Anouar Majid interviewed by Moroccan newspaper; his latest book discussed in op-ed column

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, was interviewed by Mohamed Asaadi of Akhbar al Yawm, a leading Moroccan newspaper on his views about Spanish-Moroccan, US-Muslim, and Israeli-Arab relations. In the interview, Majid challenges all sides to rethink their assumptions and belief systems, including religious ones. He urges Muslims to see the United States and Israel as allies in the challenge of development and building a better future. The interview took place on May 22. 2012 in Rabat, the capital of Morocco.

The caption the newspaper ran under the photo of Majid partly reads: "He has been called in the West the Moroccan Edward Said. . . . His books are quite controversial but have not been translated into Arabic. . . . Akbar al Yawm interviewed Anouar Majid before the lecture he gave at University Mohamed V in Rabat on American Arab relations in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamists to power in the Arab world."

Majid's latest book, Islam and America, is also the subject of an op-ed piece by Dr. Hassan Aourid in Morocco's major financial weekly, Le Vie Eco (Economic Life). Dr. Aourid's article is titled "Comment écraser l'infâme?" or "How to Crush Infamy?"

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