KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Burma & Iran: Elections, Democracy and Human Rights -- Kyi May Kaung and Hamid Akbari - NEIU, Chicago, March 31, 2010

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2010
1:25 PM - 2:40 PM
GOLDEN EAGLES
For more information please contact Academic Development at (773) 442-5449 or www.neiu.edu/~acdevelo
15th Annual Asian American Heritage Conference
“Human Rights: From Dialogue to Action”
BURMA AND IRAN: ELECTIONS,
DEMOCRACY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Introduction/
Moderator: Deberah Bernstein, Professor, Justice
Studies, NEIU
Presenters: Kyi May Kaung, Independent
Burma Scholar; Poet and Novelist
Hamid Akbari, Chair and
Professor, Management and
Marketing, College of Business
and Management, NEIU

This presentation compares and contrasts pro-democracy
struggles in Iran and Burma, with a focus
on the planned 2010 elections in Burma (Myanmar).

KyiMayKaung

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Burma & Iran: Elections, Democracy and Human Rights -- Kyi May Kaung and Hamid Akbari - NEIU, Chicago, March 31, 2010

Special--Pico Iyer's Aflame, The Art of Silence and another book--scroll down.

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