Thursday, May 9, 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM EDT - Zoom + Livestream + in person at the National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Holeman Lounge, Washington, DC - (Breakfast and registration begin at 9:00 am)
Covering Palestine: A Shireen Abu Akleh Memorial Symposium
Two years after the Israeli military’s killing of acclaimed Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank and as an unprecedented number of Palestinian journalists have been killed by the Israeli military during its Gaza campaign, this symposium will focus on the challenges of covering Palestine. The panels will focus on both the journalists at risk on the ground as well as on assessments of Western media coverage of Palestine, and particularly the war on Gaza.
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Register: Attend via Zoom
The conference will also be available via livestream on the website
Agenda
10:15 AM – Opening Message - The Honorable Chris Van Hollen, U.S. Senator from Maryland
10:30 – Panel I - Coverage of the War on Gaza: What the Media Gets Right and Wrong, with Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for The Huffington Post / Laila Al-Arian, Executive Producer of "Fault Lines" on Al Jazeera / Mona Chalabi, British data journalist, illustrator, and writer; Data Editor at The Guardian US
Will Youmans – Moderator, Associate Professor, George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs
12:00 PM – Lunch Keynote Conversation - Ayman Mohyeldin, Host of the "Ayman" show on MSNBC
Yousef Munayyer – Moderator, Head of the Palestine/Israel Program, Arab Center Washington DC
1:00 PM – Panel II - Journalism Under Fire: Risking it All to Tell the Story, with Lina Abu Akleh, Palestinian Armenian human rights advocate; Shireen Abu Akleh's niece / Karen Attiah, Columnist for the Washington Post / Sherif Mansour, Egyptian American democracy and human rights advocate / Eman Mohamed, Photojournalist from Gaza
Rhana Natour – Moderator, Award-winning journalist and host