Mark Cohen has had an impressive forty-year career teaching about Jews in the Islamic world, and in this article, he talks about his recent visiting professorship in Abu Dhabi where he found Muslim students “very curious about Jews, Judaism and Jewish-Muslim relations, while thirsting at the same time to be disassociated from the murderous Islamic extremism that plagues the world today.”
Acclaimed Judaic Professor Teaches In Abu Dhabi
Original article by Mark R. Cohen published in the Jewish Daily Forward on 02/08/2015