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How Are the Media Covering Issues
Facing the Middle East Today?
Free campus event features local journalists

April 29, 2005:: No. 190

A symposium on "The Role of Media in the Middle East During Times of Peace and Global Tension" will be held at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 3, at Cal State Fullerton.

The event in the Titan Student Union's Portola Pavilion is open to the public free of charge.

The keynote address will be delivered by David Jackson, co-anchor of the evening news at KCAL 9. Jackson covered Gulf War I and the war in Iraq, and recently returned from Egypt following an assignment there.

Michael Tharp, reporter for USA Today and a Cal State Fullerton lecturer in communications, will moderate the panel discussion that follows.

The panelists include: Munir Mawari, correspondent for the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper; Luqaman Ahmed, bureau chief, Al Arabiya TV; Mawfaq Harb, executive director, Alhurra television; and author Benjamin J. Hubbard, chair and professor of comparative religion at Cal State Fullerton.

The symposium is hosted by the Office of Public Affairs and Government Relations in partnership with the College of Communications. Mercedes-Benz is sponsoring the event.

Public parking will be available in Lot A for $4 per vehicle.

Media Contacts:

Susan Katsaros, Public Affairs and Government Relations, 657-278- 4854 or skatsaros@fullerton.edu

Fred Zandpour, associate dean, College of Communications, 657-278-3853 or fzandpour@fullerton.edu


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