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Presented By: American Civil Liberties Union Undergraduate Chapter

Reading the Media: Lessons from Palestine/Israel Coverage with Zayna Syed and Malak Silmi

South Asian Awareness Network Conference

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Zayna Syed is a freelance journalist who has reported for Public Health Watch, L'Orient Today, Popular Science, the Arizona Republic and the Dallas Morning News. She has reported stories from Texas, Michigan, Arizona and Lebanon. She is in the process of co-reporting a story on water equity in Palestine. Zayna graduated from the University of Michigan in 2021 with a BA in public policy and a minor in history. She served as an investigative reporter for The Michigan Daily and an editor for the Michigan Journal of International Affairs. Zayna is currently a master's student at Columbia Climate School.

Malak Silmi is a freelance journalist from Michigan. She recently worked for Outlier Media as the local government reporter covering Detroit’s city council, police and other departments. Before that, she worked for San Antonio Express-News in Texas, where she covered trending and breaking news. Silmi graduated with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and international studies from Wayne State University in 2020. During her college years, Silmi served as a reporter and news editor at the student newspaper, The South End, and completed internships at Michigan Radio, Detroit Metro Times and The New York Times Student Journalism Institute.

Hosted by the South Asian Awareness Network and Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, this 90-minute workshop is open to all students that want to expose themselves to South Asian social justice! Tote bags and t-shirts (limited quantity), along with refreshments, will be provided at no cost for attendees.

For more workshop details and registration, please visit bit.ly/saanference24. For more information, visit @um_saan on Instagram or email saan@umich.edu.

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