Foreign Affairs Adviser to Speak at UMass Lowell Day Without Violence
04/13/2015
Contacts for media: Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944 or Nancy_Cicco@uml.edu or Christine Gillette, 978-934-2209 or Christine_Gillette@uml.edu
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Tuesday, April 14
12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
WHAT: Shibley Telhami, who advised Congress during the Iraq War, will discuss how shifting public opinions about the Middle East are redefining foreign policy during UMass Lowell’s annual Day Without Violence, a free event for the campus and community.
Now in its 20th year, the Day Without Violence is observed annually on college and university campuses nationwide in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work advancing social justice. Previous Day Without Violence speakers at UMass Lowell have included South African anti-apartheid leader Albie Sachs, former Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis III and human-rights activist John Prendergast.
Telhami’s work focuses on how the news media helps form public opinion and political identity in the Middle East. During his presentation “America in Arab Eyes and Arabs in American Eyes,” he will share findings from U.S. and Arab public opinion polls, demonstrating how beliefs affect international policy.
Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at University of Maryland, College Park and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is a member of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, which engages and informs policymakers and the public about developments in Muslim countries and their relationship to the United States.
He was a consultant to congressional members of the 2006 Iraq Study Group charged with recommending U.S. policy and was an adviser to the United States Mission to the United Nations, former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton and former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell when he served as United States special envoy for Middle East peace.
WHERE: O’Leary Library Learning Commons, Room 222, South Campus, 61 Wilder St., Lowell. Contact UMass Lowell for directions and parking information.