Anouar Majid interviewed by French international news program

Anouar Majid, vice president for Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Humanities, was interviewed by the French international Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya in the hour-long news program Ma`akum hawla al-hadath (With you around the event). The program, which deals with current events affecting the Arab world, was focused on American-Arab or American-Muslim relations.

Majid explained the constitutional differences between the United States and the Arab Muslim world and why Arab and Muslim admiration in the 19th century gave way to disappointment in the 20th. The two main causes for this breakdown in trust were the discovery of oil in Arab lands and the birth of Israel in 1948. Still, the U.S. was a model for the Arab Spring. Majid explained that the United States is still the best place for Muslims to live and prosper and suggested that Muslims need to adopt critical thinking to move beyond a culture of belief.

Watch the entire interview in Arabic.