[Peace-discuss] AWARE organized Anthony Shadid visit to U-C 3/7-3/8

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	Anthony Shadid, 37, is the Middle East correspondent for the Washington 
Post. Since September 11, 2001, he has reported from most countries in the 
Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was 
wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank. In 
March 2003, weeks before the U.S. invasion, he traveled to Iraq, his third 
visit there. He remained in Baghdad during the invasion, the fall of Saddam 
Hussein and the war’s aftermath. In 2005, he moved to Beirut, from where he 
has covered the rest of the Arab world.
	Before the Post, Shadid worked for the Boston Globe in Washington, covering 
diplomacy and the State Department. He began his career at the Associated 
Press in Milwaukee, New York, Los Angeles and Cairo, where he worked as a 
Middle East correspondent from 1995 to 1999. He is a native of Oklahoma 
City, where his grandparents emigrated from Lebanon, and a graduate of the 
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
	Shadid was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2004 
for his dispatches from Iraq. That year, he was also the recipient of the 
American Society of Newspaper Editors' award for deadline writing and the 
Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper or wire service 
reporting from abroad. In 2003, Shadid was awarded the George Polk Award for 
foreign reporting for a series of dispatches from the Middle East while at 
the Globe. In 1997, Shadid was awarded a citation by the Overseas Press Club 
for his work on “Islam’s Challenge.” The four-part series, published by the 
AP in December 1996, formed the basis of his book, Legacy of the Prophet: 
Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of Islam, published by Westview 
Press in December 2000. His second book, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in 
the Shadow of America’s War, was published in September 2005 by Henry Holt.



Tuesday, March 7:

   noon...radio taping for Stephen Hartnett's radio shows (WEFT,WRFU)

   2-5pm...participation in Stephen Hartnett's Rhetoric of Social Justice 
graduate seminar

   5:15-6:15pm....dinner with AWARE Presents working group members, local 
"Iraqi Voices' participants

   7-9pm..."Night Draws Near" reading, discussion, 1st Presbyterian Church, 
602 W Green St, U

Wednesday, March 8:

   am...probable working session with Dept of Journalism faculty and 
students

   11-11:45am..appearance on WILL Focus 580 radio program

   12-1:30pm...lunchtime "conversation" with members of Speech 
Communication, Global Studies, the Institute for Communications Research and 
the public, #149 National Soybean Research Lab

   2:15-3:50pm...participation in current events/social justcie classes at 
University High School

   7-9pm..."Legacy of the Prophet" short discussion (history of political 
Islam), long Q&A period

Organized by AWARE
Funded by SORF & other co-sponsors:  University YMCA, School for Designing a 
Society, St. Patrick's Social Action Committee, St. Jude's Catholic Worker's 
House, Interfaith Alliance, U-C Friend's Meeting, Channing-Murray 
Foundation, The Peace & Justice Initiative at First Mennonite Church, 
Vietnam Veteran's Against the War, Prairie Greens, Campus Greens, 
Progressive Resource Cooperative, Illinois Disciples Foundation, World 
Harvest Foods, Muslim Women's Outreach, UI Dept of Speech Communications, UI 
International Programs & Studies, Illinois Program for Research in 
Humanities, UI Dept of Journalism, Ui Institute on Communications Research, 
and UI Working Group on Globalization & Empire