The speakers will be Sohail Al-Shaer, producer and writer for Alhurra TV in Washington D.C. and William Samii, senior Iran analyst and regional analysis coordinator for Southwest Asia and the Middle East at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
The lecture and discussion will be Tuesday, November 14 from 1-2:15 p.m. in the Kirkhof Center's Grand River Room on the Allendale Campus. Alhurra (Arabic for "The Free One ") is a commercial-free Arabic language satellite television network for the Middle East devoted primarily to news and information. Alhurra is operated by non-profit Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., which financed by the American people through the U.S Congress. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southwestern Asia, funded by the U.S. Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
For more information, contact James Goode at 331-3184 or [email protected] or Barb Blankemeier at [email protected]
