TONIGHT:Bruce Bawer & Hege Storhaug The Problems of Immigration in Europe

TONIGHT:

Don't Miss this important discussion on immigration

Bruce Bawer & Hege Storhaug

The Problems with Immigration in Europe.

June 8, 2011, 7 PM

Library & Archives Canada

395 Wellington

Admission: $20.00, Students $10.00

Tickets available at the door.

Please join us for an amazing evening when Bruce Bawer returns to Ottawa with his colleague Hege Storhaug to speak on the problems of immigration in Europe
 
Hege Storhaug is the information director of Human Rights Service in Norway and the author of several books on immigration and integration, forced marriage, women in Pakistan, and related subjects.


Few people have such intimate details of what is actually happening on the ground in Europe. Storhaug has travelled over 17 times to Pakistan to monitor the situation of Norwegian Muslims as they are forcibly returned home for schooling and other reasons.

Storhaug will present facts and figures and also be ready to autograph copies of her new book.

Bruce Bawer is an internationally-acclaimed author, whose recent book is "Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom".

David Harris, an expert on security and terrorism, will also be on hand to add a Canadian perspective.
 
Join our free panel discussion:



Persecuted Minorities Living Under Tyranny

The Free Thinking Film Society invites you to join Bruce Bawer, Peter Stockland and Benjamin Weinthal for a captivating panel discussion on the persecution of Christians and Gays & Lesbians overseas, and the left wing establishment's ignoring of real international human rights problems.

The atrocities Christians and Gays face overseas often goes unreported. The Christian population in the Middle East has been dwindling for decades while persecution in places like Iraq is on the rise. Gays & Lesbians live in fear as their basic human rights are denied and face the death penalty for acting on who they are.

All this takes place while groups like "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid," unions and academics focus their efforts on discrediting the only state in the Middle East where human rights of all people are respected.

In a discussion moderated by Chantal Desloges (One Free World International), Bruce, Peter and Benjamin will bring to light these important issues in a dialogue that endeavours to identify opportunities for change in places where tyranny prevails.

When: Friday, June 10, 3:30-5:00pm
Where: Oak Room, Westin Hotel

There is no cost to attend this event however seating is limited. RSVP to: info@freethinkingfilms.com

Bruce Bawer - Acclaimed author and social commentator

Considered one of America's leading cultural critics, Bruce Bawer was born in New York City in 1956 and received his BA, MA, and PhD in English from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Described by Kirkus Reviews as "a literary essayist for the ages," he has published several volumes of literary criticism, including Diminishing Fictions (1988), The Aspect of Eternity (1993), and Prophets and Professors (1995). His other books include A Place at the Table (1993), one of the most influential books ever written about homosexuality; Stealing Jesus (1997), which Publishers Weekly called "a must-read book for anyone concerned with the relationship of Christianity to contemporary American culture"; Coast to Coast (1993), which was named by the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook as the year's best first book of poems; and While Europe Slept (2006), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestseller. Bawer's latest book, Surrender (2009), was described by Booklist as "sublimely literate and rational...immensely important and urgent." Bawer has also contributed hundreds of articles and reviews to such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, City Journal, The Wilson Quarterly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, Cato Policy Report, The Nation, and The Times Literary Supplement, and is a regular contributor of literary essays to The Hudson Review. Since 1999 he has made his home in Oslo, Norway.

Peter Stockland - Former Journalist and Director of the Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal

Peter Stockland is Director of the Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal and a Senior Fellow with Cardus policy institute.

Prior to becoming director of the Centre, he was vice-president of English-language magazines for Readers' Digest Magazines Canada Ltd. He is a former editor-in-chief of The Gazette newspaper in Montreal, a former editorial page editor of the Calgary Herald newspaper and has worked as a journalist throughout Canada during his 30-year career in the media.

He currently runs his own communications company, Prima Communication, in Montreal where he lives with his wife, Linda. In addition to his journalism career, he is also a fiction writer who has published in numerous magazines across the country. His short story If Only collection will published by Siren Song Press this fall.

Benjamin Weinthal - Journalist and Research Fellow with the Foundation for Denfense of Democracies

Benjamin Weinthal, a Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) research fellow based in Berlin and member of FDD's Iran Human Rights Project , is an investigative reporter. He has uncovered efforts by European companies to circumvent sanctions, exposed the extensive trade relations between Europe and Iran, and written on Iranian human rights abuses against Iran's persecuted gay and Baha'i communities.

Benjamin is an internationally-recognized journalist who serves as FDD's eyes and ears on the ground in Central Europe.

Benjamin's investigative reporting has contributed greatly to the West's understanding of the Iranian energy sector. In November 2007, Benjamin broke a story revealing $5.7 billion in business transactions between Germany and Iran, establishing Germany as Iran's most important trading partner in the EU. In 2008, energy and engineering giant Siemens reduced its trade with Iran following a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Benjamin wrote. A January 2010 article by Benjamin reported on the pro-Iranian trade practices of the German-Emirati Joint Council for Industry and Commerce, which advised companies how to go through the United Arab Emirates to avoid sanctions.

He published the first English-language reports on the sale of Siemens-Nokia surveillance technology to Iran's regime, which was used to repress Iran's pro-democracy movement and dissidents.

Benjamin reports on European-Iranian relations, human rights violations in the Islamic Republic, and Europe-based anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism for The Wall Street Journal Europe, Slate, The Advocate, Gay City News in New York, The New Republic, The National Review Online, The New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, and The Weekly Standard.

Benjamin earned his BA in Philosophy at New York University and a Masters in European Literature and Culture from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.