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Slava Ukrayini! Join The Philadelphia Citizen for a morning with MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi, who has just returned from six weeks of reporting from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Velshi's reports were explanatory and moving, bearing witness to barbarism and contextualizing tragedy. Now he'll fill you in on what war zone reporting is like off-camera—and how it's changed him and should change us. In conversation with Citizen co-founder Larry Platt.

The Middle East Center, co-sponsored by: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies Program are hosting The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians. In The Moral Triangle, Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans in Berlin to explore these asymmetric relationships in the context of official German policies, public discourse, and the private sphere.

In April 2016, computer technicians at the Democratic National Committee discovered that someone had accessed the organization’s computer servers and conducted a theft that is best described as Watergate 2.0. In the weeks that followed, the nation’s top computer security experts discovered that the cyber thieves had helped themselves to everything: sensitive documents, emails, donor information, even voice mails.

Micheal Scullin is the Honorary Consul of France in Philadelphia and Wilmington, DE. He is also a Philadelphia based lawyer practicing in the area of international, commercial and non-profit law.

Why did the Soviet Union collapse? The dissolution of the USSR is particularly puzzling because China -- also a Marxist-Leninist autocracy -- managed to ditch its centrally-planned economy while maintaining an authoritarian political structure. Christopher Miller’s research in Soviet archives has found that Soviet officials closely followed Chinese policy, and directly copied many Chinese reforms.

Doctors Without Borders is coming to Philadelphia for a FREE panel discussion!

FEATURING: 

The Honorable William F. Burns, Major General, U.S. Army, Retired

H.E. Ambassador Jack F. Matlock

Speaker Thomas de Waal is a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment, specializing primarily in the South Caucasus region as well as the wider Black Sea region. He is author of the authoritative book on the Karabakh conflict, Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War (NYU Press, 2003), which has been translated into Armenian, Azeri, and Russian. His latest book is The Caucasus: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is the co-author (with Carlotta Gall) of the book Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus (NYU Press, 1997), for which the authors were awarded the James Cameron Prize for Distinguished Reporting.

The German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt cordially invites you to a business breakfast at the Union League with Governor Dr. Reiner Haseloff to present business opportunities for US companies.