LISTEN HARD, BECAUSE EVERY HUMAN STORY MATTERS: Why The Anthony Shadid Legacy Resonates More Than Ever

Event time: 
Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 101 (Auditorium) See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Philip Bennett, Philip Bennett is the special projects editor at the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE. He was the Washington Post Foreign and Managing editor during the Iraq war, when he worked closely with Anthony.
Thanassis Cambanis, Thanassis Cambanis is an author, journalist, and director of Century International. He reported for the Boston Globe from Baghdad and was a colleague and close friend of Anthony’s.
Rhonda Roumani, Rhonda Roumani is a Syrian-American journalist and a CMES affiliate at Yale University who has written about Islam, the Arab world and Muslim-American issues for more than two decades. She worked with and for Anthony in Beirut.
Ken Harper, Ken Harper, award-winning designer, photojournalist, and media educator, is associate professor and director of the Center for Global Engagement at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Rami George Khouri, Rami George Khouri is a syndicated columnist and book author, and Journalist-in-Residence and director of global engagement at the American University of Beirut. He interacted with Anthony during the latter’s entire Mideast reporting years.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Rajiv Chandrasekaran was a Washington Post senior correspondent and assistant managing editor who worked closely with Anthony from Baghdad, Cairo, and Washington. He is in Seattle with Emes Project, a political and policy reformentrepreneurial group.
Anne Barnard, Anne Barnard covers climate and environment for the Metro desk of the New York Times. She was Beirut bureau chief from 2012 to 2018. She and her family were close friends and colleagues with Anthony in Baghdad and Beirut.
Leila Fadel, Leila Fadel hosts NPR’s Morning Edition and its morning news podcast Up First. In college, she was inspired by Anthony’s reporting from Palestine to become a journalist, and she later reported from Baghdad when he was there.

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