Anouar Majid appointed to Maine Humanities Council Board

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., associate provost for global initiatives and director of the UNE Center for Global Humanities, has been appointed to the Maine Humanities Council's Board.

The Maine Humanities Council is an independent, statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the people of Maine deepen their understanding of themselves, their communities, and the world. The Council works with volunteer literacy programs, educators, school systems and libraries to promote the power and pleasure of ideas through its programming; the Council also provides grants supporting projects in community history, exhibits, workshops and other areas of study.

In announcing the appointment, the Council noted that Majid is the author of several acclaimed books on Islam, America, and the West. His work has been profiled by Bill Moyers in Bill Moyers Journal and by Al Jazeera's Date in Exile program. He has lectured and given keynote addresses at major universities and cultural institutions in the United States and around the world. He is the author of Si Yussef, a novel first published in 1992.