Ali Ahmida interviewed for Portland Press Herald story on Syria in college classrooms

Ali Adbullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of Political Science, was interviewed in a Sept. 10 Portland Press Herald story on "Maine college classrooms adapt to Syria spotlight."

"The first thing in class, we go over the news," said Ahmida, who is teaching a course in comparative social revolutions this semester. "I just try to get my students to feel comfortable, and see how much they know about it." Read the entire story.

Ahmida is the author of The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonialization and Resistance, and several other books on Libya and North Africa. 

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