[Mitai-announce] Human right in Egypt

[Elan Pavlov]

Next week we will have our first event of the semester! We will have a 
talk on human rights in Egypt:
Nasser Weddady AIC's Civil Rights Outreach Director, originally an 
anti-slavery activist from Mauritania, have steered high-profile advocacy 
campaigns on behalf of bloggers and dissidents in the Middle East and 
North Africa.

Weddady has testified to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and 
lectured at numerous institutions such as the United States Institute for 
Peace, Harvard's Berkman's Center and has published in the Wall Street 
Journal, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune.

He also conducted training seminars within the framework of AIC's Civil 
Rights initiative (HAMSA) reaching over 100 young activists from over 16 
Arab countries.

Weddady will specifically talk about the challenges to basic civil and 
human rights in Egypt along the following themes:

- Civil Rights institutional and social challenges
- Freedom of speech
- Women's Rights
- Egyptian Bloggers and cyber activism
-Religious Freedom

Dinner will be provided.

Elan
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Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world.
 	- Peggy Noonan