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Middle East and North Africa
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Views from the Frontline

Reception Featuring Congressman Adam Schiff

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
2103 Rayburn House Office Building
(At Independence Avenue SW and South Capitol Street)


Please join Freedom House and Congressman Adam Schiff at a reception honoring 11 digital activists from the Middle East and North Africa who are in Washington as part of Freedom House’s Study Tour on New Media Activism.  These digital activists are innovators in using internet technology to build grassroots movements and actively advocate for human rights and democratic reforms in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yemen.



Featured Guest: Esraa Abdelfattah Rashid, the young activist who helped to launch a nationwide strike in Egypt in April 2008 using Facebook and pioneering what the New York Times refers to as ‘Facebook activism’.

Freedom House is grateful to the United States Agency for International Development for supporting its New Generation of Advocates program.

Space is limited, so please RSVP to Ese Emerhi by Monday, March 8.
emerhi@freedomhouse.orgemerhi@freedomhouse.org>, 202.747.7034


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Ese Emerhi
Program Officer, Exchanges
Freedom House
1301 Connecticut Avenue N.W.
6th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20036
Direct: 202-747-7034
Fax: 202-293-2840
emerhi@freedomhouse.org
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