Loujain Al-Hathloul is a UBC alumna and wo men’s rights activist\, who spearheaded the charge for women’s rights and p ushing for the right to drive in Saudi Arabia. Loujain was kidnapped from t he UAE in March 2018 and deported to Saudi Arabia where she was arrested fo r a few days\, then put under a travel ban. She is currently still in Saudi prison\, for over a year and a half now\, even though the Kingdom has lift ed the female driving ban leaving Loujain and many other women’s rights rem aining jailed. There have been direct accounts from Loujain herself and her siblings that she has been tortured\, sexually harassed\, and threatened w ith rape and murder in jail by Saudi authorities. UBC and President Santa O no have been vocal about the unfair conditions regarding Loujain’s arrest a nd her inability to reach the outside world.
Join us for this informa tive panel & campaign created by UBC alumna Dalya Al Masri that aims to dis cuss human rights\, free speech in the middle east\, and the unfairness of UBC alumna Loujain Al-Halthoul’s imprisonment\, while pushing UBC to award her an honorary doctorate for her human rights activism.
Light refres hments (pizza) will be provided. Please RSVP.
ABOUT THE MODER ATOR
Dalya Al Masri is a Palestinian-Canadi an political analyst and UBC alumna. She has worked with Amnesty Internatio nal and the United Nations Association in Canada on local and global human rights issues\, and most recently as a journalist. Dalya’s motivation for t his event was due to witnessing human rights violations first-hand in Saudi Arabia and the UAE\, as well as hearing about the murder of Washington Pos t Saudi journalist\, Jamal Khashoggi.
ABOUT THE PANEL
Sima Godfrey teaches French Literature and Cultura l History in the Department of French\, Hispanic and Italian Studies at UBC . She was the Founding Director of the UBC Institute for European Studies w hich she headed from 1998 – 2007. Loujain Al-Hathloul was her student in a course entitled “Qu’est-ce que la francité?” (“What is Frenchness?”).
Atiya Jaffar is a Digital Strategist with 350 Canada\, an organization dedicated in tackling climate change\, and organizer with Van couver-based group Friends of Loujain. Atiya met Loujain during their time at UBC from 2011-2014 where they became fast friends.
Adel Is kandar is a British-born Middle East media scholar\, postcolonial theorist\, analyst\, and academic. He is the author and co-author of severa l works on Arab media\, most prominently an analysis of the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera. He is also a co-editor of Jadillya\, an Ezine\, with hu man rights lawyer Noura Erakat. Currently\, he is an Assistant Professor of Global Communication at SFU.
Michelle Ghoussoub is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist with CBC News in Vancouver who has written o n Loujain’s case. She has previously reported in Lebanon and Chile and grad uated from the UBC School of Journalism in 2016.
Additional panel mem bers TBC.
Co-Hosted by: UBCSchool of Public Policy a nd Global Affairs\; Amnesty International Vancouver\; UBC Institute for Gen der\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice.
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