Masood Raja
Author of The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America (Palgrave, 2016) Dr. Masood Ashraf Raja is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Theory and the editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies.
Dr. Raja specializes in politics of the Islamic world, issues of Islamic radicalism, and US relations with the Muslim world with a specific focus on Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Dr. Raja moved from Pakistan, his native country, to America in 1996 after ten years of military service as an officer in the Pakistan army. Raja hopes to foster a better understanding between the people of his primary culture and the rest of the world through his writings, teaching assignments, and through public intellectual exchanges.
Author of The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America (Palgrave, 2016) Dr. Masood Ashraf Raja is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Theory and the editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies.
Dr. Raja specializes in politics of the Islamic world, issues of Islamic radicalism, and US relations with the Muslim world with a specific focus on Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Dr. Raja moved from Pakistan, his native country, to America in 1996 after ten years of military service as an officer in the Pakistan army. Raja hopes to foster a better understanding between the people of his primary culture and the rest of the world through his writings, teaching assignments, and through public intellectual exchanges.
US Relations with the Muslim World
This program provides a broad historical overview of US relations and interactions with the Muslim world and brings that historical knowledge to bear upon the current perception of the US in the Islamic world.
This program will ensure that the audience members...
Humanistic Education in the Twenty-First Century
Closely related to Masood's academic expertise, this program highlights the importance of humanities in an increasingly materialistic world. Masood has delivered this lecture to various audiences, including an audience of science researchers at Faisalabad Agricultural University, and has convincingly made the case for humanities and a humanistic education.
The audience members will leave the talk with a clear understanding of the role of humanities in creating and...
Book Club Workshop
This program is designed to hold a book club discussion about a book previously chosen by the members of a book club. As a literary critic, I am conversant with various methods of reading and responding to literary texts and the workshop will focus on these aspects of critical reading of a chosen text.
The audience would benefit more if their chosen book also corresponds to one or more areas of my cultural expertise. I can also recommend a list of world literature texts for the book...
