Anouar Majid cited in article on North African writers and intellectuals

In an article on the website ", Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world," Carool Kersten, lecturer in Islamic Studies at King’s College London, discusses diasporic Moroccan and other North African writers, among them Anouar Majid, Ph.D., Â鶹´«Ã½professor on English and Language Studies and director of UNE's Center for Global Humanities: "Literary scholar Anouar Majid established his name with studies such as Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World. Straddling the worlds of literature and academia, they also show themselves as critical Muslims or exponents of a cosmopolitan reading of Islam."

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