The Asia Society Southern California will present a forum on the impact of media on a new Afghanistan Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Co-sponsored by Huffington Post, Paley Center for Media, and UCLA Asia Institute.
The forum and dialogue will take place at The Bel-Air Country Club 10768 Bellagio Road, Los Angeles 90077 in the Bel-Air room from 4:30pm to 6:00pm. A reception will follow the program.
The cost is $30 for members of the Asia Society SoCal, the Paley Center for Media and UCLA Asia Institute, and $40 for the public.
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The event will feature Tom Freston, Richard Engel and Saad Mohseni.
The Asia Society’s Trustee, Tom Freston, who lived in Kabul right up to the 1978 coup in Afghanistan will lead the discussion amongst award-winning journalist Richard Engel, NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent, and Afghanistan’s preeminent media company chairman, Saad Mohseni of MOBY Media. All participants will share their on-the-ground, personal exeperiences about the truth in war-torn Afghanistan.
Asia Society Southern California (ASSC) is one of ten world regional centers of Asia Society. Home to the largest Asian population in the United States, Los Angeles is a vibrant microcosm of Asian and American cultures. Founded in Los Angeles in 1985, ASSC strives to cultivate these ties through programs on topics ranging from art, society and culture, to business, policy and education.
