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

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.

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