"What Palestinians Need" Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on KBOO 90.7 FM

Friday, August 28, 2009, 9:00am

"What Palestinians Need" Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on KBOO 90.7 FM

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Please tune in for a very special broadcast of KBOO's ONE LAND, MANY VOICES, next Friday, August 28th, at 9:00 AM, with special guest, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Dr. Barghouti will be talking about his recent column, "What Palestinians Need", which ran in the August 13-19 issue of Al-Ahram Weekly (see link below).

Tune in!

DATE: Friday, August 28th, 2009

TIME: 9:00 AM

Where: 90.7 FM KBOO listener-sponsored community radio
(100.7 FM in Corvallis, 90.9 FM in Hood River)

Dr. Barghouti is a physician and political activist focused on the development of Palestinian civil society and grassroots democracy. He is the international spokesman for the Palestinian NGO sector, and organizer of international solidarity presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Dr. Barghouti writes extensively for local and international audiences on civil society, democracy issues and the political situation in Palestine, and on health development policy for Palestinians living under occupation.

In addition, Dr. Barghouti is President of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, an NGO that provides health and community services to more than 1 million people annually in the Occupied Territories. He also serves as Director of the Health Development Information and Policy Institute, an independent Ramallah-based think-tank specializing in policy research and planning for the Palestinian health care system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Dr. Barghouti was a candidate for president of the Palestinian National Authority in 2005, garnering 19% of the vote.

"What Palestinians Need"
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/960/op13.htm