The Arab Spring: One Year Later

Ellen Knickmeyer, William Wheeler and Marda Dunsky join to discuss the Arab Spring, one year later.

12 pm – Lunch:
Please RSVP to Kathy Anderson [email protected]

1 pm – Ellen Knickmeyer is the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Saudi correspondent. She is a former Associated Press bureau chief for West Africa and Washington Post bureau chief in Baghdad and Cairo. With Pulitzer Center support, she spent the last year reporting on youth movements in Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Libya and Saudi Arabia.

2:15 pm – William Wheeler most recently reported on the rebirth of Libya and the plight of its migrant workers. Other reporting supported by the Pulitzer Center includes his examination into the politics of water and climate change in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

3:30 pm– "How the Middle East, South Asia, and the Wider Islamic World are Represented in the American Media" with William Wheeler, Ellen Knickmeyer and Marda Dunsky. Dunsky has written on the Arab world as a journalist and as an academic. She is a former editor on the national/foreign desk of the Chicago Tribune and author of "Pens and Swords, How the American Mainstream Media Report on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."

University of Chicago
Ida Noyes – East Lounge
1212 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL

Free and open to the public.