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Calling All Tchotchkes and New Friends for OPC Party Panel on The THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • February 2013 Calling All Tchotchkes and New Friends for OPC Party What will this than half way thru EVENT PREVIEW: MARCH 8 year’s Tchotchke Par- the billing cycle. So a by Aimee Vitrak ty feature? It’s up to New Young Member Dust off your Qadaffi carpets, Al- enough raucous cor- will pay $70 for a year banian belt buckles, Barbie burkas respondents to RSVP and a half member- and any other “liberated” items from and bring a potential ship. overseas postings for the OPC’s OPC member. OPC The event will be second Tchotchke Party on Friday, member Yvonne Dun- hosted again by OPC March 8. The evening will have Col. el-Qadaffi carpet cocktails, dim sum and a Foreign leavy and husband Board member Minky Correspondent story night. Joost Schiereck have Worden and Gordon Crovitz at their This event is also a membership generously agreed to donate $30 home located at 55 Liberty Street, recruitment effort. Next year, the toward the $100 memberships for penthouse 30, on March 8 at 7 p.m. OPC celebrates its 75th anniversary; Young members (under 35 years of RSVP is essential. Call the OPC at every member of the international age). New members will also have 212-626-9220 or e-mail boots@op- reporting community should be en- an extended time since we are more cofamerica.org couraged to join an organization that supports press freedom, and journal- ists, around the world. Panel on the Shia and Sunni Divide The first Tchotchke Party, held in nott, Executive Editor of Global- EVENT PREVIEW: MARCH 13 March 2011, went over so big that it Post, which is launching a multi- was featured as a “Talk of the Town” News events roiling in the Mid- part series on the issue. piece in The New Yorker. Ben Mc- dle East right now from the civil The divide dates back to the death Grath wrote that the party was “an war in Syria to the episodic upris- of the Prophet Muhammad and the élite form of war-zone show-and- ings in Bahrain to a recent spate of division in ideology, religion and tell, which prompted questions from bombings in post-war Iraq all have politics. Muslims were torn between participants like ‘At what point is it a historical theme and an ancient electing a head-of-state or having a looting?’ and ‘Who else has stolen enmity running through them: the family member of Muhammad’s be the ashtray from the Rex Hotel?’ (in Sunni-Shia divide. the successor. A friend of the Islam- To help frame these news stories Saigon).” ic prophet Muhammad was elected and to mark the 10th anniversary of and this caused a split that contin- the war in Iraq, the OPC will hold ues; Sunnis agreed with the deci- a panel discussion that will explore sion to elect a leader, while Shias Inside. the history and the modern politics of the Sunni and Shia divide in the recognized Ali ibn Abi Talib, as the Scholars Luncheon Recap...........3-7 Muslim world. family member of Muhammad’s to “It’s a critical time to deepen be their leader, or as the Shia see it, Reporting Fellowship Launch..........7 our understanding of the Sunni and Islam’s first Imam and the rightful successor to Muhammad. People........................................8-12 Shia divide and to analyze how con- temporary politics so often fans the Today, 85 percent of Muslims People Remembered....................12 flames of this division. It’s been a are Sunnis who recognize the deci- truism throughout many centuries, sion to elect a successor. The larg- Hackers Impact Press Freedom....13 but recently there seems to be a dis- est population of the minority Shia Muslims resides in Iran and Iraq Raymer Book Night Recap........14-15 tinct uptick in the tensions in Syria, in Bahrain, in Iraq, in Pakistan and while large minority communities New Books....................................16 elsewhere,” said Charles M. Sen- (Continued on Page 2) OPC Panel Discussion on the Shia and Sunni Divide (Continued From Page 1) militant Islam, regional politics, the dent digital media project exploring of Shia also live in Yemen, Bah- war on terror and is currently writ- a new model of storytelling around rain, Syria and Lebanon. While the ing a book about the struggle be- a global crisis. She is a Huffington two streams of Islam share many of tween Saudi Arabia and Iran, titled Post correspondent and previously the same philosophies, rituals and The Quiet War. covered the Middle East from Dubai beliefs, the fundamental point of an for ABC News, Bloomberg Televi- n Charles M. Sennott is the elected or bequeathed leadership re- sion and the International Herald executive editor and co-founder mains, and at times further erodes, Tribune. of GlobalPost, the web-based site the division in religion and politics. for international The OPC has assembled a panel n news. Before Calvin Sims, Program Offi- to help navigate how the history of this new venture, cer, Freedom of Expression Unit of the Sunni-Shia divide informs the Sennott was a the Ford Founda- present-day politics and geography long time foreign tion, will mod- in the Middle East: correspondent erate the panel. for The Boston Prior to joining n Mohamad Bazzi is an assis- Globe serving as the Ford Foun- tant professor of journalism at New Middle East bu- dation in 2007, York University where he teaches Sennott reau chief based Calvin spent two international reporting. At the in Jerusalem decades at The Council on Foreign Relations he is from 1997 to 2001. Sennott is a fre- New York Times an adjunct senior fellow for Middle Sims quent analyst of the Middle East for as a foreign cor- East studies and was their 2008 the BBC, CNN, PBS NewsHour and respondent in Buenos Aires, Tokyo Edward R. Mur- NPR. row Press Fel- and Jakarta. low. Bazzi was n Lara Setra- The event takes place on Wednes- the Middle East kian is a foreign day, March 13. Reception begins at bureau chief at correspondent, 6 p.m. at Club Quarters, 40 West 45 Newsday from co-founder and Street, and the panel discussion will 2003 to 2007. He managing editor begin at 6:30 p.m. To RSVP, call has written ex- of SyriaDeeply. the OPC at 212-626-9220 or e-mail tensively about Bazzi org, an indepen- Setrakian [email protected]. OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Deidre Depke Santiago Lyon ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jonathan Dahl Executive Editor VP and Director of MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Former Editor-in-Chief The Daily Beast Photography Brian Byrd David A. Andelman Editor Smart Money Associated Press Program Officer John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Adam B. Ellick NYS Health Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD *Video and Print Marcus Mabry Foundation Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Jacqueline Albert- Journalist Editor at Large William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson Simon The New York Times International Herald Emma Daly Marshall Loeb Editor U.S. Bureau Chief * on leave attending Tribune Communications Larry Martz Forbes Asia Politique Internationale Harvard Kennedy School Director Roy Rowan John Martin Human Rights Watch Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Arlene Getz Writer/Editor Larry Smith Abigail Pesta JD/MBA student Editor-in-Charge, Media Sarah Lubman Richard B. Stolley Freelance Journalist Yale University Thomson Reuters Romesh Ratnesar Partner Deputy Editor Brunswick Group EXECUTIVE THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Rebecca Azmat Khan Bloomberg DIRECTOR Toni Reinhold Blumenstein Digital Producer Businessweek Minky Worden Sonya K. Fry Editor in Charge, Page One Editor PBS - Frontline Director of Global New York Desk The Wall Street Journal Tom Squitieri Initiatives EDITOR Reuters Evelyn Leopold Freelance Journalist Human Rights Watch Aimee Vitrak Paul Brandus Independent Journalist TREASURER West Wing Report United Nations Seymour Topping Abi Wright OPC Dorinda Elliott Emeritus Director ISSN-0738-7202 Global Affairs Editor Howard Chua-Eoan Daphna Linzer Professor of Alfred I. duPont – Copyright © 2002 Conde Nast Traveler News Director Senior Reporter International Columbia University Over seas Press Club of Time Pro Publica Journalism Awards America Columbia University 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • February 2013 • Page 2 Eager for a Chance, Scholars Seize Spotlight at Luncheon EVENT RECAP: FEBRUARY 22 by Aimee Vitrak The Yale Club Ballroom was filled to capacity for the OPC Foundation Scholarship Luncheon on February 22. This year’s event launched the Nathan S. Bienstock Memorial Scholarship and the GroundTruth Fellow- ship. OPC Foundation board member and Global Post co-founder Charles M. Sennott introduced the $10,000 GroundTruth Fellowship for freelance correspondents Michael Dames who have more than three years of experience and pro- pose a reporting project in the Middle East (see page 7). David Rohde gave the keynote address. The Foundation awarded a combination of scholar- “ground truth,” hitting the same theme as the luncheon’s ships and funded internships to 14 graduate and under- beginning announcement of the GroundTruth Fellow- graduate students from a wide range of academic insti- ship. tutions and from every region of the country. “You will have a front row seat to history,” Rohde The David R. Schweisberg Memorial Scholarship said. “There will be moments of despair and setbacks winner Jad Sleiman began his reporting career as a com- but don’t give up.” bat correspondent for the U.S. Marine Corps. He said One might assume that this well-decorated journalist that the call to be a journalist is “a mandate to humanize who has been held captive twice has lived a charmed people oceans away.” OPC Foundation President Wil- existence, but Rohde’s fight to become a journalist was liam J.
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