Apropos to arguments made by Aaron Hughes about Jewish Studies being too Jewish, here’s a powerful profile in the NYT, which you can read here, about Mehnaz M. Afridi, assistant professor of religion at Mehnaz M. Afridi Manhattan College, where she teaches about Islam and about the Holocaust. She’s director of the school’s Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center, and the author of the forthcoming Shoah Through Muslim Eyes. Against the friend/enemy distinction, she has caught a lot of hell from both sides of the reactionary camps. This one goes under the banner “Muslims and Jews Refuse to be Enemies.” Also, she’s a Department of Religion, Syracuse University alum, where she received her MA, having worked with Alan Berger when he taught there.