Anouar Majid publishes column on the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., UNE 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." Read the column. The column was also picked up by MidEastPosts.com.

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.