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Founder of nonprofit Fund for the Future of Children Anne Brodsky participated in a panel with other researchers on children in Afghanistan at the Berkley Center on Wednesday.

Panel Discusses Afghan Youth

By Sarah Fisher October 16, 2015

Five contributors to "Children of Afghanistan: The Path to Peace," a book on the lives of the country’s youth, participated in a panel at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs on...

Student Play Makes Debut at Kennedy Center

By Caroline Welch September 11, 2015

Seven actors took to the stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Terrace Theater Monday for a 50-minute reading of the student-written "Pandemopium," Georgetown’s entry to the...

Connor Rohan Wrote a Play!

Connor Rohan Wrote a Play!

By Sara Carioscia and Sara Carioscia September 6, 2015

GUSA vice president, improv extraordinaire and rumored Georgetown Heckler contributor strikes again: this time with a play at the esteemed Kennedy Center. Connor Rohan (COL '16) definitely has...

AMAR BAKSHI
The portal, on N Street, allows Georgetown students and D.C. residents to connect with people in Herat, Afghanistan.

7,500 Miles in 15 Minutes

By Alicia Che April 10, 2015

As students rushed to and from their classes in the Edmund A. Walsh Memorial building this week, they passed by a nondescript gold shipping container on N Street — unaware that, inside, unprecedented...

Portal to Perspectives

By The Editorial Board April 9, 2015

A golden shipping container at 3622 N St. NW that provides a direct video link to artists, students and citizens at Hariwa Univeristy in Herat, Afghanistan will serve as a way for Georgetown students and...

Tweets on Fleek

Tweets on Fleek

By Sara Carioscia and Sara Carioscia March 27, 2015

Twitter has been on fleek lately, even though a lot of popular accounts have just been sharing the same jokes – I’m looking at you, @CommonWhiteGirl, @FillWerrell and @GirlPosts. Lame! Despite this...

Expert Discusses Afghani Presidential Elections

Expert Discusses Afghani Presidential Elections

By Matthew Larson October 17, 2014

Richard Kraemer, a senior program officer at the National Endowment for Democracy, spoke about the future of Afghanistan in an event sponsored by the School of Foreign Service and the Prince Alwaleed Bin...

$1M Opus Prize Awarded

By Gene Choi November 15, 2013

For her efforts empowering Afghan women and children through education, Sakena Yacoobi received the $1 million 2013 Opus Prize Award in Copley Formal Lounge on Wednesday. "On behalf of the women of Afghanistan...

Film Captures Education Inequality

By Allie Doughty March 22, 2013

After watching a 30-minute preview of the documentary Girl Rising, I was more moved than I had been by every movie that I had seen in 2012 combined. Directed by Richard Robbins, the film traces the...

Karzai Discusses Afghan-U.S. Relations

By Mariah Byrne January 11, 2013

More than 10 years after his first lecture in the United States, held in the same location, Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited Georgetown this evening to talk about the future of Afghanistan’s...

Karzai to Speak on Campus Friday

By Braden McDonald January 7, 2013

Afghan President Hamid Karzai will speak on Afghan-American relations in Gaston Hall Friday, according to Georgetown’s press office. The remarks, titled “Afghanistan Beyond 2014: A Perspective...

STIRRETT: Foreign Policy in Focus

By Scott Stirrett October 29, 2012

According to Peter Beinart of The Daily Beast, neither President Obama nor Governor Romney won the recent foreign policy debate. The real winner was George W. Bush because “the framework for understanding...

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