Award-Winning Gazan Journalist Mohammed Omer
On First U.S. Speaking Tour
WASHINGTON, DC, November 21, 2006—Washington Report on Middle East AffairsGaza correspondent Mohammed Omer will be embarking on his
first U.S. speaking tour on Nov. 26. In the 15-city tour, sponsored
by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,
Omer will provide eyewitness accounts of the deteriorating
situation in the Gaza Strip to the magazine’s readers
and the general public. As a photographer
for Agence France-Presse (AFP), writer
(for the Vermont Guardian, ArtVoice Weekly,
Swedish dailies Dagen Nyheter and Aftonbladet,
Norwegian dailies Dagbladet and Morgenbladet,
the German daily junge Welt, the Basque daily
Berria, and the Swedish magazine Arbetaren),
radio/television correspondent (Free
Speech Radio News, BBC and BBC Scotland radio, BBC News
24 TV, Norwegian national NRK TV), and widely read blo!
gger (RafahToday.org), Omer will use
his many talents to describe life as a Palestinian journalist
under occupation. The youngest member of the Gazan press
corps, Omer was recently named winner of the New
America Media’s “Best Youth Voice” Award. He has experienced more pain, death, fear, destruction,
hatred and despair in his 22 years than most people will
experience in a lifetime. “Words are my weapon against
injustice, hate, starvation and oppression,” he
explains. With his bulletproof vest and Cannon D20 in
hand, Mohammed is on the front lines.
WHAT: Gazan journalist Mohammed Omer’s 2006 U.S. Tour
WHO: Mohammed Omer, Gaza correspondent, Washington Report on Middle East
Affairs
