Neda Maghbouleh is an American sociologist, scholar, writer, author, and educator.
[1][2] She is the Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity and associate professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
[11] The Limits of Whiteness also discusses the "Aryan narrative" used to describe Iranians by both the people in Iran and by the diaspora, and the formation of biases.
[12] When the book was first published many older Iranian Americans did not understand or agree with the book, but after Executive Order 13769 (also known more commonly as "Trump travel ban") in early 2017 many felt a more complicated relationship to race due to new legal challenges and restrictions.
[10] She has been recognized as an authority on the racialization of migrants from the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region,[13][14][15][16][17] and has written for CBC Radio, Newsweek, NPR's Code Switch, Salon.com, Vice, and Vox Media.