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Invited Speaker/Guest Profile
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy, born in Shillong, India, is the author of “The God of Small Things”, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and has since then been translated into several languages.
Her prominent non-fiction works include the books, “The Cost of Living” and “Power Politics” (also published together under the title “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”). Her latest work is the non-fiction book “War Talk”, released in April 2003.
Roy is one of the most sought after speakers on the international circuit, and is a truly original voice on human rights and social issues, not just in India but across the globe.
Links and Resources
Instant Mix, Imperial democracy, buy one get one free
The algebra of infinite justice
Confronting Empire
'I do what I do because I have to'
http://www.arundhatiroy.org.uk/
http://aroy.miena.com/
Romila Thapar
An internationally renowned authority on Indian history. Professor Emeritus at Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, and earlier visiting professor at Cornell University and University of Pennsylvania. She has held many positions in Europe, United States, and other part of the world, including Honorary Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her publications on Indian history are considered seminal works and have formed the basis for several Indian textbooks.
Professor Thapar has recently been named as first holder of the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at Library of Congress.
Links and Resources:
http://www.altindia.net/documentation/rtthpar.htm
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-068.html
Rep. Mike Honda
Honorable congressman Mike Honda representing the 15th District of California. Mike has been a public servant for decades during which he has been lauded for his work on education, transportation, civil rights, the environment, and the high-tech community.
Links and Resources:
http://www.house.gov/honda/
http://www.mikehonda.org/
Biju Mathews
Professor, Rider University. Member of the 'Stop funding hate' campaign.
Links and other resources:
http://www.stopfundinghate.org
http://www.reachouthyderabad.com/newsmaker/nm3.htm
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Maulana Mohammed Naseem, Dr. Muzzammil Siddiqui, Leaders and representatives of Hindu, Muslim, Dalit, Sikh and Christian communities.
Confirmed Speaker/Guest Profile
Fr. Cedric Prakash
Fr.Cedric Prakash, a Jesuit Priest, has committed himself to the service of faith and promotion of human rights, communal harmony, justice and peace, for the last 30 years.
Presently, Fr.Prakash is Director of “Prashant” - a centre for human rights, justice and peace, and is also the Coordinator of the Province Office for Integral Social Development (POISD) - an organization dedicated to coordinate developmental, justice and peace works of the Society of Jesus in Gujarat, India.
Fr. Prakash was Director of St. Xavier’s Social Service Society, (SXSSS) - an organization involved in social work in the slums of Ahmedabad and in the rural areas of Gujarat State through a focus on education, health, organization and environment for over fourteen years. He also founded SHANTI - an initiative to promote communal harmony, justice and peace.
Born in November, 1951, Fr. Prakash studied Economics, Philosophy and Theology, and has been consistently engaged in development activities and social work. He has served on several committees / commissions, held Directorships / memberships, and continues to be involved with various local and national associations and groups.
He is currently also the Director of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Baroda Diocese and the Secretary for Social Communications for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) for 14 Dioceses of the Western Region of India. He is a liaison for the Local Capacities for Peace Project out of Harvard University and is also the Spokesperson of the United Christian Forum for Human Rights.
Praful Bidwai
TNI Fellow and former senior editor of The Times of India, Praful Bidwai is one of the most widely read journalists in India. He is a regular columnist for several leading newspapers and journals in India.
He is a fellow of the prestigious Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Museum and Library and an associate editor of Security Dialogue, published by PRIO, Oslo. He is also a member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation (INESAP) and co-founder of the Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND) and South Asians Against Nukes. His latest book, co-written by Achin Vanaik, is New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament (Interlink 1999).
Links and other resources:
Click here for complete bio.
http://www.tni.org/fellows/bidwai.htm
http://www.rediff.com/news/bidwai.htm
Dr. Lise McKean
Dr. Lise McKean is a scholar, researcher, and activist. Her research on Hindutva began in 1988 when she was conducting doctoral research in Haridwar and Delhi. Her book, Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement was published by the University of Chicago Press and is one of the first studies to document the grassroots operation of the Hindu Nationalist Movement. Her research pays particular attention to the role of Hindu religious leaders and the Vishnu Hindu Parishad in popularizing the ideology of Hindutva among diverse sections of the population.
Dr. McKean has presented the findings of her research in many scholarly and public policy forums. In the aftermath of the destruction of the Babri Masjid by Hindu militants in 1992, she went to Washington, D.C. to participate in a conference sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Last summer she spoke at the Symposium on South Asia held at the U.S. House of Representatives. The Symposium was an opportunity for religious and military leaders as well as scholars and activists from India, Pakistan, and the U.S. to inform U.S. legislators and policy makers about the riots in Gujarat and the criminal activities of the Sangh Parivar and its supporters in the Indian government.
Dr. McKean received her B.A. from the University of Chicago, M.A. from the University of Hawaii, and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Sydney. She is currently Deputy Director of the Center for Impact Research, an independent community-based research organization working on issues of social and economic justice.
Smita Narula
Senior researcher for the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch and author of a number of prominent HRW publications, including “Caste Discrimination: A Global Concern” and “We Have No Orders to Save You: State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat.”
She has also been a distinguished speaker at various forums on human rights issues. Her first hand knowledge of the Gujarat violence in 2002 makes her one of the most sought after voices on the issue.
In August 2003, Smita will join the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School as its Executive Director and human rights clinical instructor.
Links and Resources:
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/india/
Dr. K.P. Singh
Ph.D. University of Washington, USA. Chairperson, International Dalit Conference Organizing Committee. Convener International Association for the Advancement of Dalit people. Dr. Singh is a professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies. He teaches courses such as Race, Caste And Ethnicity, Modern Indian Social Thoughts: Post-Colonial Literature, Dalit Literature, South Asian Diaspora, and several other courses on Indian Language and Literature. He has organized many panels on Dalit issues at International and National Conferences. Dr. Singh has been honored with many other awards for his outstanding and dedicated services to the Dalit community. His strongest passion is to empower Indian Dalits economically, politically and socially. Besides teaching, Dr. Singh devotes his resources to advocacy for Dalits and accounts of his activities have been reported by many national newspapers and radio stations.
Links and other resources:
Racism commentaries on NPR (Listen)
Extremism threatens South Asia
http://www.dalitconference.org
Dr. Angana Chatterji
Professor, Social and Cultural Anthropology. California Institute of Integral Studies. Angana P. Chatterji has integrated scholarship, research, and activism in linking the roles of citizen and intellectual. She has been working with advocacy and research within postcolonial social movements in India and internationally since 1984, toward enabling participatory democracy for social and ecological justice. Her work focuses on issues of globalization, identity politics, sustainable development, cultural survival, religious fundamentalism and nationalism.
Professor Chatterji has been working in Orissa with issues of land rights and policy reform. In response to September 11, 2001, she has convened the Dialogues for Peace at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Chatterji is on the Board of Directors of Earth Island Institute and International Rivers Network, Director of Research, Asia Forest Network, and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Peace and Democracy in South Asia. She has a B.A. and M.A. in Politics, a Ph.D. in the Humanities, and has published extensively.
Links and other resources:
http://stopfundinghate.org/resources/news/
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles5/Chatterji_Narmada
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Chatterji_Gujurat.htm
http://electroniciraq.net/news/90.shtml
http://www.earthisland.org/news/new_news.cfm?newsID=332
http://csf.colorado.edu/envtecsoc/2002/msg00365.html
http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2003/1903.html
http://webactive.com/pacifica/peacewatch/
http://www.spaef.com/IJED_PUB/3_2/3_2_chatterji.html
http://www.ciis.edu/faculty/chatterji.html
http://elxr.com/dfp
Nishrin Hussain
Nishrin Hussain is the daughter of former Member of Parliament, Ahsan Jafri. Her father's secular values and involvement with social issues had a profound influence on her formative years. Following her marriage to Dr. Najid Hussain, she lived in England for four years before relocating to the US.
In the aftermath of Gujarat massacre and brutal killing of her father, she has worked with several relief and advocacy groups including AIM, IMRC, IMC and EKTA increasing awareness on the Gujarat violence and raising funds for providing relief and rehabilitation to the victims. She was one of the NRI-SAHI delegates who went on a Sadbhavna mission and visited several dignitaries and political leaders in India urging them to stop communal polarization and take steps to address the issue of justice to the victims of Gujarat violence.
Hussain currently works as Controller for a printing company. She has been spreading the message of communal harmony in the US and has also described her feelings about the tragic and brutal death of her father in a recent article in several papers, "Coping with Pain".
Links and other resources:
http://www.sabrang.com/cc/archive/2002/sep02/
http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/ornet/2002
http://www.onlinevolunteers.org/gujarat/reports/uscirf/
http://www.mnet.fr/aiindex/NishrinHussainTestimony
Dr. Satchit Balsari
M.B.,B.S., M.P.H. Satchit Balsari is a Research Associate in the Program on Humanitarian Crises and Human Rights based at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the Founding Director of Professionals for Human Security, a non-profit coalition of young professionals in India, who use their respective skills to formulate and implement sustainable solutions to socio-developmental issues influencing human security. He has been the Charter President of the Rotaract Club of the Caduceus, a five-year old organization of medical students, interns and young physicians form over 11 institutions in Bombay, committed to community health service.
He is a physician and humanitarian worker by training, and holds academic degrees from Bombay University and the Harvard University School of Public Health. His field experience in community medicine is based in rural India, and in the slums of Bombay. He has served the communities of Kutchch, India affected by the earthquake in 2001, and those affected by the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002. Dr. Balsari has conducted independent investigations on child protection issues in the areas of child labor, and children in humanitarian crises. He has recently been writing and speaking across university campuses, about the need for religious pluralism in India.
Links and other resources:
To bhaijaan with shame
Ananta Krishna
Anantakrishna Maringanti is a graduate student in Geography at the University of Minnesota. He returned to academics after over 15 years of work as a journalist and human rights activist in different parts of India. After graduating in engieering from Osmania University in Hyderabad, he tried his hand at
a variety of careers including industrial design, documentary film making and environmental research. Between 1992 and 1997, he worked as a journalist in Visakhapatnam, Jaipur and Hyderabad. He quit daily journalism when he was special correspondent for the indian Express in Hyderabad to escape real politik, and devote more time to the committee of concerned citizens a group of civil servants, journalists, academics and advocates whose mission was to mitigate the escalating political violence in rural Telangana.
Continuing with freelance writing during this time, he was also involved in housing rights campaigns in the Old city of Hyderabad. All in all, his career is one of episodic anti careerism. It is from these experiences that his academic interests emerge. He studies international labor migration, transnational politics and transformation of Old Cities in India. He is associated with the Stop Funding Hate campaign.
He will speak on "Gujarat: The blindspots of Indian secularism".
Links and other resources:
http://www.stopfundinghate.org
Imam Khalid
Griggs Khalid Griggs was the former chairman of the Television Access Corporation of Winston-Salem. A Political Science and English graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., Griggs has been active in the Muslim and African-American communities. He was part of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the late 1960s. Griggs co-founded the Institute for Islamic Involvement in the early 1980s and edited its journal, Vision, for six years. More recently, he served as editor of The Message magazine. Currently Khalid Griggs is the imam of the Community Mosque as well as a public school teacher in Winstom-Salem, North Carolina.
Manzoor Ghori
Founder and Chairman, Indian Muslim Relief Committee. Providing educational, Human & Health Care services. Assistance to children and destitute women, has supported more than 75,000 children in past 21 years. Also provides medical and emergency aid to 100's of thousands of needy persons in emergencies like Droughts, floods, riots etc., now working in Gujarat to rebuild the community.
Member of International Action Center delegation to Iraq Sanction Challenge Team. Visited Iraq in 1998 with Ramsey Clark, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, and Representatives from 90 different countries.
One of the founding members of Muslim Community Association of Santa Clara, CA. One of the founders and past President of Ameen Housing Co-operative Inc. Provides interest free homes for low and medium income families in S.F.Bay area.
Links and other resources:
http://www.imrc.ws
Education/Profession
M.S in Management & Supervision, Health Care Administration & Finance, Central Michigan University, May 1980
B.S in Medical Technology, Eastern Illinois University, 1971
B.Sc in Chemistry and Zoology, Osmania University, India, 1976
Senior Clinical Scientist, Kaiser Permanent Medical Center, Redwood City, CA, (1974 - Till Date), in Clinical Laboratory.
Asim Ghafoor
Asim Ghafoor is the founder and Managing Director of AG Consulting Group. Prior to starting the firm he served in various capacities in federal, state and local government for over ten years, most recently with Congressman Ciro D. Rodriguez (D-TX). In this position, he advised the Congressman on a variety of issues, including international affairs, banking, civil rights, transportation, armed services and veterans' affairs. Before relocating to Washington, Asim served in various capacities as Acting Chief of Staff to legislative assistant in the Texas House of Representatives. Additionally, Heads of state, ambassadors, members of Congress, community leaders, and Administration staff often call upon Asim for advice and counsel on South Asian policy issues.
Links and other resources:
http://www.agcgweb.com/wAG/aboutus.asp
Raju Rajagopal
Mr. Raju Rajagopal is an erstwhile San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneur, whose professional career in the Unites States has spanned over three decades. He retired in 1998 as the Chief Operating Officer of MECON, Inc., a public healthcare consulting company, after it was acquired by GE Medical Systems. Since then, Mr. Rajagopal has devoted all of his time to grassroots development projects and communal (religious) harmony issues, primarily in the Indian subcontinent.
Mr. Rajagopal graduated with an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India in 1968 and obtained his Masters degree at Wayne State University, Detroit in 1970. Subsequently, he worked for a number of multinational firms, including Bechtel Corporation, which took him on assignment to various parts of the world, including Saudi Arabia, and provided him with the opportunity to observe and value different cultures and lifestyles.
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Dr. Shaik Ubaid
Founding President of Indian Muslim Council-USA, Dr. Ubaid is Assistant Professor of Neurology at Wiell Medical College of Cornell University and is Director of Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring at the New York Presbyterian Hospital of Cornell University.
He was born in Hyderabad, India and moved to the US in 1986 after completing his medical school at the prestigious Osmania Medical College in Hyderabad. He has served in leadership positions with many local and national Muslim organizations along with handling media relations and mass mobilization work for them.
Dr. Ubaid has always had a passion for human rights and civil rights issues. He is very well informed on Indian and Muslim history and occasionally writes political commentary.
FORMER organizations:
Founder IMANNET (http://www.imannet.com)
Associate Editor The Message (monthly newsmagazine)
National spokesperson for Islamic Medical Asociation of North America
Board member and Spokesperson Islamic Centre of South Shore, Valley Stream, NY
Board member and Director Outreach (Dawa) Islamic Society of Milwaukee, WI
Secretary General, Islamic Circle of North America
National Media Secretary, Islamic Circle of North America
Founding member Dawanet.
Links and other resources:
http://www.imannet.com/press
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ubaid1.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/
http://iviews.com/articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0306-2001&p=1
Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi
President, Islam and Media Working Group, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). President, Islamic Center of Macomb. Treasurer, World Council of Muslims for Interfaith Relations (WMCIR)
Member, ISNA, IMRC, AFMI, AMSS.
Member, ICNA National Shura, 95-98;
Education:
M.Sc. Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh India
M. A. Mass Communication, University of Illinois, Chicago
Ph. D. International Communication, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Current profession:
Professor of Journalism and Public Relations, western Illinois University, Macomb, Il. Has been teaching here since 1987.
Publications
Islam, Muslims and Media: Myths and Realities (1997)
Islam: A Contemporary Perspective (1994)
More than 20 acamedic papers in refereed journals
Numerous articles in The Minaret, The Message, Muslim Observer etc.
Member Editorial Advisoy Board:
(1) Journal of International Communication
(2) The Minaret
(3) Muslim Observer
Dr. Rahul Deepanker Read complete bio here
Date of Birth: January 1, 1953
Place of Birth: Village Unchagaon
District – Buland Shahr, U.P., India
Citizenship: India
Education: Master, Liberal Arts , University of Chicago, U.S.A. 2002
Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine (M.D.) U.S.A. 1984
L.L.R.M. Medical College, MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery)
Meerut University, U.P. India 1975
Professional Work
Experience: Currently practicing as Internal Medicine
Consultant at both Provena St. Mary’s and Riverside Hospitals in Kankakee, Il., U.S.A (Chicago Surburb) since 1984
Professional Leadership: Chief of Staff Provena St. Mary’s Hospital
Experience: Kankakee, Il. U.S.A. 1994-1995
Chairman, Internal Medicine Department, St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Il., U.S.A. 1989-1990 & 1999-2000
Indian Administrative Services: Successfully competed for I.A.S., however, renounced in favor of further education in medicine in U.S.A. 1979-1980 & Social Work
Activism: Thirty Five years experience as Social Activist for the cause of down trodden worldwide. For last 22 years while in America, the work of social activism with main emphasis on world peace through interfaith dialogue, social justice and human rights.
Positions held
President, Internal Medicine Group, S.C.
President, New Republic An association of social activists from all segments India, International of N.R.I. community, with a focus on justice, peace and harmony in India. .
President, Indian Buddhist Association of America
Member, Board of Trustees, Parliament of the World’s Religions
Vice President, Association of Indians in America (Il. Chapter.) 1996 - 2000
Awards Received
Honor of Distinction, Aug., 2002 by Consul General of India, Chicago, Il. U.S.A.
Commendation for, by Counsel for Parliament of World’s Religions, Commitment to Inter Religious Harmony
Religious Harmony, 2000
Community Activist Award, 2000 Award by A.I.A.
Humanitarian of the Year Award 1999 By Indian Catholic Association of America.
Dr. D.R. Ambedkar Award, 2001 By Guru Ravidas Sabha of New York & Trust
Founder, “Deepankar Kanya Inter Established this exclusively girls Inter College on College Uncha Gaon,” Dist. Buland family land with personal resources. No help sought
Shahr, 1997 from government resources and high quality education being given to about 400 girls from 6th to 10th grades, soon to start the intermediate classes. (A matter of great personal pride and gratification to see the success in real work for empowerment of rural women.)
Prof. Hari Sharma
Professor Emeritus, Master's degree from the University of Delhi, Ph.D. from Cornell Univ.
Taught at Delhi University. Then at Univ. of California, Los Angeles (department of Sociology) from 1966-1968. Moved to Canada in 1968, and joined Simon Fraser University and retired in 1999 as Professor Emeritus of Sociology.
Published books and articles on political economy, imperialism, people's social movements. Published short stories in orginal Hindi with translations in many languages. Also published albums of photographic studies and poetry.
Organizationally: President and founding member of Indian People's Association in North America (IPANA) in 1976, which had chapters in many cities of North America. Under the auspices of IPANA, organized a major 3-day conference, in 1987, under the title of "Centralized State Power, and
Threat to Minorities of India". Sayed Shahbuddin, MP, was the Chief guest for that conference.
President and Founding member of SANSAD (South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy). After the destruction of Babri Mosque, formed in Vancouver an organization called, Non-Resident Indians for Secularism and Democracy (NRISAD)in 1993, and carried out many activities to oppose the growing threats of Hindutava Fascism in India. In 2000, NRISAD's name was changed to SANSAD .
President of INSAF (International South Asian Forum), formed in 1999 in Montreal, as an attempt to provide a vehicle of coordination between concerned members and organizations of South Asian Diaspora in many cities of North America.
Member of the International Coordination Committee, International League of People's Struggles, formed in the Netherlands in 2001.
Dr. Omar Afzal
Education: Ph.D. Cornell University, M.A. Delhi University , M.A. Aligarh Muslim University
Honors: University Gold Medal 1971 Delhi University, Order of Merit Aligarh Muslim University
Language Proficiency: English (M.A.), Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, German, French, Persian, and Sinhala
Research Interest: Cultural, religious, ethnic and linguistic violence in South Asia. Islamic law, Islamic history, Contemporary Islamic resurgence, Islamic astronomy
Publications:
Suniye to.. 1958-1965 Hindi (Short stories in Hindi monthly Kanti)
Aaap ki Uljhane.. 1972 Urdu (Gender issues in Old Delhi)
Duur Samundar paar se.. 1992 Urdu (Anecdotes from American life)
Ruyat-e Hilal ke Masaael.. 1992 Urdu (Astronomical aspects of lunar calendar)
The Life of Muhammad.. 1973 English (Biography of the Prophet of Islam)
Sources of Islamic Shariah.. 1974 English (A large number of articles, papers, and commentaries in English, Hindi and Urdu 1958-2001)
Literary Activity:
Editorial Board - The Message (Monthly) New York - 1982
Sp. Correspondent - The Radiance (Weekly) New Delhi - 1992
Research in Progress:
Issues in Islamic jurisprudence, including banking, dietary laws and gender, Astronomical aspects of Islamic lunar calendar
Professional experience:
Cornell University - 1973
Delhi University - 1972-1973
Guest Lectures: Columbia Uni, Cornell Uni. Temple Uni., Rutgers Uni, SUNY, Albany, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Binghamton and many other Universities
Thesis Supervision:
Ph.D. Education/Islamic Studies - Cornell University 1988
Ph.D. Islamic Studies/Religion - NYC University 1989
M.A. Islamic Architecture/Reg.Planning - Cornell University 1989
Dr. Aslam Abdallah Dr. Aslam Abdullah is the editor of two prominent Muslim American papers. He edits monthly Minaret published from Los Angeles and the weekly Muslim Observer published from Detroit. Dr. Aslam Abdullah is well known for his community work, published books and involvement in relief activities. He is a speaker, journalist, writer and author of several books. He has published 11 books, and more 400 papers on issues pertaining to Muslims and Islam. He was vice chairman of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, former President of the American Muslim Federation of Muslims from India, a board member of the North American Association of Professional and Scholars. He was vice president of the American Islamic College in Chicago. Prior to that he edited the Arabia magazine published from London. In addition to that he has worked for the International Youth Center in New Delhi.
Dr. Aslam Abdullah is affiliated with several youth related activities in the country. He is part of the Muslim Student Network, a Washington based student group devoted to provide policy related training to Muslim students. He is also involved in youth camps as a youth trainer. Dr. Aslam Abdullah, a naturalized U.S. Citizen was born in India.
Publications:
Books published
1971 A Short History of Muslim Rulers
1973 A History of Palestinian people
1979 Youth Work in India
1980 A Short Survey of Religious Youth Movements in South Asia
1982 Youth Movements in India
1983 Youth organizations and Work in South Asia
1984 Youth Unemployment in India
1993 Babri Masjid
1996 Communal Violence in India
1999 A book of selected prayers
2000 A Chronology of Muslim World History
2000 A Book of Islamic terminology
2000 A History of the Quran
2001 Basic Concepts of Islam
2003 A history of the Compilation of the Quran
2003 An Encyclopedia of the Quran
Educational Status:
1992 Advanced journalism, Los Angeles
1988 Ph.D. in Journalism, London
1983 International Diploma in journalism, London
1979 Masters, Sociology, India
1973 Masters, Arabic, India
1971 Bachelor of Arts, English, Political Science, Arabic
