<br clear="all"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:14pt">Nada Alwadi</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt"> will be a <b>Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence Sept 30 – Oct 5</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"></span>All of her events are open to the public and take place in Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana.<font size="4"><u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Nada Alwadi </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">is a Bahraini journalist, writer, and researcher who writes about politics and human rights issues in the Middle East. Alwadi covered the recent crackdown in Bahrain for several international media outlets including <i>USA Today</i>. In 2011, she was one of the recipients of the first James Lawson Award for Nonviolent Achievement by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Alwadi co-founded the Bahraini Press Association which seeks to defend local and international journalists who have been attacked or targeted by the Bahraini authorities.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Sunday, Sept 30</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:14pt"> 7 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<b style="font-size:14pt">Opening Program: Meet Nada Alwadi </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>(in the South Rec Room)</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><i><br></i></font>Bahraini journalist Nada Alwadi talks about her experiences covering a Middle Eastern uprising and being detained by the Bahraini authorities while a number of her fellow Bahraini journalists were murdered, tortured, or sentenced to long prison terms by the regime.<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt">Monday, Oct 1<br>7 pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> <b>Bahrain, A Forgotten Story of the Arab Spring: A View from the Inside </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>(in the South Rec Room)</i><br>The uprising in Bahrain, strategic nonviolence, media neglect, and US influence and involvement.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt">9 pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">Tea and and hummus </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<i>(in the guest apartment)</i><font size="4"> </font><br>
discussion of the Arab Spring and strategic nonviolence<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<u></u> <font size="4"><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Tuesday, Oct 2<br>
7 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Challenging Stereotypes of Middle Eastern Women </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>(in the South Rec Room)</i><br>
Involvement of women in the Arab Spring, status of women in the Middle East, Islamic feminism.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<u></u> <font size="4"><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">9 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:14pt">International Snackie Night </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>(in the guest apartment)</i> <br>discussion of women in the Middle East<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt">Wednesday, Oct 3<br>7 pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font><b style="font-size:14pt">The Game of the Media </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>(in the South Rec Room)</i><br>
How the media shapes our perceptions of the world, media ownership and agenda setting, challenges of new media, social media during the Arab spring.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<u></u> <font size="4"><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">9pm:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"> Dip it with Nada </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>(in the guest apartment)<br>
</i>discussion of media politics and social media<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt">Thursday, Oct 4:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font><span style="font-size:18.399999618530273px">7 pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:18.399999618530273px"> </span><b style="font-size:14pt">US Foreign Policy towards the Middle East and the US Elections </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i style="font-size:14pt"> </i><i>(in the South Rec Room)</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Mistakes and challenges for US foreign policy. Views of Arab-Americans on the upcoming elections.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<u></u> <font size="4"><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">9 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font size="4">Tea time hosted by the 4th floor </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>(in the guest apartment)</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
discussion of the elections and US foreign policy<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> </span></p></div>