Eyewitness Lebanon: One Year Later

Wednesday, July 18, at 9:30 am
Lisagor Room
National Press Club 529 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20045

As we mark the one-year anniversary of the 2006 summer tragedy in Lebanon, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute (ADC-RI) will host a panel discussion featuring Arab Americans who were trapped in Lebanon, what they experienced, and how they eventually fled the country. The discussion will include an analysis of the in-depth report entitled, Eyewitness Lebanon, July –August 2006: An International Law Inquiry.

Panel Experts include:
Kareem Shora - ADC National Executive Director
Carol Khawly - ADC Director of Legal Advocacy who was trapped with her children in Lebanon during the Israeli attack
Marty Rosenbluth - Country Specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority at Amnesty International USA
Houeida Saad - Editor and Field Researcher of Eyewitness Lebanon; July - August 2006, An International Law Inquiry
Bassem Beaini - 25 year-old Lebanese-American business-owner who was visiting Lebanon and arrived in Beirut a day prior to the Israeli attack.

The report Eyewitness Lebanon, July-August 2006: An International Law Inquiry, is based on extensive research from a wide variety of documented sources and includes first-hand interviews and accounts carried out by ADC-RI during a month-long fact finding mission. The mission was conducted by Arab-American attorney Houeida Saad who will discuss her methods of field research, including what she saw and with whom she spoke to obtain the first-hand information included in the report. The framework for the Report's legal inquiry is international law and international humanitarian law, also known as "the laws of war."