[Mitai-announce] Human right in Egypt - TONIGHT

[Elan Pavlov]

This is just a reminder that this event will be held tonight from 1900 in 
room 4-370. Food will be served.

Elan
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carried out."
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:39:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elan Pavlov <elan at mit.edu>
To: mitai-announce at mit.edu
Subject: Human right in Egypt

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