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Amra Sabic-El-Rayess Writes on COVID and Racial Injustice, Drawing on Circumstances during the Bosnian War
September 3, 2020

In a new article, Amra Sabic-El-Rayess (Associate Professor of Practice, Teachers College) writes on COVID, racial justice and the importance of teachers, drawing heavily on her own experiences during the Bosnian War:

As both a scholar who studies the radicalization of politically marginalized people and a Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) who grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the ethnic cleansing of the 1990s, I have seen firsthand just how important direct teacher-student interactions are during dark times like these.

Read the whole piece at the Teachers College website.

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