Ali Ahmida featured in Courier interview

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, was the featured interview of the week in the Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier Sept. 9, 2010. Ahmida, who was recently named as the UNE Ludcke Chair of Liberal Arts and Sciences for 2010-11, explained that scholarship is a "passion, this is the way I was trained and educated. I love doing research. I try to see both teaching and scholarship as linked and not separate." His most recent books are Bridges Across the Sahara: Social, Economic and Cultural Impact of the Trans-Sahara Trade during the 19th and 20th Centuries and Post-Orientalism: Critical Reviews in North African Social and Cultural History (in Arabic).

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