The Open Hands Initiative is proud to announce our participation in an upcoming forum at Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership. This forum will discuss Egypt’s ongoing revolution, with a focus on Global Post and Open Hands Initiative’s exchange project that brought 7 American and 8 Egyptian top, young, journalists together for the “Covering a Revolution” Reporting Fellowship held in Cairo in October of 2011.
During the fellowship, the journalists participated in a three-day seminar led by Egyptian and American expert panelists, and later conducted five days of field reporting. Five “beats,” meant to build awareness and understanding of the Egyptian Revolution, were covered by the Reporting Fellows: Arts and Culture, Economy and Tourism, Human Rights and Justice, Politics and Governance, and Religion and Minorities.
Since the conclusion of the program, the reporting fellows work has been showcased by a 25-part Special Report on Global Post. The collaborative series has been viewed by more than 2 million visitors from across the globe.
For more information on the Reporting Fellowship please see the Open Hands Initiative page on Media and Democracy in Transition
The Tufts’ Forum panel will include three of the reporting fellows ; Global Post’s Executive Editor, Charles Sennot; the founder of Open Hands Initiative, Jay T. Snyder; and photojournalist Gary Knight.
The forum, “Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution: From Tahrir Square to the Ballot Box,” will be held on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 4:30 pm and is open to the public.
