Anouar Majid attends Metropolitan Museum of Art event for new Moroccan Court

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., associate provost for global initiatives and director of the UNE Center for Global Humanities, attended a presentation and luncheon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The March 21, 2011 event honored the Fez craftsmen and the Naji family for their contributions to creating the new Moroccan Court in the museum's Galleries for the Arts of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia. The president of the Met and consul general of the Kingdom of Morocco attended. Read a New York Times article on the new Moroccan Court or read Majid's blog.

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