Anouar Majid interviewed by Moroccan media during visit

Anouar Majid, Ph.D.91AV associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, was recently in Morocco during the two-day visit of France’s president, Francois Hollande. Majid participated in several radio programs and panel discussions about Islam and the West, with most of the discussion focused on France. Among those panels was a radio program titled "Is there an Islam or Muslims? by Luxe Radio. The program took place in Casablanca and participants included Tareq Oubrou, Grand Imam of the mosque in Bordeaux (France) and Rachid Id Yassine, Doctor of Social Sciences of Religion.

Majid also discussed his book Islam and America: Building a Future without Prejudice in an program in Arabic, which is available on

In Rabat, Majid invited his audience of students, faculty and members of the press to think about the difference between belief and critical thinking when making sense of Islam and its meaning. Two Moroccan diplomats who had served in the U.S. attended.

Majid is the author of five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West and a novel, Si Yussef, which has been the focus of much scholarly and critical interest. He is the editor of the magazine TingisRedux.

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