- anouar majid
We are All Moors:
Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and Other Minorities
with
Anouar Majid
Author, We Are All Moors and Director of the Center for Global Humanities, University of New England
and featuring
H.E. Ambassador Aziz Mekouar
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United States
The Institute for Middle East Studies and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco present a special event featuring an introduction by Moroccan Ambassador Aziz Mekouar and a book discussion with Anouar Majid. Majid will be discussing his newest book, We Are All Moors: Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and other Minorities.
In We Are All Moors, Anouar Majid contends that the acrimonious debates about immigration and Islam in the West are the cultural legacy of the conflict between Christians and Moors. Offering a groundbreaking new history of the West’s perception and treatment of minority cultures, Majid explores how “the Moor” emerged as the archetypal Other against which Europe would define itself. The characteristics attributed to this quintessential minority—racial inferiority, religious impurity, cultural incompatibility—would be reapplied to other non-European and non-Christian peoples: Native Americans, black Africans, Jews, and minority immigrant communities, among others.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Lindner Family Commons
Room 602, 1957 E Street, NW
**A reception hosted by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco
will follow the book discussion**
RSVP to rsvpimes@gwu.edu
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