10/11/2011
TODAY AT 4 P.M.:
Lee Kamlet, left, dean of the School of Communications, will moderate the panel discussion, "Teach-in: Social Media and Revolution," at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11, in the Mancheski Executive Seminar Room of the Lender School of Business Center. This event, part of the Campus Cross Talk series, is open to all members of the campus community.
The panel will include Janet Bahgat, right, an adjunct professor who was in Cairo a week before the Tahrir Square revolution earlier this year; Alan Fisher, a correspondent from Al Jazeera; Dr. Hazem Hallak, a physician in Philadelphia, whose brother was tortured and killed by Syrian authorities. Since his brother's death, Dr. Hallak has been using social media from his home in Philadelphia, to condemn the Assad government and call for its overthrow; Alexander Marquardt, Jerusalem correspondent for ABC News, will participate via Skype. Marquardt, reported on the uprisings in Libya and Egypt and, from his listening post in Jerusalem, wrestled with the issues of verification of information collected via social media.