Jan. 31 is Application Deadline for Journalism Fellowships to India, Malaysia and the U.S.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact:
Derek Ferrar
Media Relations Specialist
East-West Center
Phone: (808) 944-7204
Email: ferrard@EastWestCenter.org

American and Asian Journalists to Focus on Issues
in the U.S. and among Asia’s Muslims

HONOLULU (Dec. 19) -- The East-West Center is accepting fellowship applications from Asian and American journalists who want to learn more about the United States and Muslims in Asia.

The Senior Journalists Seminar, a travel-and-dialogue program, will take American journalists to Kolkata (Calcutta), India and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Asian journalists will travel to Washington, D.C., New York City and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

All journalists will begin and end their travel at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, where they will discuss their travels.

With the theme of “Building Understanding between the United States and the Asian Muslim World,” the program will include meetings on the politics, economies, religions, cultures and media of the countries they visit.

The program is scheduled for June 8-28, 2008.

Application deadline: Jan. 31, 2008. Asian applicants must come from countries with significant Muslim populations, specifically Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

The East-West Center will cover participants’ roundtrip airfare for the study tour, all lodging and per diem. Participants must cover their visa fees and roundtrip airfare between their home cities and Honolulu, Hawaii.

For more details, visit www.eastwestcenter.org/senior-journalists.

Contact: Susan Kreifels at kreifels@eastwestcenter.org or call (808) 944-7176.

The EAST-WEST CENTER is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. government, with additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations and the governments of the region.

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