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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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by James J. Zogby This has been a week of horrors in Palestine. On Monday, 63 mostly young Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli snipers. Another 2,700 were injured, mostly by live fire or tear gas. Adding insult to this injury, on the same day, the US opened its Embassy...
by James J. Zogby This year will mark the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish regions, and the anniversary of the first Middle East War of 1948. In the West, these are commemorated as the events which paved the way for the founding...
Washington Watch: What is Facebook Trying to Do?
by James J. Zogby This week, Facebook made a rather strange and disturbing set of announcements. In response to concerns raised by several civil rights organizations—including my own, the Arab American Institute—about hate groups using their platform to harass and at times, to threaten Black, Muslim, Arab, and other minority...
Washington Watch: Celebrating Service to Others
by James J. Zogby This week, the Arab American Institute held its 20th Kahlil Gibran "Spirit of Humanity" Awards Gala. This annual event provides an opportunity for Arab Americans to recognize organizations, leaders and activists from around the world for their service to humanity. During the past two decades, the...
