Rania Masri, founder and coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition, will discuss her efforts to stop violence in the Middle East and elsewhere during a presentation at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 27 in Yeager Recital Hall. Details…
Masri has been involved in a variety of activist movements to call attention to violence in the Middle East. She founded the Iraq Action Coalition (IAC) in 1995, which opposes U.S. economic sanctions and military action against Iraq. Masri is also a national board member of Peace Action, a grass-roots peace organization which promotes global disarmament, reduction in military spending and the end of the international arms trade. She is also on the board of the Education for Peace in Iraq Center, and is on the steering committee of the Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition.
Masri is a frequent lecturer at universities throughout the United States and is a regular guest on television and radio talk shows. She has also published several book chapters and journal articles dealing with economic sanctions, media coverage of Iraq and the environmental challenges faced by the Middle East.
Her presentation, which is sponsored by the nonviolence minor committee, the international majors committee and the political science department, is free and open to the public.