Los Angeles Press Club and the Daniel Pearl Foundation are pleased to invite you to meet the 2009 Daniel Pearl Fellows from Egypt and Pakistan at the Los Angeles Press Club, on Thursday, August 13, 2008 -- reception at 7:00 p.m., discussion at 7:30 p.m.

Established in 2003, in partnership with the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships, the Daniel Pearl Fellowship brings promising, mid-career foreign journalists to work for six months in U.S. newsrooms.

Rob Eshman, Editor in Chief, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and a former press club board member, will moderate the discussion with Sherine and Irfan on how America is viewed from abroad, especially in Pakistan, Egypt and other Muslim countries, and how their personal experiences fit those views.

Shahzada Irfan Ahmed, 37, is the first Daniel Pearl Fellow to work at the Houston Chronicle. He has been Assistant Editor and Special Correspondent for The News International since 2003, covering the economy, health, human rights, information technology, law, social issues and telecommunications. He also works as a visiting lecturer at state-owned Punjab University where he teaches master's students in Development Journalism.


Sherine El Madany, 27, is the third Daniel Pearl Fellow to join the staff of the Los Angeles Times. She has been at The Daily News Egypt since 2007, as a business reporter covering local and regional business news, including banking, corporate affairs, foreign exchange, inflation, investment, poverty, privatization and trade.