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Aghanistan: A Human Rights Focus | |
Date | Wednesday December 10 |
Time | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM |
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Location Details | |
San Francisco Main Library Koret Auditorium Grove St. Entrance |
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Event Type | Panel Discussion |
Organizer/Author | Sandra Schwartz |
sschwartz [at] afsc.org | |
Phone | 415-565-0201 ext. 24 |
Address | 65 9th St. |
Now that a new Administration is coming on board promising more attention towards the war in Afghanistan, what should be the basis of the U.S. - Afghanistan relations? On UN Human Rights Day, join
Rona Popal of the Fremont-based Afghan Coalition, one of the large diaspora in California; Tamim Ansary - author of West of Kabul, East of New York writes and lecture about Afghanistan, Islamic history, democracy, schooling, etc; William T. Vollmann - prolific author and journalist; books include: Rising Up and Rising Down some thoughts on violence, freedom and urgent means and An Afghanistan Picture Show with details of his time traveling with the mujahideen; and Dr Zaher Wahab - Professor of Education at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR; serves as a senior advisor to the Minister of Higher Education in Afghanistan
For more event information:
Added to the calendar on Wednesday Nov 19th, 2008 4:11 PM
http://www.afsc.org/sanfrancisco/ |
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