Linda Gradstein to speak at Bowdoin College

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When:
February 19, 2015 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
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Where:
Moulton Union
Campus Road South
Brunswick, ME 04011
USA
Contact:
Anne Clifford
207-725-3834
Email
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Bowdoin Gradstein Hillel lectures Middle East Journalist women

Linda Gradstein to speak at Bowdoin College:
“Do Women Do it Better, or Just Differently: Reflections on 25 Years as a Middle East Journalist“

  • Location: Moulton Union, Main Lounge
  • Event Type: Lecture
  • Sponsor: Bowdoin Hillel
  • Contact: Anne Clifford
  • – Open to the Public –
Linda Gradstein

Linda Gradstein

Linda Gradstein is a journalist who reports for AOL News and Public Radio International’s The World, and writes for the online magazine, Slate. She has covered important events in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, including the intifada, the mass immigration of Soviet immigrants to Israel, the leadership of Yasser Arafat, Hamas in Gaza, the Persian Gulf War, and major elections in Israel.
Gradstein was also the Israel correspondent for NPR News from 1990 until 2009.  She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as well as the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Persian Gulf War.
Sponsored by Bowdoin Hillel, the Women’s Resource Center and Gender and Women’s Studies