TOMORROW: “Iran: What You Need to Know,” a teach-in at NYU
Iran: What You Need to Know
A Teach-In at NYU
Host: NYU Kevorkian Center & AMEJA & The Make Agency
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Cantor Film Center ; Street: 36 E. 8th Street
Email: IranTeachIn@hotmail.com
Description:
The recent events in Iran have left many of us with questions. Why
are there demonstrations and violence in the streets of Iran?
How are the events there relevant to us here? What is our role here in
the US and how can we support the people of Iran in this time of
turmoil?
A EVENING TEACH-IN IS TAKING PLACE for journalists, students,
academics, and any one interested in gaining a better understanding of
the incredible images and stories emerging from Iran over the past
week. We will have eyewitness accounts from people who have just
returned from Iran and reports from journalists who have been covering
Iran for the past few years.
When: 6:30 PM, Tuesday, June 23
Where: Cantor Center : 36 E. 8th street
SPEAKERS
Arang Keshavarzian is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle
Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He has just
returned from Iran, where he spent the last three weeks following the
election campaign and its immediate aftermath and he will give an
eyewitness account of the events there.
Golnoush Niknejad is the editor and founder of Tehran Bureau
(www.tehranbureau.com), an online magazine launched this year. Tehran
Bureau carried out extensive coverage of the recent Presidential
elections and now continues to overcome the Iranian government filters
and has become one of the main news sources from within Iran
Kouross Esmaeli is an Iranian-American independent journalist and
filmmaker working with Big Noise Film collective. He has been
reporting from Iran for the past four years for Aljazeera English,
Press TV and Current TV. He is also a member of Arab and Middle
Eastern Journalists Association.
Sponsored by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at
New York University
&
the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association
&
The Make Agency
