Dr. Saba Fatima

Department: Philosophy

Country of origin: Pakistan

How long have you been in the United States? Since 1998

What languages do you speak other than English? Urdu

What are your areas of research interest? Feminist & race theory; virtue ethics; social and political within prescriptive Islam; non-ideal theory

How long have you been at SIUE? Since 2012

What do you like most about SIUE? My departmental peers (and it helps that the campus is simply gorgeous)

What do you find to be the biggest difference between the United States and your home country?

One does not encounter corruption as often during one's everyday existence in United States and people in Pakistan are perhaps more community-oriented and interdependent in ways that help guard against many social problems.