Discussion: Cairo – Tel Aviv – Gaza – Vienna. The Courage to Speak: Women, Media and the Public Opinion, 30.01.08, Vienna

Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue
When: Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 19.00 hours
Where: Bruno Kreisky Forum, Armbrustergasse 15, 1190 Vienna
Panellists: Randa Abou Azm, Taghreed Al Khoudary, Gudrun Harrer, Anat Saragusti
Moderation: Viola Raheb

Randa Abou Azm:
Masters Degree in Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in Cairo, 1995 (thesis on Mamluk Pottery), BA: Economics Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 1983. Since 2003 Cairo Bureau Chief of Al Arabia News Channel. Worked and produced a number of documentaries, e.g. The Muslim Brotherhood, The 9/11 Impact, Does the Arab World Really Hate the US?, Chaotic Buildings in Cairo, The Suez Canal.

Taghreed Al Khoudary:
Palestinian Journalist from Gaza. She covered the second Intifada and Israel‘s disengagement plan from Gaza for The New York Times and for Al HayatLBCTV. Currently she covers Gaza for The New York Times and trains women at the Women Affairs Center in the field of communication skills and media. She obtained her BA in journalism and mass communication from the American University in Cairo, was a Fulbright scholar in the US where she obtained her MA in mass communication. After covering the Israeli implementation of the disengagement plan in the Gaza Strip, she spent a year at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow.

Gudrun Harrer:
Senior editor of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and lecturer of Modern Arab History at Vienna University and Diplomatic Academy Vienna. MA in Arabic and Islamic Studies and PhD in Political Science. Gudrun Harrer was Special Envoy of the Austrian Presidency of the European Union to Iraq in 2006 and wrote a book about the reasons of the Iraq war (KriegsGründe, Mandelbaumverlag, 2003).
Anat Saragusti: Director of film documentaries and television journalist at Channel 2 News. Her main focus is the Arab-Israeli conflict and the social situation in Israel. She was a correspondent in Gaza strip for two years and for 10 years worked as a journalist and news photographer for a weekly news magazine, where she mainly focused on the occupied Palestinian territories and the war in Lebanon in 1982. A law graduate, she is board member of human rights, feminist, and media monitoring organizations.
Viola Raheb: MA in Education and Theology from the Ruprecht-Karl-University in Heidelberg/Germany. Work experience: 1995-1998: Head of the Public Relations Department at the International Center of Bethlehem; 1995-1998 Deputy Schools’ Director of the Evangelical Lutheran Schools in Jordan and Palestine; 1998-2002: Schools’ Director of Evangelical Lutheran Schools in Jordan and Palestine. Viola Raheb currently works as a consultant on development aid and adult education in Vienna. She is a member of numerous organizations and committees promoting peace and dialogue and has published books and numerous articles.
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