[Peace] Iraqi journalist to speak January 2, 2008

[Karen Medina]

Salam Talib presents on his journalistic work in Iraq
Wednesday, January 2 @ 7 PM
in the IMC Family Room*
202 S. Broadway Ave., Urbana.  
Free and open to the public.

Salam Talib was an Independent Iraqi reporter until 2 years ago when he decided he could not stay in Iraq any longer. 

Salam is from Bagdad and contracted polio at age 2. His parents made a critical decision to go ahead and enroll him in school. In high school, his father introduced him to computers. He worked as a computer programmer and founded the Computer Learning Mobile Project, which is designed to teach computer skills to disabled residents in Iraq. After the US invasion of Iraq, he became a translator for some journalists. Then he realized that he could skip the middle man and write the news stories himself.  

Come Wednesday evening and discuss the US occupation of Iraq with Salam Talib.  Mr. Talib was the Iraq affairs correspondent for Free Speech Radio News from 2003-2005 during which he filed over 500 stories from the ground in Iraq. He is co-author of a number of stories with Aaron Glantz, author of How American Lost Iraq.  His work has been featured in the Nation, Common Dreams, and Antiwar.com. He has worked with Kathy Kelly.

* The IMC, where the discussion will take place, is located in the downtown Urbana Post Office building at Elm and Broadway. The event will be in the basement in what is called the Family Room. Enter for the event from Elm Street on the stairs going to the lower level. 

For more information or to request an interview contact Danielle at chyn at ucimc.org or 217-278-3933 x15.

For more background information on Salam Talib himself, see:
http://afsc.org/iraq/personal_stories/entries/052604-2.htm