[2199] in peace2
Fisk ALSO speak today at Harvard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Voelker)
Tue Feb 4 14:13:23 2003
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REMINDER (this is the Harvard talk, he also speaks at MIT tomorrow, Wednesday)
***** ROBERT FISK at HARVARD *****
"Ask all you like about 9/11 - but for heaven's sake don't ask why"
A talk by Dr. Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent for the Independent of London
Tuesday, February 4th
Austin Hall, North Room (building on the south end of the Law School Campus)
Harvard Law School
7-9 PM
Dr. Fisk's talk will assemble the Boston community for an
intellectual examination of September 11th as America debates war
with Iraq, as well as the response of American journalism to the
issues of the Middle East critical to the American public in the wake
of the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
Over his years as a journalist, Dr. Fisk covered the Iranian
revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf war, and the conflict
in Algeria. Dr. Fisk has been the recipient of several awards for his
work, is a seven-time winner of the British International Journalist
of the Year award, a two-time winner of the Amnesty International UK
Press Award, and a winner of the John Hopkins SIAS-CIBA Prize for
International Journalism. Dr. Fisk is also the author of three books:
The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster
(1975), In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality
(1982, 1983), and Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (1990, 1992).
This event is funded by: Harvard's Center for Middle East Studies
Brown Bag Forum, Harvard's Contemporary Arab Studies Program,
Harvard's Initiative for Peace and Justice, Harvard's Palestine
Solidarity Committee, MIT's Dean of Graduate Students Office, MIT's
Center for International Studies, MIT's Dean of Humanities Office,
and MIT's Technology and Culture Forum.
For directions, see http://map.harvard.edu
E-mail psc@hcs.harvard.edu for more information.
