Hicham Safieddine

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Dr. Hicham Safieddine is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Canada Research Chair in the History of the Modern Middle East.

"If university educators are serious about decolonization, they need to teach and engage with these histories. This is in fact what many teach-ins, peaceful student rallies, and other forms of active learning at UBC have sought to do since October 7," writes Dr. Hicham Safieddine.

If government policy is dictated by Machiavellian calculations of power, what is the excuse of academic institutions like UBC for failing to live up to their mandate of supporting efforts at decolonizing education?

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