Furman speaker on Mideast journalism, Al Jazeera

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Former Middle East reporter Deborah Horan is speaking at Furman University on her work in the Middle East and the role of the television network Al Jazeera in the region.

Horan’s speech Wednesday at the university’s Younts Conference Center is free and open to the public.

Horan has worked for the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle and was based in Jerusalem for eight years.

In 2001, she won a Knight-Wallace Foundation Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she studied the Al Jazeera television network and its effects on Middle Eastern governments and media freedoms.

She is currently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Residence at the Riley Institute.