[Peace-discuss] (AWARE Presents) Help bring Dahr Jamail to U-C on Oct 28th?

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

I wish you all the best in getting Dahr Jamail to come to U-C....  His column is probably the best real news 
source for events in the Middle East.  The only commentators that come even close to being as good as he 
is are probably Robert Fisk and Juan Cole.


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To:      peace-discuss at anti-war.net
Subject: [Peace-discuss] (AWARE Presents) Help bring Dahr Jamail to U-C on Oct 28th?
Date:    Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:58:08 +0000

> At last week's showing of the Norman Solomon "War Made Easy" documentary,
> Ryan Walker (rwalker {at} ravecomm.com) was looking for co-sponsors
> in hopes of bringing Middle East journalist Dahr Jamail here in
> late October.
> 
> (I hadn't met Ryan Walker before -- he may be with the ISO --
> and if so I'm not sure whether this is an ISO initiative or his own.)
> 
> Apparently Jamail will be spending a few days in the
> midwest promoting a book he's written with Amy Goodman,
>   "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an
>    Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq"
> and if we can make C-U look inviting enough,
> we might convince him to come here and speak.
> 
> A bio blurb on one of his recent articles (originally from truthdig)
>    Lebanon's Anti-Heroes
>    http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/18/1336/
> 
> says this of Jamail:
> 
>     Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist from Alaska who has
>     reported extensively from within occupied Iraq and elsewhere in the
>     Middle East. He writes regularly for the Sunday Herald, Inter Press
>     Service and the Ester Republic among other outlets. He is a special
>     correspondent for Flashpoints radio and appears on Democracy Now!,
>     Air America, Radio South Africa, Radio Hong Kong and numerous other
>     stations around the globe.
> 
> 
> Anyway I think this would be a great thing for AWARE to be involved in.
> I'll raise it at the AWARE Presents meeting (Aug 15th, 7pm at the Kruse home)
> but wanted to let the list know too.
> 
> 
> Above all, I'd like to thank Bob Naiman for bringing the War Made Easy
> film here, and *especially* for arranging for a question & answer session
> with Norman Solomon afterward, which Bob was able to do as one of the
> prime movers of Just Foreign Policy (www.justforeignpolicy.org).
> 
> And, thanks to Rev. Mike Mulberry and the UCC for being the hosts for
> last week's event!
> 
>    Stuart
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