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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