Najam in Boston Herald on Attacks in the Middle East and Europe
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed about several attacks across the Middle East and Europe that occurred on December 19, 2016 including a truck plowing into revelers at a Christmas market in Germany, the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Ankara, Turkey and a shooting at a mosque in Zurich, Switzerland.
Najam was interviewed for a December 20, 2016 article in The Boston Herald entitled “Day of Deadly Violence Casts Dark Cloud on Holiday Week.”
From the text of the article:
“This has been such a terrible year of fear and anger and that’s probably also symbolism in how it will end,” said Adil Najam, the dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
“I guess we will live out this last week in as much fear as we have the previous ones because of this attack.”
You can read the entire article here.
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and was a former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore Pakistan. He had started his career as a newspaper reporter in his native Pakistan, including covering the 1988 election campaign of Benazir Bhutto that ended with her becoming Pakistan’s first female Prime Minister. Part of his research has focussed on Muslim and Pakistani diaspora in the United States. He is the author of Pakistanis in America: Portrait of a Giving Community (Harvard University Press, 2006) and co-editor of How Immigrants Impact their Homelands (Duke University Press, 2013). Learn more about him here.