Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Morocco Brings Islamic Viewpoint to BCC, Community

For the third consecutive year, Bellevue Community College has been awarded a grant from the prestigious Council for the International Exchange of Scholars of the U.S. Fulbright Program to host an international scholar-in-residence.

Joining BCC for spring quarter will be Dr. Ahmed Radi of Morocco, who will share his expertise in Islamic and Moroccan culture with the college and the local community.

Dr. Radi is a Professor of English at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakesh, Morocco, and has authored three books – Re-Reading Joyce, Aesthetics and Politics in Virginia Woolf's ‘To the Lighthouse’ and Ephemeral Fragments, a volume of poetry – as well as numerous scholarly articles. Since 1992 he has served on the editorial board of Signs, a journal on Moroccan culture.

At BCC Dr. Radi will present lectures on Islamic and Moroccan society and culture and work with faculty to enhance BCC's curriculum on Islam.

Dr. Radi also will be available for presentations and discussions in the community. To arrange a presentation, contact Diane Douglas at (425) 564-2550 or by email at ddouglas@bcc.ctc.edu.

BCC’s scholar-in-residence program, now in its fifth year, is a project of the college’s Center for Liberal Arts. Information on the Center’s academic, cultural and civic engagement activities is available on-line at www.bcc.ctc.edu/liberalarts.