El Mundo’s coverage of Beat Generation conference features Anouar Majid’s lecture
The last paragraph of a long article/commentary in the major Spanish newspaper El Mundo about a recent conference on Beat Generation writers was reserved to Anouar Majid, Ph.D., vice president for Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Humanities, and his view on the expatriate community in Tangier.
The newspaper commented that Majid’s lecture was upsetting to Westerners at the conference because he outlined the reasons why the heterogeneous group of expatriates in Tangier barely had an impact on the lives of locals.
El Mundo quotes Majid as saying: "The community of Westerners hardly got out of its exclusive spheres, never learned the language, and used the city as an exotic setting for its First World preoccupations. Interestingly, this is the same complaint heard against immigration in advanced countries."