Monday, March 23rd Meet and Greet
3:00-5:00 pm (come anytime!) OCGE 205
Tuesday, March 24th “Human Rights in the Middle East”
4:00-5:00 pm (OCGE 107)
Thursday, March 26th Public Address: “The Arab Spring, Four Years Later”
7:00-9:00 pm (Kirby 104)
Friday, March 27th Brown Bag: “Women in the Middle East”
12:00-1:00 pm (OCGE 107)
Deborah Horan, former journalist, spent eight years covering the Middle East while based in Jerusalem and subsequently covered the war in Iraq, initially from Lebanon and Egypt and then from Baghdad. She covered events in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Iraq, and Iran, mainly for the Houston Chronicle. In 2001, she was awarded a Knight Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she studied the rise of Al-Jazeera television. In 2002, she joined the Chicago Tribune and was assigned to cover Beirut, Cairo, and Iraq in 2003 and 2004, in the early years of the Iraq War. Since 2008, she has been working in Washington, D.C., and currently works for a food policy research institute
Sponsored by: International Affairs, Amnesty Int’l. Club and Office of the Provost