WERU Full Circle Fair

We have two wonderful keynote speakers this year!

Dahr Jamail
Grandstand Stage
Saturday 7/28
3:00 - 4:00 PM

Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has spent 8 months reporting from occupied Iraq. He has covered the Middle East for four years, including reporting from Lebanon during the war during the summer of 2006. He writes regularly for the Inter Press Service and Al-Jazeera English, and has contributed to The Independent, The Guardian, The Sunday Herald, and The Nation. His forthcoming book, “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Independent Journalist in Occupied Iraq” will be published in October by Haymarket Books.

Helen Thomas
Grandstand Stage
Sunday 7/29
2:30 - 3:30 PM

WERU is proud to welcome “The First Lady of the Press,” Helen Thomas. For 57 years a reporter for United Press International and now a syndicated columnist for Hearst Newspapers, Helen has covered every White House since John F. Kennedy’s. Selected by The World Almanac as one of the 25 Most Influential Women in America, Helen has written three books, including her latest, Thanks for the Memories Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House.