Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Thomas Madden, one of my mentors, has a new piece in the Washington Post on ISIS and the Crusades. In it, he rehearses the ways in which the memory of the Crusades was carried by Western European people into the colonial era and thus brought the European ideas about the Crusades into the Islamic world. Modern …
Hey @rutgersu check this prof’s email to student asking to take off #EidAlAdha (student’s name removed upon request) pic.twitter.com/hMuZx1SyMB — Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) September 23, 2015 The above tweet details a snotty response to a student asking for an excused absence for Eid Al Adha. It’s rude. It’s arrogant. It’s demeaning. It implies that the …