In a message dated 8/1/2001 1:25:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gtrone@webtv.net writes:

Dear Brothers and Sisters

There will be a group of representatives of eight theater professionals from the West Bank and Gaza touring your city in the near future. They are being brought here by the Department of State/Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs as part of the International Visitor Program. These visitors are usually entrusted to local international centers that usually do a good job addressing the professional needs of these visitors but lack in putting them in touch with the local Arab or Palestinian Communities. This contact is of vital importance to our communities here and to the represented groups from there. Below I have listed the phone contact and the dates during which this group will be in your cities. If any of you can make the time to contact and meet these people and spend some time with them playing host and friend it will be wonderful. We here in Louisville were fortunate enough to be part of their tour. Our contact with them and their visit was the utmost of rewards.

To contact this group please contact: George Ibrahim or Edward Muallem
Tucson, Arizona 7/29-7/31 at Plaza International (520) 327-4341
Program Coordinated by: Tucson Council for International Visitors (520) 326-4673

Seattle, Washington 8/1-8/6 at Hampton Inn and Suites (206)282-7700
Program Coordinated by: World Affairs Council of Seattle (206)441-5910

New York, NY 8/7-8/10 at Mansfield Hotel (212) 764-4477
Program Coordinated by: US Department of State, Office of Int. Program (212) 399-5750

Ibrahim Imam
Associate Professor
Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department
Speed Scientific School
University Of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
U.S.A.