The Crown Center is delighted to welcome Mazier Bahari to Brandeis to show several of his films and speak about his work. Maziar Bahari is an award winning documentary filmmaker. His films include Football, Iranian Style, and Along Came a Spider, for which he received an Emmy nomination in 2005. He is also the Newsweek correspondent in Iran.

IranToday: Combating Drug Addiction and HIV/AIDS
A Film Screening and Discussion
5pm – 7pm
Monday November 6, 2006
Glynn Amphitheater, Schneider Building Room G4

Screening:Mohammad and the Matchmaker (2004) and Methadone in Iran (2006).

Panelists:
Maziar Bahari
Documentary Filmmaker and Newsweek Correspondent
Dr. Kamiar Alaei
Director, HIV/IDU/STI Counseling and Care Center
Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi
Postdoctoral Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
Chair: A. K. Nandakumar
Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Refreshments will be served.

Co-sponsored by the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and the Crown Center for Middle East Studies

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Targets: Reporters in Iraq

Film Screening and Q & A with director Maziar Bahari

Tuesday, November 7

5pm -7 pm

Pearlman Lounge

Targets: Reporters in Iraq looks at the dangers faced by journalists working in Iraq and asks whether and how the unique conditions under which journalists in Iraq operate affect our understanding of the war itself. This documentary features interviews with journalists Scott Taylor (who was kidnapped and tortured in Iraq), Hannah Allam (Knight Ridder), and Giuliana Sgrena.

For more information, please contact crowncenter@brandeis.edu or call 781-736-5320.