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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Lesley University hosts Panel Discussion: Photojour
 nalism's role in the context of the Arab Spring\nEvent Url: http://www.art
 sboston.org/event/detail/441656022/Lesley_University_hosts_Panel_Discussio
 n_Photojournalisms_role_in_the_context_of_the_Arab_Spring\nEvent Date Begi
 n: 2013-01-30\nEvent Date End: 2013-01-30\n\nLesley University and the Con
 sulate General of France in Boston present a panel discussion on January 3
 0 at 7pm in Lesley's Washburn Auditorium.\nThe panel discussion\, held in 
 conjunction with the exhibit Revolutions: Photographs of the Arab Spring b
 y the late photojournalist Remi Ochlik\, will address the important role o
 f photojournalism in the context of the Arab Spring.\nIt will feature Step
 hen Mayes\, moderator\; Karim Ben Khelifa\, a Belgian-Tunisian photojourna
 list\; Ludovic Blecher\, executive director and editor-in-chief of French 
 newspaper Lib&eacute\;ration\; and Judith Matloff\, a professor at Columbi
 a University's graduate journalism program.\nAbout the panelists\nStephen 
 Mayes\, Moderator\, is Director of VII Photo in New York\, representing 23
  of the world's leading photojournalists. He has worked at the top levels 
 of photography for 25 years\, in the areas of journalism\, art\, commercia
 l and fashion &ndash\; working as manager of Network Photographers\; Chair
  of World Press Photo competition\; Senior Vice President at eyestorm.com 
 and Getty Images\; and Director of Image Archive at Art + Commerce. Mayes 
 regularly writes and broadcasts on the ethics and realities of photographi
 c practice.\nKarim Ben Khelifa is a Belgian-Tunisian photojournalist and c
 o-founder and CEO of Emphas.is\, a website designed to promote crowd-funde
 d visual journalism. For the past 12 years\, he has covered conflicts in t
 he Middle East and Africa and other stories around the world. His work has
  appeared in the New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Jo
 urnal\, Vanity Fair\, Time\, Le Monde and Stern. His photography awards in
 clude the 2004 Fujifilm Young Reporter Award. He also was selected for the
  2000 World Press Photo Joop swart Masterclass in the Netherlands.\nLudovi
 c Blecher is executive director and editor-in-chief of Lib&eacute\;ration\
 , where he has been in charge of the French newspaper's digital strategy s
 ince 2008. He joined Lib&eacute\;ration in 2001 as a reporter and was late
 r appointed editor-in-chief and oversaw the merger of the print and web st
 aff. Blecher is a member of ePresse\, a French media consortium. He is cur
 rently the Robert Waldo Ruhl Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.\nJudith 
 Matloff is a professor at Columbia University's graduate journalism progra
 m and was previously a foreign correspondent for 20 years. She has written
  about the dangers facing female correspondents\, and has been published i
 n The New York Times\, The Economist and Newsweek. She works for The Dart 
 Center for Journalism and Trauma.\nThe related exhibition\, Revolutions\, 
 presents a stirring collection of photographs by French photojournalist Re
 mi Ochlik\, who was killed in the February 2012 bombardment of Homs during
  the Syrian uprising along with American war journalist Marie Colvin.\nThe
  exhibit runs from January 26 until February 22\, 2013 in The Art Institut
 e of Boston (AIB) Main Gallery\, 700 Beacon Street\, Boston.
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SUMMARY:Lesley University hosts Panel Discussion: Photojournalism's role in
  the context of the Arab Spring
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