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“Viewpoint with James Zogby” is a weekly TV interview program on politics and foreign policy, featuring in-depth discussions of current events and topics that matter to the Arab American community. The program ran for several years as "A Capital View" on the Arab Network of America (ANA) before moving to Abu Dhabi Television, where it enjoyed a global audience. Presently, the program is produced in partnership with New York University and taped at NYU’s Constance Milstein & Family Academic Center in Washington DC. The show has won an award at the Cairo Radio/Television Festival.
Dr. James J. Zogby is President and Co-Founder of the Arab American Institute in Washington, DC. His weekly column, “Washington Watch,” is published in 16 countries, and he frequently appears on national and international media as an expert guest on the Arab American community and Middle East affairs. He has authored several books, including the highly-acclaimed 2010 book, “Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us, and Why it Matters,” and conducts extensive polling across the Middle East with Zogby Research Services.
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Washington Watch: The Challenge to Restore Our Sanity
by James J. Zogby Despite the fact that the stock market is at record highs and the unemployment rate, which began its substantial decline during the Obama Administration, is now at record lows, we spend our days haunted by the gnawing sense that life has spun out of control. In...
Washington Watch: The Transformation of Jerusalem
by James J. Zogby Last week a group of Likud members and experts presented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan to carve up Arab Jerusalem in somewhat the same way that Hebron was dismembered. Some saw news of this effort as a positive sign that the Netanyahu government...
Washington Watch: Apartheid in Hebron
by James J. Zogby Last week Israel announced that the heart of Hebron would henceforth be a separate municipality directly governed by Israel's Civil Administration. There are about 700 extremist Israeli settlers currently living in a few compounds in the center of the city protected by the Israeli military. While...
Washington Watch: The Importance of Civil Discourse
by James J. Zogby Last week I became the Chair of The Sanders Institute (TSI), an initiative that grew out of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign of 2016. While as a sitting senator, Sanders cannot be involved in the work of TSI, we are committed to elevating the issues on...
