Feb 20, 2008 3:22 PM

Not to be missed: David Brooks

After the tragic kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002, his friends and family, led by his father, UCLA Computer Science Professor Judea Pearl, formed a foundation in Daniel’s name to promote and continue his mission of fostering cross-cultural understanding throughout the world. Remembered as a symbol of hope, Daniel was covering America’s war on terrorism, looking for the root causes of hatred that eventually took his life.

To celebrate his memory, the foundation, together with UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA, will host the sixth annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, featuring David Brooks, op-ed columnist for The New York Times since 2003 and commentator on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly.

The free lecture on journalism, world culture and politics will be held Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. in Korn Convocation Hall.

RSVP to burkle@international.ucla.edu.

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