Bashir Bashir

So today we had Old Testament class which is always enlightening, then we had our first class with our Palestine Teacher Dr. Bashir Bashir. He is a Palestinian Muslim with Israeli citizenship. He is my favorite professor thus far. He is extremely intelligent and a very passionate lecturer. His accent takes effort to follow, especially when combining his advanced vocabulary and his Palestinian accent. He gave a moving lecture on avoiding stereotypes, Xenophobia, and Xenophelia. He spoke of motivations for gaining knowledge and how we should be motivated by gaining understanding and not for self-affirmation, belligerency and outright war. I wish I could give justice to the power and passion that Bashir displayed when sharing his belief in understanding, sensitivity, and humble differentiation. It was very refreshing to be lectured to by someone who is so well educated and passionate, it was very motivating to me as a student and as a visitor here in the Holy Land to learn about the different cultures and religions. Other than that there was not much to write about today.