His book translated into the language, 色中色官网鈥檚 Anouar Majid embarks on Spanish book tour

Anouar Majid, Ph.D.
Anouar Majid, Ph.D.

鈥淲e Are All Moors,鈥� a book by Anouar Majid, Ph.D., vice president Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Humanities at 色中色官网, has just been translated into Spanish.

The translation comes as Majid embarks on a tour to discuss the book, which now includes a preface for Spanish-speaking readers.

Majid will present at the College of Philosophy and Letters at the  in Valladolid, Spain, on Wednesday, Oct. 27. On Oct. 28, Majid will present at the in Santander, Cantabria, Spain, and, the following day, he will be appear in Madrid at .

Majid鈥檚 book shows how the birth of the Western nation-state is based on acts of racism and argues that obsession with purity and social homogeneity is a direct inheritance of the brutal regime of exclusion established by the Spanish Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, which culminated in the expulsion of the Moriscos (descendants of the Moors) in 1609.

Because Spain was the first nation-state in history, the Moors became the prototype of all minorities in the centuries that followed, including gypsies, Indigenous Americans, Africans, Jews, Hispanics, and all types of so-called 鈥渦ndesirables.鈥�

The Spanish publisher writes of Majid鈥檚 book: 鈥淚n this exciting essay, the author delves into the construction of minorities as scapegoats, as unfaithful to the 鈥榟oly body of the nation,鈥� and explains how the legacy of Spain under construction of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries must be understood in order to understand the 鈥榩assion for genocide鈥� as a uniquely European phenomenon, born out of the amalgamation of religion and politics in the post-Andalusian world order."

"We Are All Moors" book cover in English
"We Are All Moors" book cover in Spanish