MCID Speaker Series: WashPost.Com Reporter Amar Bakshi “How the World Sees America: Reflections On a Year Abroad."
Begins |
13 Mar 2008 - 6:00pm |
| Ends |
13 Mar 2008 - 8:00pm |
| Location |
66 West 12th Street. Room 609 (GPIA Conference Room) |
GPIA Media and Culture Speakers Series presents
WashingtonPost.Com Reporter
Amar Bakshi
"How the World Sees America": Reflections On a Year Abroad
(presented by the students of the MCID concentration)
Thursday, March 13th
6 - 8 p.m.
GPIA Conference Room
Room 609, 66 W 12th St.
Amar C. Bakshi is currently reporting for the online editions of The Washington Post and Newsweek, traveling around the world looking at how America impacts ordinary lives in a dozen countries. He posts text and video daily at www.washingtonpost.com/america. Before launching How the World Sees America, Amar worked with David Ignatius, Hal Straus, and Fareed Zakaria as the first editor of PostGlobal, an international affairs forum. Amar is also the founder of Aina Arts, a nonprofit organization connecting local artisans with schools in the developing world, and was the associate managing editor of the Oxford International Review. He graduated from Harvard in 2006, writing his thesis on media propaganda in Zimbabwe.