(1) increase awareness of international activities in the region, as well as promote & develop new activities,
(2) serve as a catalyst for building relationships between South Carolina & the rest of the world, &
(3) increase the visibility of South Carolina as a world-class state.

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Held Hostage in Lebanon for 2,354 day...
On June 9, 1995, on a road back from the airport in Beirut, Tom Sutherland was seizd at gunpoint by Ilamic Jihad, taken captive, and held hostage to their demands. For six and a half years, he spent every day face to face with terrorists.

Join the World Affairs Council
to hear Dr. Sutherland talk about his unique view of the bitter religious and factional conflict that has ravaged the Middle East, its war and terrorism, as well as his perspective of a man caught in upheaval, striving to survive, and finding in it in all the essence of what it is to be human...

A captivating and inspiring evening
that you won't want to miss!

Copies of Sutherland's book will be available for $20 incl. tax + $2.50 shipping & handling on the day of the dinner. All books are AUTOGRAPHED.