Hamoud Salhi, assistant professor of political science at California State University, Dominguez Hills, presented “Sunni and Shi’ia: What’s the Problem and Why it Matters” at The Center for Religious Inquiry in Los Angeles last month. In trying to demystify issues surrounding the Middle East, he says that his insider’s perspective from having lived in an Arab Muslim country benefits his students.

When Vivian Price was working on her master’s degree in history at the University
of Texas at Austin, she took a job in a fiberglass boat factory. Later, she worked in a number of different factories after that, in electronics and pharmaceuticals, even a steel mill. Her interest in labor, particularly women in the workplace, propelled her to a
career as an educator and filmmaker. As an instructor in labor studies at California State
University, Dominguez Hills and advisor to the Labor Studies Group, a student organization, she is enthusiastic about bringing the Almudena Carracedo’s documentary, “Made in L.A.” to the campus on Mar. 10.