SAJA Webinar

Got an e-mail Tuesday about the "First-ever SAJA Webinar." Missed the live broadcast earlier today, but the audio is archived on the site: http://www.saja.org/webinars/elections2004.html

Here's the info from the e-mail:

First-ever SAJA WEBINAR



[TO LISTEN ON THURSDAY: http://www.saja.org/webinars/elections2004.html

or http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=25649 - you can register in

advance there.]



Post-Election Analysis brought to you by the South Asian Journalists

Association and PRNewswire.com



THURSDAY, NOV. 4, 2004 - live at your computer via a webcast

1 pm NY/DC time | San Fran: 10 am | Lahore: 11 pm | New Delhi: 11:30 pm |

Dhaka: Midnight | London: 6 pm



LIVE WEB PANEL: Looking Ahead: What the US Election Results Mean for South Asia

and South Asians in America



- A distinguished panel of experts and journalists react to the results two

days after the elections. We will also be briefed on how the various South

Asian American candidates did at the state and local levels.



This event is free and open to anyone around the world. You can listen to

the conversation live on the web and send in your questions to

sajahHQ@gmail.com in advance and during the event

(include your name and city/country; subject line = "webinar")



SPEAKERS: [ see bios and updates at

http://www.saja.org/webinars/elections2004.html ]



AZIZ HANIFFA

National editor, India Abroad

A Sri Lankan American journalist and only South Asian to have back-to-back

exclusive interviews with Bush & Kerry



FAHD HUSAIN

Anchor, "Followup With Fahd" on Geo TV, Pakistan's largest independent channel;

here in the US for six weeks covering the elections



NAEEM MOHAIEMEN

Bangladeshi actvisit, digital media journalist and filmmaker

Editor of progressive Muslim website Shobak.Org



PROF. PHILIP OLDENBURG

Columbia University Southern Asian Institute and co-editor, "India Briefing"

series



SANJAY PURI

Executive director, USINPAC, a bipartisan political action committee

representing the Indian American community on Capitol Hill and the White House



AMBASSADOR TERESITA C. SCHAFFER

Director for South Asia Program

Center for Strategic and International Studies



MODERATOR: Sreenath Sreenivasan

Columbia University journalism professor & WABC-TV reporter

SAJA co-founder



Preceded by five-minute briefing about how the 20 South Asian candidates for

office nationwide fared - and what appointments South Asians might received in

a new Bush or Kerry administration