2009 Nov 8 - 4:00pm



MOHAMMED OMER, "The Voice of the Voiceless", was born and raised in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. A journalist for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, he has had articles and photographs featured in publications around the world.
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| Dahr Jamail (left) and Mohammed Omer (right), co-recipients of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, being congratulated by John Pilger in London on June 16, 2008. Photo by Paul de Rooij, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. |
In 2008, Omer became the youngest journalist ever to be awarded the Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalism. He was honored as “the voice of the voiceless” whose reporting constituted a “humane record of the injustice imposed on a community forgotten by much of the world.”
As he was traveling back to the Gaza Strip from the award ceremony in London, he was beaten and humiliated by Israeli soldiers at the Allenby Bridge border crossing. His treatment precipitated an international outcry. 


Following Mohammed Omer’s presentation, plans for THE GAZA FREEDOM MARCH will be described by one of its organizers, 
NANCY MURRAY, President of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation. She will talk about how students can get involved. 
For more information, contact gazafreedommarch@gmail.com
Mr. Omer will also speak at Harvard College, Emerson Hall 305, on Friday, November 6, at 6pm.
Sponsors: Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety's Justice with Peace Task Force and Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
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