Four days before the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese government faced an unexpected wave of violence in the heart of the country's restive Muslim homeland. On August 4, a small group of Islamic militants staged a daring attack on a police station near Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Province and killed 16 security officers.
Pulitzer Photojournalist Presents Work in Carbondale, IL, 10/1
Published October 1, 2009
Event date:
October 1, 2009 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Telling the Stories through Images of Muslim Minorities in the Asia-Pacific
Thursday, October 1, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Dean's Conference Room
SIU - Carbondale
Ryan Anson will share his work from Mindanao, a war-ravaged island in the southern Philippines, of the Uighurs in China's Xinjiang Province, and of Thailand's Malay people in the southern border region. Raised in Kenya, Anson has published stories in outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Smithsonian Magazine. He frequently contributes to Bloomberg News and Agence France-Presse.
This event and Anson's reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: www.pulitzercenter.org
Please RSVP to the Journalism School office: 618-536-3361 or jschool@siu.edu
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