Amira Hass receives Lifetime Acheivment award

Amira Hass, the only Israeli journalist living and working in Gaza, will be honored with the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award from the International Women's Media Foundation this week. To read more about her work and the award, visit http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=1067&c=carticles. 

You can listen to her acceptance speech and see her full interview with Democracy Now! at: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/21/israeli_journalist_amira_hass
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Amira Hass will also be in North America to receive the 2009 Courage in Journalism award, presented in: 

New York City, October 20
http://www.iwmf.org/categorydetail.aspx?c=cijny

Los Angeles, October 28
http://www.iwmf.org/categorydetail.aspx?c=cijla

and will be discussed at The National Press Club in Washington, DC, October 26
http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=1063&c=carticles

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Hass will also be delivering several talks in the United States. Don't miss the opportunity to see her at: 

UCLA, November 3
http://www.international.ucla.edu/calendar/showevent.asp?eventid=7639

and

Columbia University, November 9
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/mei/

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Hass is the author of

Diary of Bergen-Belsen
1944-1945
Hanna Lévy-Hass (Author) Amira Hass (Foreword)
Haymarket Books
Published: 06/01/2009
9781931859875 | $20.00 | Trade Cloth
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