WITNESS is pleased to co-present: 

Wadah Khanfar: "One Year After Mubarak: The Past and Future of the 'Arab Spring'"

When: February 24, 2012 | 6- 7:30pm

Location: MIT Media Lab, E14 6th Floor; 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

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Co-Hosts:

• - MIT Media Lab
• - Center for Civic Media
• - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
• - Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
• - Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
• - Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at Tufts University
• - WITNESS

Wadah Khanfar is president of the Sharq Forum, an international think tank focused on political and economic development in the Arab world, and former director general of the Al Jazeera network. Under Khanfar's leadership, Al Jazeera offered to the world a front-row seat to witness the fall of dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt, and the wave of rebellion that swept the Arab world. A year later, Khanfar reflects on the hopes raised by the Arab Spring, the changes that have—and haven't—taken place, and the challenges Egypt and other countries face on the road towards democracy.

In 2011, Khanfar was one of Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers, and headed  list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. He was also named one of the most "Powerful People in the World" by Forbes magazine in 2009.

For more information, visit MIT Media Lab's website. 

Khanfar's talk will be followed by a dialogue with Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab (and member of WITNESS' Board of Directors; Ethan Zuckerman, director of MIT's Center for Civic Media; and Mohamed Nanabhay, head of online at Al Jazeera English, as well as questions and answers with the audience.