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About the Author

Anouar Majid is author of A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent is Vital to Islam and America (Minnesota, 2007). He is professor of English and founding director of the Center for Global Humanities at the University of New England in Maine and editor of Tingis, a Moroccan American magazine of ideas and culture.

Praise for We Are All Moors: Ending Centuries of Crusades Against Muslims and Other Minorities…

“Majid draws much-needed comparisons between events leading to atrocities like the Spanish Inquisition and present attitudes and trends, including growing disdain for Muslims in Europe and Hispanics in the U.S. Further, he shows how nations are strengthened by the acceptance and integration of the foreign (as is the trend, following initial xenophobic fits, in the U.S.), while cultural expulsion and/or cleansing hurts people and states (as in Germany's post-WWII ‘occupation and dismemberment’). With this intriguing historical analysis, Majid sounds a clear warning against the West's latest slide toward cultural scapegoating.” —Publishers Weekly

“An alternative history of European xenophobia that will stimulate and provoke readers across the political spectrum. This work will generate criticism and conversation; it will be taken up by intellectual reading clubs as well as graduate seminars and should be made available to all academic audiences as well as informed readers.” —Library Journal

"Majid’s book is a magnificent discussion of critical issues . . . . It is an important find for the most uninformed to the most sophisticated reader. " —CHOICE