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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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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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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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NPC Board of Governors
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: The President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor
As part of his official trip to Washington, D.C., the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor will deliver an address at a National Press Club Headliners event, to be held in the Club’s Fourth Estate Room at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, September 28. President Borut Pahor was elected the fourth President of the Republic of Slovenia with 67.37 percent of the vote in December 2012. During his long political career, President Pahor has been elected member of the European Parliament, and has served as President of the National Assembly and Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. This news…
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NPC Board of Governors
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NPC Headliners Breakfast: MSNBC's Steve Kornacki & "The Birth of Political Tribalism"
It seems to be the most popular rhetorical question posed by political pundits, cable news contributors, your coworkers, your friends, and even your Uber driver: when did we become so divided as a nation? In “The Red and The Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism,” MSNBC host and NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki actually attempts to provide an answer and argues that, while the pressure had been building for decades, the final rupture that cracked our country in two can be traced back to one infamous date: November 7, 2000. On Friday, October 5 at 8:00 a.m…
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