Council member Khan visits Qatar

Houston City Council Member M.J. Khan of District F will be traveling to Doha, Qatar April 6-13 as a representative of the State Department's Speaker and Specialist Program. Council Member Khan will be meeting with local businessman, dignitaries, academics, students, and politicians from the region. During these visits, he will discuss topics ranging from Houston council business to the American political process and living as a Muslim in the United States. He will visit students at some of the local universities and schools including Qatar University and the Texas A&M University Campus in Doha. He will also visit with the Central Municipal Council, Pakistani Youth Society, and Qatar Businessmen’s Association.

The State Department's U.S. Speaker and Specialist Program facilitates communication between individual Americans, representatives of the broad range of expert, responsible and informed opinion, and key foreign audiences. The U.S. Speaker and Specialist Program awards grants to American experts to present lectures, serve as consultants, or conduct workshops and seminars for professional audiences in a wide range of disciplines. Council Member Khan has been an active participant in the Speaker’s Program:

I am proud to serve my country in this capacity. This is a great opportunity and I believe it will go a long way to help eliminate a lot of the negative stereotypes that people living overseas may have of the U.S.

Khan also recently traveled to D.C. in early March to take part in a webcast, also hosted by the U.S. State Department. He spoke with journalists and students in Morocco, India, Sri Lanka, and Liberia about his work as a Houston City Council Member. The USINFO Web Cast is being broadcast online and overseas and will allow thousands more people to learn about Houston and our City Council.