Hosted
by the School of Journalism, the Center for the Study of Global Change, the
Department of International Studies, Horizons of Knowledge Program and the
Asian Culture Center.
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013
Time: 7-8 pm
Venue: Asian Culture Center, (807 E. 10th Street)
Description: Fariba Nawa, an Afghan-American journalist, speaker and author,
spent seven years in Afghanistan and the region, five of those years
investigating the global heroin trade. She focuses on how Afghan women are
involved and impacted by the $65 billion business that supplies 90 percent of
the world's opiates. Nawa has reported from the Middle East, South and Central
Asia for a variety of news outlets including The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs,
Daily Beast, Sunday Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Christian Science
Monitor. She's the author of Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One
Woman's Journey through Afghanistan and Afghanistan, Inc. For info about Ms.
Nawa’s visit to IU, please contact Feray J. Baskin at fbaskin@umail.iu.edu. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Student group co-sponsors: Asian American Association, Chinese
Students and Scholars, and Malaysian Student Association.
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