A Humanitarian Forum on Gaza

Medea Benjamin is co-founder of CODE PINK, and organization of mostly women known for their fearless determination to “speak truth to power” in Washington D.C. and throughout the country. Benjamin has made several forays to the Middle East, including a trip to Gaza in January. She will be just returning from a trip to Afghanistan.

Rami Khouri is the director of the Issam Fares Institute of the American University of Beirut and internationally syndicated political columnist. He is a frequent guest on Diane Rehm’s Friday roundtable discussion on NPR, and is editor-at-large of the Daily Star newspaper which publishes out of Beirut. Khouri has dual Palestinan-Jordanian and U.S. citizenship, and his family resides in Beirut, Amman and Nazareth.

“A Humanitarian Forum” will begin with a reception in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center on the SMU campus at 6:30 p.m., with the panel discussion in the Theater at 7:00 p.m. on October 16.