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Anouar Majid speaks at Oslo’s House of Literature

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., vice president for Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Humanities, recently gave a lecture in Oslo, Norway’s House of Literature, the largest organization in Europe dedicated to promoting interest in literature, reading and issues of free speech.

Majid talked about the need to encourage critical thinking in Islamic thought.

The lecture was attended by approximately 350 people, including the ambassadors of Iraq and Spain, as well as a high official from Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.   

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