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ANTHONY SHADID EVENT |
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by AWARE
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03 Mar 2006
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Pulitzer prize Journalist to vist U-C community.
March 7-8 |
Anthony Shadid, 37, is the Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post. Since September 11, 2001, he has reported from most countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank. In March 2003, weeks before the U.S. invasion, he traveled to Iraq, his third visit there. He remained in Baghdad during the invasion, the fall of Saddam Hussein and the war’s aftermath. In 2005, he moved to Beirut, from where he has covered the rest of the Arab world.
Before the Post, Shadid worked for the Boston Globe in Washington, covering diplomacy and the State Department. He began his career at the Associated Press in Milwaukee, New York, Los Angeles and Cairo, where he worked as a Middle East correspondent from 1995 to 1999. He is a native of Oklahoma City, where his grandparents emigrated from Lebanon, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Shadid was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2004 for his dispatches from Iraq. That year, he was also the recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' award for deadline writing and the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad. In 2003, Shadid was awarded the George Polk Award for foreign reporting for a series of dispatches from the Middle East while at the Globe. In 1997, Shadid was awarded a citation by the Overseas Press Club for his work on “Islam’s Challenge.” The four-part series, published by the AP in December 1996, formed the basis of his book, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of Islam, published by Westview Press in December 2000. His second book, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War, was published in September 2005 by Henry Holt.
Tuesday, March 7:
noon...radio taping for Stephen Hartnett's radio shows (WEFT,WRFU)
2-5pm...participation in Stephen Hartnett's Rhetoric of Social Justice graduate seminar
7-9pm..."Night Draws Near" reading, discussion, 1st Presbyterian Church, 602 W Green St, U
Wednesday, March 8:
am...probable working session with Dept of Journalism faculty and students
11-11:45am..appearance on WILL Focus 580 radio program
12-1:30pm...lunchtime "conversation" with members of Speech Communication, Global Studies, the Institute for Communications Research and the public, #149 National Soybean Research Lab
2:15-3:50pm...participation in current events/social justcie classes at University High School
7-9pm..."Legacy of the Prophet" short discussion (history of political Islam), Q&A period; Chem Annex 601 S. Mathews, U
Organized by AWARE
Funded by SORF & other co-sponsors: University YMCA, School for Designing a Society, St. Patrick's Social Action Committee, St. Jude's Catholic Worker's House, Interfaith Alliance, U-C Friend's Meeting, Channing-Murray Foundation, The Peace & Justice Initiative at First Mennonite Church, Vietnam Veteran's Against the War, Prairie Greens, Campus Greens, Progressive Resource Cooperative, Illinois Disciples Foundation, World Harvest Foods, Muslim Women's Outreach, UI Dept of Speech Communications, UI International Programs & Studies, Illinois Program for Research in Humanities, UI Dept of Journalism, Ui Institute on Communications Research, and UI Working Group on Globalization & Empire |
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