Join us for a special forum and panel discussion with Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-prize-winning former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, Antoinette Lattouf, broadcaster, author, speaker and human rights advocate, and Randa Abdel-Fattah, Palestinian Egyptian Australian writer, human rights activist and academic.
SPEAKERS:
CHRIS HEDGES
Chris is the Pulitzer-prize-winning former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, and the author of 16 books, including his latest, A Genocide Foretold. Chris has been outspoken about the complicity of the Western press, and its betrayal of Palestinian journalists, and is currently working on a graphic novel with pioneering cartoonist Joe Sacco based on in-depth interviews with Palestinians from Gaza.
ANTOINETTE LATTOUF
Antoinette is an award winning journalist, presenter, podcaster, author and human rights advocate. Her case, Lattouf v ABC, became a flashpoint in debates about free speech, institutional cowardice, and what happens when a journalist speaks truth to (media) power. In 2024 she was awarded the NSW Council for Civil Liberties President's Award for journalism and Liberty Victoria Voltaire Human Rights award for amplifying human rights atrocities in Gaza and taking a stance in defence of a free and fair press.
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH
Randa is a Palestinian Egyptian Muslim Australian writer, academic and former lawyer. She is the author of 12 books including a new novel Discipline (UQP) and recently joined the successful boycott of the Bendigo Writers Festival over its attempts to censor speakers over Palestine. Randa has been targeted over her outspoken support for Palestine through the suspension of her university research project.
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