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NPC Board of Governors
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Dr. Philip Y.M. Yang
Government Information Minister to Discuss Taiwan as Asia-Pacific Peacemaker Time and date: 10 a.m. July 15 Place: Zenger Room, National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th floor Dr. Philip Y.M. Yang will discuss the role of Taiwan as Asia-Pacific peacemaker. Yang, who became minister of the Taiwan Government Information Office this year, serves as spokesman for Taiwan overseas and for the cabinet domestically.Yang will discuss Taiwan’s engagement with mainland China and its approach to international participation, as well as the achievements of Taipei’s policy of “flexible diplomacy,” which…
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Maziar Bahari, Iranian-born Newsweek Reporter
MAZIAR BAHAR, Iranian-born Newsweek reporter and author of THEN THEY CAME FOR ME: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, will discuss HIS 118 DAYS IN 2009 IN A SIX-BY-TWELVE FOOT PRISON CELL IN TEHRAN'S EVIN PRISON, WRONGLY ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE Then They Came for Me describes the days leading up to the fiercely contested election and the clashes between Iranian citizens and police. In the epilogue, Mr. Bahari also writes about the recent turmoil in the Middle East and the possibility of a democratic Iranian government. Contacts:National Press Club: PETER HICKMAN301/530-1210 (H…
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Natural Gas Drilling
Energy Challenges Surrounding Natural Gas Drilling Environmental Experts to Discuss Need, Impacts For Natural Gas Drilling at National Press Club The National Press Club Newsmakers Committee will host a panel to discuss the challenges, impacts and need for natural gas drilling at a Newsmaker forum in the club's Lisagor Room at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 24, in the National Press Building, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. Experts to discuss this issue will be anti-drilling activist Adrian Kuzminski and Resources for the Future (RFF) official Alan Krupnick. Kuzminski argues that the cumulative…
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Lorenzo Vidino, Author of Book on the Muslim Brotherhood
Author of Book on the Muslim Brotherhood Will Discuss “The Global Muslim Brotherhood: Myth or Reality?” Lorenzo Vidino, author of “The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West,” will discuss whether the possibility of a global Muslim Brotherhood organization is real or imagined. Vidino, an academic and security expert, specializes in Islam and political violence in Europe and North America. A visiting fellow at the RAND Corp. in Washington, D.C., he held fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the U.S.…
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NPC Scholarship Committee
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Debbie Smith
Operation Exceptional Child/Afghanistan Founder Will Talk About Helping Children With Disabilities and the U.S. War Effort Date and Time: April 11 at NoonPlace: Zenger Room, National Press Club (529 14th St. NW, 13th floor) Debbie Smith, founder of Operation Exceptional Child/Afghanistan, will discuss how her efforts to build a school to help disabled children in that country will also benefit the U.S. war effort.Smith launched Operation Exceptional Child/Afghanistan as the executive director of PATHS (Parents and Teachers Helping Students), a 501(c)(3) organization she created in 2004 that…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Joanna Breyer on what to do "When Your Child is Sick"
Author and psychosocial counselor Joanna Breyer used her decades of experience working with sick children and their families to create the comprehensive field guide we all hope we will never need: “When Your Child is Sick: A Guide to Navigating the Practical and Emotional Challenges of Caring for a Child Who is Very Ill.” Breyer will lead an intimate conversation on how parents can take back some control and cope with the impossible at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Tuesday, November 13. This event will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s Lisagor Room, and will feature a…
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National Press Club to host briefing on effort to #KeepEmilioFree
Eduardo Beckett, the lead attorney for Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, the National Press Club's 2017 Press Freedom award winner, will brief reporters on continuing legal threats to the Mexican reporter on Friday, October 12 at 9:30 a.m. in the Club's Zenger Room. Read Gutiérrez's account, "A reporter detained: On life inside ICE camps," here. Freed from eight months of detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a lengthy legal challenge by U.S. and international press organizations, Gutiérrez and his son, Oscar, are now living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the veteran reporter has…
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