A lecture and open discussion with

Nora Boustany
IFI Writer-In-Residence
Award-winning former Washington Post correspondent and columnist

"Finding Our Niche in the Narratives of Nations: The Challenge for Arab Journalists"

Date: Monday 18 January 2010
Time: 5 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Auditorium B1, College Hall, AUB

The Nadim Makdisi Memorial Lecture is part of the Nadim Makdisi Memorial Fund, which is housed at the Issam Fares Institute, offering fellowships to AUB graduate students to undertake research related to journalism and public policy, the fields that defined Nadim Makdisi's professional life.

Short Bio:

Nora Boustany is the second Writer-in-Residence at IFI, following Anthony Shadid in 2007-2008. She is the recipient of the George Polk award (1987), Sigma Delta Chi award in foreign news correspondence (1989), and holds a lifetime achievement award in the category of foreign news reporting from the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism (1992). She is also a three-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize, for which she was a finalist in 1987 for her coverage of war-scarred Lebanon and the siege of the Palestinian camp of Bourj Al Barajneh. Boustany is currently based in Beirut conducting research at AUB's library for her book - a cultural memoir of the Boustany family meshed into her own narrative as a Lebanese-American who has had a distinguished 32-year career in U.S. media.