The following portion of the transcript of remarks by the Chairman and Founder Jay Snyder were originally published on GlobalPost.
CAIRO — Thank you, Charlie. On behalf of the Open Hands Initiative I’d like to welcome and thank you for joining us this evening. I am deeply humbled to be here in Cairo with such a distinguished group of journalists, academics, activists and representatives of the governments from the United States and Egypt.
I’d like to welcome Lyse Doucet of the BBC and Ambassador Patterson; I am especially grateful for your presence here tonight.
I’d like to thank GlobalPost for sharing our passion for creating genuine dialogue between people of different cultures. The GlobalPost team has been essential to making our work here in Egypt possible.
Under the leadership of Charlie Sennott and Gary Knight, we have created a unique fellowship of young American and Egyptian journalists.
I have high hopes that this cooperation will be the beginning of enduring friendships….
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