Dina Ibrahim

In total, I encountered professor Dina Ibrahim for three classes as SFSU. Despite my having received reasonably good grades in all of the three classes, I must confess that I have found her to be extremely arrogant, and intimidating when students wanted to bring new ideas into the lecture hall.

She hides behind her ethnicity as a means of pretending that she is tolerant and international in her thinking. Because I may speak with an American accent, but I remind students that I am of a different ethnicity, does this mean to suggest that I am being international in my thinking? I think not!

She is a professor who goes out of her way to appear assertive; looking at her student eye-to-eye, with her fervent intermingle of soft humour and a 'don't mess with me' touch! - During Summer 2006, I was registered into her BECA 370 class. One day, she spent at least 20 minutes telling us about how faculty and students continually ask her if she's: a student, a sophomore, or a senior. She considers herself to be so beautiful, and intelligent, she's God's gift to man. Oh yes, academic ability, sometimes [but not always] go hand-in-hand with intelligence!

For the most part, her classes were obsessed with political correctness, downright boring and she totally lacked the ability to relate to the analytical skills employed yesteryear, or even to how journalists and reporters currently do their work overseas. This faced with the fact that many of BECA students are [high fee-paying] international students. if she's so wonderful, why does she not continue to work for The British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC?