Egypt: Towards a Vibrant Civil Society (A Panel featuring Wael Ghonim)

Time Monday, May 23 · 6:00pm - 7:30pm Location MIT Campus, building 34 room 101 50 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA

More Info      Please Join us for an engaging conversation on the role of civil society in the middle east, grassing the roots of the Egyptian post-revolution using IT as a tool for development and social change. .  Speakers:  Wael Ghonim:  An active former Google Middle East Marketing Executive and creator of the Facebook page that helped spark the Egyptian revolution. Mona Mowafi: A research Fellow, Doctoral Candidate in Social Epidemiology in the Department of Society, Also work on health inequities and burden of chronic diseases in Egypt and the Arab world. Aly El Tayeb: Graduated from Cairo University. Worked on number of initiatives in the areas of university independence and elections monitoring.