An article in this Vermont Web weekly mentions that Wayne State professor Mahmoud Abdalla (Near Eastern and Asian Studies Department) will speak Sunday at a "Symposium on Terror and the Mass Media" to be held at Middlebury College. A native of Egypt , Abdalla will open the event with a discussion about the role of Arab media in shaping public opinion. He says he'd like to see more Western journalists enrolled in his Arabic language course in the interest of accurate and knowledgeable coverage of conflict in the Middle East . A photo of Abdalla accompanies the article.