Edward Said Memorial Lecture

Jennifer Zacharia is an attorney and writer.  She holds a JD from Columbia Law School and an MIA from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.  A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, she has worked as a journalist and with various human and civil rights organizations. She is Shireen Abu Akleh’s first cousin.

Said Arikat is a Member of the Palestine Center Committee, and the Washington bureau chief for the Palestinian newspaper al-Quds, a daily for which he is a writer, columnist, and analyst. He previously served as spokesman and director of public information for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, and currently teaches as an adjunct professor at American University in Washington, DC.