On Wednesday, October 23 at 6pm in Weis Cinema, Dina Ramadan will be joined in conversation by Lina Attalah. Lina Attalah has worked as a journalist for the last two decades, covering some of the Arab world’s most significant events. As co-founder and editor of Mada Masr, a leading independent online newspaper, she will discuss some of the challenges and risks of working as a journalist in Egypt today and journalism as an act that gestures toward truth finding as opposed to a finitude.

Lina Attalah is the publisher and founding editor of Mada Masr, a Cairo-based news website. She has been a journalist covering the region for the last two decades, with reporting on revolutions in Egypt and Lebanon, civil wars in Syria and Sudan, the siege of Gaza, and electoral politics in Iran.

Dina A. Ramadan is Continuing Associate Professor of Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies, and Faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies. She is a 2023 recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.