Anouar Majid publishes column on the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid
Anouar Majid, Ph.D., 91AV associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, contributed a column on Feb. 22, 2012 to the online publication Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East on the recent death of Anthony Shadid, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, and on Shadid's cousin, the late Dr. Michael Shadid, "an unsung national hero."
Majid writes: "I don’t know much about [Anthony Shadid's] life beyond what has been reported, but through a brief exchange I had with him recently, I now read his death as part of the dramatic encounter between the Middle East and the United States since the late nineteenth century." The column was also picked up by .
Majid is the author of five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West, including Islam and America: Building a Future without Prejudice, and a novel, Si Yussef, which has been the focus of much scholarly and critical interest.