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Tales From CNN's Ben Wedeman: "The Great Arab Revolt"

03/09/2012

Ben Wedeman
Ben Wedeman, CNN's senior international correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt, will present "The Great Arab Revolt: Tales from the Trenches" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, in 102 Benton Hall. A question and answer session will follow his talk.

For the past year Wedeman has been following the so-called “Arab-spring,” during which human rights and political activists frequently clashed with government forces in their quest for democracy.
Wedeman led CNN’s coverage of the uprising against Egyptian President Mubarak and the unrest in the Middle East. He was the first western journalist to enter eastern Libya after the start of the revolution.

Since 1995, he's reported for the network from scenes of conflict and tension across the Middle East and northern Africa including Israel, Pakistan, Lebanon, the Balkans and Iraq.

His lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by; the international studies program’s Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture Series and the Middle East and Islamic studies program.

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