Friday October 05, 2012
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed the Trust Act, a proposal to prevent local California law enforcement officials from detaining suspected illegal immigrants and handing them over to federal authorities, except in cases where they have been arrested on suspicion of committing a serious or violent crime. Read More »
Friday October 05, 2012
The range of the debate on U.S. policy toward Iran has been focused on whether the U.S. should join Israel in making military threats, or whether the debilitating sanctions the U.S. has placed on Iran suffice. Rarely, however, does anyone suggest that we use carrots instead of sticks to try to induce a better response from Iranian leaders. MJ Rosenberg makes precisely that argument. Read More »
Friday October 05, 2012
By Vieshnavi Rattehalli
Hosted by the Arab American Republicans of Washington, D.C. and the Arab American Democratic Caucus of Virginia, the 24th Annual Virginia Candidates’ Night Dinner took place this past Sunday, September 30th, at the Tysons Corner Marriot in Virginia. Read More »
Thursday October 04, 2012
By Vieshnavi Rattehalli
Every state participating in the Arab Awakening or the Arab Spring will follow its own unique path to a more representative society that hopefully incorporates the wishes and needs of its people. Yet in all of these states, there is one group that may continue to be marginalized: women. Read More »
Thursday October 04, 2012
Last night’s presidential debate focused on a wide range of important political issues, and displayed many of the significant differences – and similarities – between the two candidates. However, the issues ignored by the debate were equally illustrative. Read More »
Thursday October 04, 2012
In mid-September, AAI President Jim Zogby traveled to the United Arab Emirates to present the findings of a poll conducted by JZ Analytics in five non-Arab Muslim countries, surveying attitudes toward the Arab world. Read More »
Wednesday October 03, 2012
Tonight Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama will face off for the first of three presidential debates. Tonight’s debate will take place at the University of Denver and will air at 9:00 PM EDT. The debate will be moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS Newshour and will focus on domestic policy. Here are some of the key stories to watch for in tonight’s debate. Read More »
Wednesday October 03, 2012
By Jennine Vari
Women were equally responsible as men for the changes that have taken place since 2011, and female activists and politicians continue to fight for the political and social equality they earned while working to topple dictatorships throughout the Arab World. Read More »
Tuesday October 02, 2012
Judge Robert Simpson has blocked enforcement of a key portion of Pennsylvania’s voter-ID law. Agreeing that the state is unlikely to issue the necessary number of IDs before the election, Simpson’s ruling means that the photo ID requirement won’t be in effect for the Nov. 6 election, but it may be in effect for future elections. Read More »
Friday September 28, 2012
AAI is continuously tracking key congressional races across the country. One trend AAI is tracking closely is whether or not the electoral tide will turn against candidates who espouse hate speech and Islamophobia. With just over a month until the election, it appears as though many of Congress’s most notorious Islamophobes stand a good chance of losing their seats and that several challengers who have turned to bigoted rhetoric are unlikely to be elected. Read More »
Friday September 28, 2012
By Emily Jabareen
Watch out, “the Muslims are coming!” The intriguing and slightly sarcastic title of a new reality TV-style documentary humorously captures the hyperbolic and much overblown antagonism lately demonstrated against Muslims in US political discourse. Read More »
Friday September 28, 2012
As part of the Smithsonian Institution’s eighth annual Museum Day Live! Event, the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn will be offering free admission tomorrow. Read More »
Friday September 28, 2012
AAI President Jim Zogby joined CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Kate Bolduan in the Situation Room last night to discuss a wide range of Middle East foreign policy issues as well as AAI’s recent poll on the Arab American vote in 2012. Dr. Zogby was joined by Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. While AAI’s poll shows that jobs and the economy rate as the two most important issues concerning Arab Americans this election cycle, foreign policy is also among the top issues. Read More »
Friday September 28, 2012
There is an alternative explanation for the public’s ready acceptance of torture and assassination that Zegart was too quick to dismiss. Obama has, with the notable exception of torture, kept almost all of George W. Bush’s national security infrastructure intact, and has even escalated a number of its components. Read More »
Thursday September 27, 2012
While many political speeches can be contradicted by unmentioned facts, Netanyahu’s was one of those rare speeches that actively contradict themselves in the course of making their central argument. Read More »
Thursday September 27, 2012
Today at a press conference in DC, AAI released its poll on how Arab Americans plan to vote in the upcoming November election. AAI president Jim Zogby explained the poll’s key findings and insights into the likely voting behavior of Arab Americans this election cycle. He then took questions from reporters as well as from viewers on AAI’s Livestream channel. Read More »
Wednesday September 26, 2012
Today brought the news that President Abbas met with Dershowitz, and other Jewish community leaders, to discuss his pending speech before the UNGA and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Read More »
Wednesday September 26, 2012
The Bronx District Attorney’s Office has dealt a blow to the city’s Stop-and-Frisk law. The New York Times reports that the District Attorney’s Office will no longer prosecute individuals arrested for trespassing at public housing complexes unless they are able to interview the arresting officer and confirm that the arrest was warranted. Read More »
Wednesday September 26, 2012
The New Jersey ACLU has released a free iPhone app that allows citizens to record their interactions with police. “Police Tape,” which runs off the iOS operating system on iPhones and iPads, disappears from the screen once it starts recording. Read More »
Wednesday September 26, 2012
In just the latest twist in what’s turning into a virtual immigration roller coaster, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused yesterday a request to suspend Arizona’s now-infamous SB1070 law—the one “hearted” by Congressional candidate Gabriela Saucedo Mercer. Read More »
#NC lawmaker equates Islamic prayer w/ terror http://t.co/G9sp1NeLC1 @mostrolenk @aaiusa h/t @ozzyformayor
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Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
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RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
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Looking at Iran by James Zogby
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 16, 2013President Obama got it just about perfect in his Jerusalem speech when he urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians. That portion of his remarks was so compelling it deserves to be quoted in full: Read More »
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 »
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 »
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