Zogby: “Using and Abusing Polls”
AAI President and Director of Zogby Research Services (ZRS), Dr. James Zogby, addresses some concerns with interpretations being given to the results of the most recent ZRS poll in Egypt: Egyptian Attitudes: Divided and Polarized. AAI released the data on November 26th.
One Step at a Time— the Gabr Fellows’ Story
In the midst of the confusion and uncertainty that characterizes current US-Egypt relations and with American and Egyptian attitudes toward each other having plummeted to all-time lows, I recently had the opportunity to participate in a "little" gem of a project that shows a way forward.
Yalla Vote Launches Voter Registration Widget
Today, on National Voter Registration Day, AAI and the Yalla Vote campaign launched a new voter registration widget. The widget is designed to make registering to vote easier than ever for our community. Simply enter your information into the secure online form and the widget will pull up all the appropriate forms for you to complete that are required by your state’s Board of Elections.
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Wednesday December 04, 2013
ZRS Poll Release: Iranian Attitudes Toward Rouhani and Iran’s Nuclear Program
On August 3, 2013, Hassan Rouhani took office as president of Iran. Shortly thereafter, from August 26 to September 22, 2013, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) surveyed 1,205 adults across Iran in an effort to better understand the Iranian public’s attitude toward their new president—and how the views of Rouhani’s supporters differ from those who opposed his election. AAI will make the poll available on Friday, December 6 during a live-streamed panel discussion on the results beginning at 10am ET. Read More »
Monday December 02, 2013
The Muslims Are Coming! - To VA This Friday
This Friday, December 6th, “The Muslims Are Coming!” to the Artisphere Theater in Rosslyn, Virginia. The film, directed by Arab American comedian Dean Obeidallah and Iranian American Negin Farsad, documents a traveling comedy tour as they perform free shows across America using the proven power of comedy to tackle Islamophobia and dispel misperceptions about Muslims. Given the troubling trend of Islamophobia we have identified over the past few years in American political discourse and law enforcement, and in the attitudes of the general American public, this film comes at an important time. Read More »
Tuesday November 26, 2013
Zogby Research Poll Shows Egyptian Attitudes Split, More Polarized than Ever
From September 16-28, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) conducted a poll on Egyptian attitudes for the Sir Bani Yas Forum in Abu Dhabi. The poll, released to the public today, is the third in a series surveying changing Egyptian attitudes toward developments as they unfold: how they view their government and institutions; areas of agreement and disagreement; and their hopes for the future. The two earlier polls in the series were released by ZRS in May 2013 before former president Mohamed Morsi’s ouster, and in late July following his removal from power by the military. ZRS’s most recent poll has opened a window, allowing us to better understand how attitudes have shifted over time. Read More »
Tuesday November 26, 2013
How to Deal with the Deal
By Isaac Levey
Legal Fellow
At about 10:15 PM Saturday night (3:15 AM Sunday morning, local time), negotiators in Geneva, Switzerland announced that the United States and other world powers had reached a deal with Iran that, for the first time, puts real limits on its nuclear program. The deal was worked out between Iran and the “P-5+1” – the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany. Considering that the U.S. and Iran started high-level negotiations only a few months ago – the first such talks since Iran seized the U.S. embassy and took American diplomats hostage in 1979 – this is a very significant development. Read More »
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From the desk of Dr. Zogby
Using and Abusing Polls
By now, I should be used to the fact that people will "cherry-pick" polls or try to "spin" results to fit their agendas. But, it still rankles. For example, I still get upset when I recall how then Vice-President Dick Cheney famously tried to find good news in the first poll Zogby International conducted in Iraq in October, 2003. Our poll findings demonstrated that even at that early date America was in real trouble with the Iraqi public. But Cheney would not accept bad news. Appearing on "Meet the Press" a few days after our poll release, he praised the "carefully done...Zogby poll" saying that there was "very positive news in it". Read More »
Viewpoint with James Zogby: Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program Fellows, Bill Press
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (October 9, 2012)
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
