Award winning Gaza journalist on tour in US to speak about life

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From the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs:

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MOHAMMED OMER
“The Voice of the Voiceless”
Award-Winning Journalist from the Gaza Strip
Mohammed Omer, 25, was born and raised in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. A correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, he has had articles and photographs featured in publications around the world.
In 2008, he became the youngest journalist ever to be awarded the Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalism. He was honored as “the voice of the voiceless” whose reporting constituted a “humane record of the injustice imposed on a community forgotten by much of the world.” As he was traveling back to the Gaza Strip from the award ceremony in London, he was beaten and humiliated by Israeli soldiers at the Allenby Bridge border crossing. His treatment precipitated an international outcry. Click here for Omer's resume.
Omer will speak about daily life under the crippling siege of Gaza. He’ll describe his interviews with fishermen, farmers, students, journalists, mothers and fathers trying to survive.  As another winter approaches, Omer will discuss how Gazans are coping without electricity, water, fuel, sewage treatment, and adequate health care or building materials.
Schedule
Nov. 5 Thursday 12:30-2:00 pm at Palestine Center, 2425 Virginia Ave NW Washington, DC. For more information see: <www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/EventDetails/i/7278/pid/373>
Nov. 6 Friday 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Emerson Hall 305 Harvard University (Harvard Yard), Cambridge, MA. For more information see  <www.gazafreedommarch.org>  or e-mail < gazafreedommarch@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Nov. 7 Saturday Palestine Cultural Center 41 Quint Ave. Boston, MA to be confirmed. For more information see: <http://palestineculturalcenterforpeace.org>
Nov. 8 Sunday Pot Luck Brunch (Dunster Dorm) with Harvard students
4-6 pm, Watertown peace group Sunday, November 8, 2009, 4:00 pm
St. John’s United Methodist Church, 80 Mt. Auburn St. Watertown
For more information see: <www.justicewithpeace.org/node/701>
Nov. 9 Monday Emerson College to be confirmed
Northeastern University School of Law, 4-5:30 p.m., Dockser 240
Nov 10, 11 Washington, DC interviews (Al-Jazeera English TV to be confirmed)
Nov. 12 Columbia University, 6:30 pm (location to be confirmed)
“Democracy Now!” interview to be confirmed
Nov. 13 Friday
12:30 - 2:00 Rutgers University undergraduate class on Palestine/Isr