Seminar Series
The Working Journalists Seminar Series highlights current challenges, new directions, and the richness of diversity within the journalism field. Events are open to the public.
Media Coverage of the Somali Community
7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29
North Hall Auditorium, Room 222
Free & open to the public
Hassan Eibakar
Dr. Hassan A. Eibakar, born in Somalia, graduated with a degree in Veterinary and Animal Husbandry from Bologna University, Italy in 1962.
Throughout his life, Dr. Eibakar has been a leader in his community. In 1963 he was named Director General of the Livestock Development Agency within the Somali government. In 1970 he resigned to private activities and began a poultry farm in the capital of Mogadishu. Dr. Eibakar would later found a large cold storage facility that provided ice making for the city. Also, he directed an effort to build an oxygen production factory in Somalia. The public project eventually became a private enterprise.
After the deterioration of the Somali government in 1990, Dr. Eibakar moved to the United States. After settling in Minneapolis, he supported his family as an interpreter/translator in Somali, Italian, and English.
In the same period, he began publishing an English-language periodical, Bridging People, and also self-published the book Beyond The Rainbow, whose subject is the recent history of Somalia and its diaspora.
Currently, he operates the Warsan Times, a monthly newspaper aimed at informing and educating people on current Somali and East African issues.
Sponsored by UWRF Department of Journalism
Poster
Links of interest:
Society of Professional Journalists
Video of a February 2009 discussion in Minneapolis about media coverage of the Somali community.
http://www.mnspj.org/2009/02/14/video-news-coverage-of-the-somali-community-part-1-of-2/
Why Somalis don't trust the Twin Cities news media
Minnesota Public Radio's Bob Collins blogged about the February 2009 discussion noted above. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2009/02/why_somalis_...
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