THE WORST TEACHER I EVER HAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bad teacher, dont take him!!!

He is the worst teacher ever!! He is very unclear and is an extremely hard grader, the class topic is interesting but he makes it very boring and unbearable to sit through. Do NOT TAKE HIM!

Never disagreed more with a professor and have never been as undermined as with him.

worst teacher imaginable: less intelligent than 75% of his students

he is confused

I took Layachi as my undergrad course (I am an honors student). I think if he likes you he can be the best teacher but if he doesn't, you are in for a major ride. Unfortunately he did not like me. I was lucky that I busted my butt and managed to get a good grade. However I feel I did not learn much. Layachi is very limited and full of himself...

Avoid at all costs. gives a ridiculous amount of work with no time to do it in, including group projec, 10 trips to different museums and atractions with a paper on each. he does NO teaching, the students do ALL the work. he might as well not even be there.

Worst professor ever! DO NOT TAKE! takes way too much time taking attendance. Gives too much work for a DNY class. Personally do not take unless if you have no other hard classes. He will make sure his class is above all other courses. His final consists of chapters he hasn't even taught. Throughout the entire class he didn't teach one single thing

Waste of time. Transfer out, or drop the class while you still have time.

I have met few people so obsessed with themselves more than Dr. Layachi. He feels that no one's time is more important than his own. In Dr. Layachi's world, students have one class (his) and don't have external events that affect their ability to show up. Moreover, we spent more time talking about his family and personal life than subject matter.

One of the worst professors I have ever had. First off, he blabers about complete nonsense that has nothing to do with anything almost ALL the time. He doesn't teach anything and his tests are incredibly hard due to the lack of teaching. He also gives a lot of homework that has nothing to do with anything.. If you get him for DNY, GET OUT.

TERRIBLE, avoid taking, extremely arrogant and assigns more work than all of my other professors combined

Literally worst professor here at St. John's University. St. John's is not that great itself so having him here makes it worse for the student community and the educational structure. He does not care about you much and will only talk about democracy. Do not take him, he is not good.

Extremely rude and egotistical. The time he spends talking about nonsense and his personal life is a disgrace to St. Johns. Buyer beware.

Stay away from Layachi. He's a bitter and very passive aggressive Napoleon-type. I met to speak with him after class and he was inappropriate and unprofessional. I did inform the dean of his behavior. Do not meet with him by yourself (I'm female). Buyer beware.

He was difficult to understand and he failed to clarify on several occasions. He's the only professor I had an issue with. Choose another professor.

find another professor. plain and simple.

You will learn a lot, not from him, from the readings, do them. Overall not a good professor. He changes the syllabus and paper your topic almost weekly. He goes off on political rants that most of time have nothing to do with the class. Gives extremely demeaning criticisms on papers. The student is never right, question him, you'll regret it.

I'm not sure If these good reviews were written by him, but it sure seems so. Most of the people in my program don't recommend him. Unprofessional and sometimes a bit mean and catty. Emails passive aggressive articles about time management and Is not understanding when students' lives conflict with assignments. The workload is also quite heavy.

Don't take him. He's made multiple students cry in front of the class, he WILL put you on blast in front of your classmates. Nothing is ever good enough or right. His emails are passive aggressive, and if you don't do EXACTLY what he says, you're wrong. Every bad review on here is true, not sure how he has more than a 1 on here--Find another prof.

All the positive reviews must be from Layachi himself! I have never posted on Rate before, but this class was enough to force me to make an account. He has no grading system and the majority of the assignments were never graded. Professor Layachi was aggressive toward students and made multiple students cry in class. Do not take him! EVER!

Do not take this class with Layachi. One of the worse academic experiences that I have had at SJU. While He does care for the students he is so out of touch that he made several cry for not agreeing with his points. The grading system is subjective and most of the assignments were never even reviewed. DO NOT TAKE!

Guys, it's quite simple. Do Not Take This Class! Enough Said!

By far the worst professor you can have. 5% of the time he is a nice guy, but hes demeaning, rude, and completely awful to freshman students. Everyone in my class said privately how stressed out they were. He didnt teach us. When we asked for help, he would tell us we were not smart enough. Just a horrible experience. Meeting with deans office.

WORST PROFESSOR EVER. Gave my class ZERO feedback on any assignment we did. A total of 19 Major assignments. The guy even graded EXTRA CREDIT as actual grades! Meaning if you didnt do well on the extra credit, he counted it towards your grade!! Extremely bitter and will belittle students in front of everyone. Ruined my GPA. Horrible class.

This was the worst class ever. 18 MAJOR assignments, hours of reading every night, never gave us any feedback and waited to tell us AFTER all assignments that we did it wrong (so we never had chance to correct). Counted EXTRA CREDIT as real grades, so if you did poor on EXTRA CREDIT, he put it towards your grade. Horrible mean man, bitter.

Lets just say that a majority of the class supposedly pass failed. Made things even harder with COVID-19 pandemic. Didnt give us any feedback or help entire semester. Also said he didnt care if we had other classes we need to learn to balance. Yet gives us enough work to last all 4 years of college. Wish I pass failed. Beyond scared of grade.

Honestly very upset with this class. Professor Layachi despite having spurts of being nice and funny, was usually mean and cold. His class was extremely unorganized, his grading was awful, he gave zero feedback, everyone was confused and stressed. Most of class Pass/Failed. Truly the worst experience Ive had at SJU. Stay away. Stress 24/7. Not fun

Ruined my GPA, should have pass failed. What a joke of a class. Nasty professor. Gave us so much work, didnt help us at all. Pulled information straight from textbook and said we were all wrong and he was appalled by our stupidity. What he thinks is correct, no one else can be. Freshman students beware. Doesnt care about your classes or feeling

I had Professor Layachi for research methods in political science and it was definitely the most stressful class ever. He does assign an insane amount of work but thats not even the main issue. He is extremely critical, often forgets what he told you, will not listen to your opinion, and he is always correct while the student is always wrong.

This is by far the worst academic experience Ive ever had. Do NOT ever take a course with this professor. He treats it as though no one else has any other obligations in their life (last minute assignments, last minute midterms) and takes FOREVER to grade. He gives assignments with unclear instructions and is never available for clarification

Im lucky I made it out alive. Please do not take this class if you dont have too. His grading is very harsh, almost completely dismantled my GPA. If you dont want to stress yourself out look for an alternate Professor.

If you ever need a reason to get a therapist, this is the class for you. Hes a nice guy until the first two weeks of class you have to do a weekly journal+3 lengthy chapters due before each class+10-15 research paper with other homework assignment he randomly assigns. I never smoked cigarettes but I suddenly started after this class. But hes nice

If you want to keep your GPA, don't take this professor. Worst professor I've taken in the gov and politics department. Unclear and tough grader, no matter how hard you work. Not accessible when you need help or ask questions, and is too arrogant to actually work with his students, instead of just telling them they are wrong. Definitely do not take

Horrible do not take. Ive never rated a professor but this time I had to warn everyone. Hes so difficult, gives a lot of work, lot of tests, the tests are hard. When I got in the 80s on a test he said This is ok, but it should be much better, I wonder what happened here. Try harder next time. Stressful for no reason, rude, and unreasonable.

He is unresponsive and not clear when giving directions. Also, when you ask for help he is usually unhelpful. He is not understanding and very clear cut. Things have to be done his way, or else you will be wrong and stupid. You're almost always wrong in his class. Stay clear if you can.

this professor will usually frown upon answers that arent specifically his exact ideas. His work is strenuous, tedious and always more extra than it has to be. He will prolong the class past the time that we are supposed to be there. he once went 30 minutes or 40 mins more. Hes passionate about the topic(s), but hes unreasonably tough.

I took this grad class as an elective, because my main major in the BA/MA was American govt, not IR. He was confusing. He gave directions but always changed his mind on all of it. If your answers were not the EXACT ones in his head, then you're WRONG. Unreasonable grader too. I FOUGHT HARD for my grade. Almost didn't want to pursue law b/c of him.

I never come on here and write reviews. He was very discouraging. He told people, including myself, that we plagirized when we didn't. If you don't answer things exactly the way HE wants, (even if they are correct), they will be wrong. He does seem to like his material, but it is not like other profs. You can take better ones at sju, believe me.

He's tenured and many tenured profs always grade harsher and are more prone to not truly being helpful lol. All i have to say is that if you truly care about your gpa, but you have other things going on (i.e like you work, have kids, etc) do not take him. Only professor that does not consider the fact that his students are human and have lives.

This professor does not understand contemporary american vernacular. is a little too proud with the material and promotes that his answers or POV are the only correct ones. Steer clear

assignment criteria changes a lot throughout the semester. Middle East class is interesting but other profs give great info on West Asia too. Only If you like North Africa topics specifically would you take the class.

I do not write reviews, but this professor angered me beyond belief. He was outwardly rude to me when I had reached out for help. Completely unresponsive to emails and only emails late at night, days later. Legitimately insulted my abilities at writing as a senior in college who has had maintained a 3.78 GPA.

WORST PROFESSOR EVERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAVE YOUR PERFECT GPA.

Stay away unless you are a fan of unclear instructions and busy work. This guy will post notes at 1 in the morning the day prior and expect you to know them all from a to z for an exam that he didn't even lecture for, because of a group project that went over time in the previous class (He didn't say at all how long the presentations should be).

Very passionate about topics, but gets so granular with the content he looses track of the lecture and fails to adequately educate students. Asks for all your effort and to accommodate him, but refuses to reciprocate for students. Honestly, passionate professor, but not worthy of your time or effort and wouldn't not recommend.

Very passionate but long past his prime. Constantly goes off topic from his self-made, outdated study guides to the point class ends. Sends home over 20 pages of notes he didn't get time to teach us and then puts it on the test 4 days after sending. Him doing this isn't completely uncommon across the semester. Shouldn't have an A; not tough grader.