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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA CONTACT: Eric Solomon

January 9, 2003

(202) 994-3087

 

GW’s YITZHAK RABIN MEMORIAL PROFESSOR WALTER REICH TO HOST FORUM ON “THE TERRORISM OF HIZBOLLAH: IDEOLOGY, SCOPE AND THREAT”

JANUARY 16

 

Speakers to Include Public Policy Scholar Jeffrey Goldberg and
Wexler-Fromer Fellow Martin Kramer

EVENT:

“The Terrorism of Hizbollah: Ideology, Scope and Threat,” a forum hosted by The George Washington University and the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. GW’s Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor Walter Reich will moderate the event.

SPEAKERS:

Jeffrey Goldberg, public policy scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; staff writer, The New Yorker

Martin Kramer, Wexler-Fromer Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; editor, Middle East Quarterly; former fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center

WHEN:

Thursday, January 16, 2003

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

 

WHERE:

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza

1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

5th floor conference room

Washington, D.C. 20004

(Metro available at the Federal Triangle station)

 

 COST:            This event is free and open to the public with photo identification.

 

Background:

 

Walter Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Reich was the director of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1995 to 1998. He also is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University, professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and co-chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists. His scholarly work at the Woodrow Wilson Center currently is focused on the sources, development, representation, uses, misuses and future of Holocaust memory.

*** If you are interested in attending, please e-mail your RSVP to rowejm@wwics.si.edu. ***

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