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Dear Friend
The Lebanese Information Center and
the American Lebanese Coalition are
teaming up with a number of Middle
Eastern American Organizations to
organize the largest Middle Eastern
American event ever done before in
the USA.
The Middle East is going to be a
very important issue in the upcoming
elections in November 2004.
Our views and the views of many
groups of Middle Eastern descent,
who believe in freedom and
democracy, and oppose terrorism and
fanaticism, have not been properly
conveyed, and our voices have not
been clearly heard.
Some institutes and centers in the
US have been falsely claiming over
the years to exclusively represent
the opinions and aspirations of all
Middle Eastern Americans, Arab
Americans, Lebanese Americans,
Muslim Americans,etc. and have not
been relaying accurate information
about our positions on major issues
facing the United States and the
World today.
We, representing Americans from
Middle East ancestry, men and women,
affiliated with all religious,
ethnic, religious, and political
backgrounds are coming together in
this major national event in
Washington, DC to tell the world and
the American people that we stand on
the side of freedom, democracy and
pluralism.
We are organizing the First American
Middle East Convention to be held in
Washington on Friday, October 1,
2004 at the Wardman Park Marriott,
starting at 6pm. Other cultural and
intellectual activities will take
place during the day.
The President and a number of US
Officials are invited.
This convention is the real window
to 4 million Americans from Middle
East descent in which they will
express their hopes and aspirations
for their ancestral lands and extend
their gratitude to the efforts of
advancing freedom in the Middle
East.
The Convention will gather American
organizations and individuals from
Lebanese, Iraqi, Egyptian, Iranian,
Syrian, Sudanese, Yemeni, Jordanian,
Palestinian, Turkish, Saudi,
Afghani, and other national origins.
It will include Sunni, Shiite,
Druze, Christian, Jewish and other
religious backgrounds. And it will
bring together Arabs, Kurds,
Chaldo-Assyrians, Persians, Turkic,
Armenian, Aramaic and other
ethnicities.
We are counting on you to come and
support your country the United
States, and the cause of Lebanon and
your mother countries in the Middle
East.
Please
mark your calendar: October 1, 2004
at Wardman Marriott Hotel in
Washington, DC.
The Lebanese Information Center
The American Lebanese Coalition
The Executive and the National
Committees of The Middle Eastern
American Convention
Washington DC
PS:
The tickets and programs will be
made available to you soon.
Joseph Gebeily, MD
President,
The Lebanese Information Center
The American Lebanese Coalition |