Listening to Whispers:
The Legacy of Anthony Shadid and his Reporting on the Arab World
New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died in February while on assignment in Syria. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, who was widely regarded as the best U.S. reporter working in the Middle East, had been scheduled to give a talk at the University of Texas on April 9. This program went forward to honor his work.
The event began with a screening of a portion of Shadid's 2005 lecture to a UT conference on "Journalism and the Arab World," introduced by Robert Jensen (School of Journalism).
David Hoffman, who was Shadid's editor when he worked at the Washington Post and knew him well, offered reflections and insights into Shadid's career. Hoffman covered foreign affairs, national politics, economics, and served as an editor at the Post for 27 years. His book The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. Hoffman is currently a contributing editor at the Washington Post and Foreign Policy.
Hoffman's presentation will be followed by a panel featuring UT faculty members Glenn Frankel (School of Journalism), Karin Wilkins (Media Studies and Center for Middle Eastern Studies) and Tarek El-Ariss (Arabic Studies).
There was a reception after the program, which was sponsored by the Institute for Communication on Media and the Middle East, School of Journalism, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, College of Communication, and Department of Radio-Television Film at the University of Texas.
Location: CMA 5.160 (LBJ Room), Guadalupe and Dean Keeton, University of Texas at Austin