Zakiya Ansari, and Soo Kim.) City & State New York (March 20, 2019)
“It's the peer effect, stupid: What makes schools like Stuyvesant great? It's not test-based admission, but a broader culture of excellence.” (With Margaret M. Chin.) New York Daily News (February 20, 2019)
“Merit and the admissions debates at Harvard University and Stuyvesant High School.” (With Margaret M. Chin.) The Society Pages (June 27, 2018)
“What the fight over New York's elite public high schools is really about.” (With Margaret M. Chin.) The Atlantic (June 14, 2018)
"Watching the ethnographers." Contexts (Fall 2017)
"Romancing the data." (with Letta Page) Contexts (Spring 2016)
"Fast gentrifying neighborhoods, slow gentrifying schools." Infinite Mile (May, 2015)
“I gentrify Bed-Stuy.” Contexts (Winter 2014)
“Why the revolution will fly by Dubai.” Muftah (March 18, 2011)
“The Moslems are here -- be afraid!” Contexts (Fall 2010)
“In the Gulf, will migrant workers unite to break their chains?” Muftah (March 7, 2011)
“In Dubai, the party’s far from over.” The Guardian (March 20, 2010)
“You must come with us.” The Guardian (November 12, 2007)
Video presenting Dubai research at University of Chicago, 2011.
Podcast interview with Contexts, Spring 2010.
“A hard edge to Dubai’s glittering allure.” May 10, 2010, Los Angeles Times, A1.
Front-page story on my experience doing research in Dubai.
Peer-reviewed articles
“The importance of peers: Assimilation patterns among second-generation Turkish immigrants in Western Europe.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2014) (with Tineke Fokkema)
“Going and coming and going again: Second-generation migrants in Dubai." Mobilities (2011)
“Permanent impermanence.” Contexts (Spring 2010)
“Understanding acculturation among second-generation South Asian Muslims in the United States.”
Contributions to Indian Sociology (2008)
“‘Go west young man’: The culture of migration among Muslims in Hyderabad, India.”
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2007)
“Why here, why now? Young Muslim women wearing hijab.” Muslim World (2005)
“Collective and elective ethnicity: Caste among urban Muslims in India.” Sociological Forum (2002)
(Photo: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens.)
