MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Rima Abdelkader
For immediate release rima.abdelkader@gmail.com
Marking Women’s History Month,
NAAP-NY to host
Forum on Status of Arab Women at Home and Abroad
at NY Society for Ethical Culture
NAAP-NY to host
Forum on Status of Arab Women at Home and Abroad
at NY Society for Ethical Culture
Forum to be hosted by Al-Jazeera Arabic’s DC Bureau Chief
What: Forum and Q & A on the Status of Arab Women at Home and Abroad
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2007
Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm
Where: New York Society for Ethical Culture - Main Auditorium
2 West 64th Street at Central Park West - New York, NY
NEW YORK CITY – Thursday, March 8, 2007 – On Thursday, March 15, 2007, the Network of Arab-American Professionals of New York (NAAP-NY) will host a forum to discuss the real versus perceived status of women in the Arab community. Women’s History Month was chosen as an appropriate time for the Arab-American community to probe sensitive topics such as political participation of women in the Arab world, domestic violence in the Arab-American community, the impact of war on women, and feminism in the Arab world.
An expert panel of academics, community activists and U.N. representatives will highlight different aspects of this issue by presenting statistics, case studies and analysis of the situation in the Arab world and the Arab-American community. Confirmed participants include: Abderrahim Foukara, Washington, DC Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera Arabic; Dr. Azza Karam, Senior Policy Research Advisor at the United Nations Development Program, in the Regional Bureau for Arab States. Dr. Karam coordinated the latest Arab Human Development Report on Arab women. Dr. Anny Bakalian, Associate Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, Graduate Center, City University of New York and Board President of TAMKEEN: The Center for Arab American Empowerment, in Brooklyn. Dr. Aseel Sawalha, Urban Anthropologist and Pace University professor; member, Department of Criminal Justice, Sociology and Anthropology (New York).
Audience members will be encouraged to participate in a question and answer session to follow.
This event is co-sponsored by the Adult Education Committee at the New York Society for Ethical Culture as well as the Network of Arab-American Professionals of New York.
The Network of Arab-American Professionals of New York (NAAP-NY) is the fastest growing Arab-American organization in New York City. NAAP-NY is a non-partisan, volunteer-based organization dedicated to strengthening the Arab-American community. For more information please visit www.naaponline.org/ny.
Please RSVP to Rima Abdelkader at rima.abdelkader@gmail.com.
