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Anouar Majid speaks in Morocco on the doomed Arab Spring

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., director of the Center for Global Humanities and associate provost for Global Initiatives, gave a lecture to students on March 1, 2013, at Morocco's Institut Sup茅rieur de l'Information et de la Communication (Higher Institute for Information and Communication) titled "Tradition and Cultural Change: Reflections on the Arab Spring."

In his talk, Majid explained why the Arab Spring is doomed to remain a failed experiment as long as Muslims do not acquire the courage to question the foundations of their cultural systems.

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