Presentations by Robert Fisk & David Barsamian
"Robert Fisk & David Barsamian: Middle East Fantasies and Myths"
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno
Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191
Open and free to the public. Relaxed Parking in University Business Center Area
Film Screening: Robert Fisk will show clips he shot in the Middle East that he calls “Shooting Death.”
Film Screening
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno, McLane 121
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Discussant: Robert Fisk, bestselling author and journalist based in Beirut as Middle East correspondent for The Independent, he has lived in the Middle East for three decades, and holds more British and International journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. He was named British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year seven times. Fisk has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of the only two Western journalists in the city at the time), from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/
David Barsamian is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine and he lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. The Institute for Alternative Journalism has named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes" and he has received the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism in 2003.
http://www.alternativeradio.org/
Also sponsored by Fresno Center for Nonviolence.
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
