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Thursday January 31, 2013
Today, Senator Chuck Hagel undergoes a nomination hearing held by the Senate Armed services Committee. Though Hagel is expected to ultimately be confirmed, he is sure to face some opposition in the form of verbal grilling from Republicans and Democrats alike, especially with regard to his views on Israel, Iran, and defense spending cuts.
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Friday January 11, 2013
One of the silver linings of the incoming 113th Congress was that Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the controversial chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, had reached the term limit of her position and would be stepping down from the chairmanship. Unfortunately, The Hill revealed this week that Ros-Lehtinen has been appointed to serve as the chair of the committee’s Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee. Read More »
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Thursday December 20, 2012
All eyes are on the North African states of Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt as each country struggles to form a stable democratic government. But amid the chaos, Washington is looking to strengthen pre-existing ties in the region with countries whose governments have survived the Arab Spring. Read More »
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Thursday November 08, 2012
Even though Obama’s re-election is a small victory for advocates of civil liberties and global peace, these ideals are far from assured. What we won yesterday is little more than the possibility of future success, the hope that cool heads in the second Obama administration will be able and willing to see past the mistakes of the first. Read More »
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Thursday October 11, 2012
In almost all of these issues, including Israel/Palestine, Iraq & Afghanistan, and the approach to Libya and Syria, Romney’s stated goals are near-indistinguishable from Obama’s, many of which are continuations of Bush-era foreign policy priorities, with one central difference. Read More »
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Thursday October 11, 2012
Any of these individuals at the helm of Romney’s foreign policy agenda could herald a deeply dangerous return to failed policies that have already engendered distrust, disenchantment, and radicalization across the Arab world. Read More »
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Friday October 05, 2012
A group of members of Congress from both chambers have drafted a letter to Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the King of Bahrain, calling for the pardon and release of doctors imprisoned during the uprising that rocked the country last year. Read More »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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Monday September 10, 2012
Earlier today, AAI President Jim Zogby joined a panel of experts at the Wilson Center to discuss the results of a new public opinion survey on the role of the United States in a post-9/11 world. The event was introduced by The Honorable Jane Harman, Director, President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center; and the speakers included Chicago Council on Global Affairs President Marshall Bouton, former CIA Director General Michael Hayden, and New America Foundation Senior Fellow Philip Mudd. Read More »
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Monday August 13, 2012
On Saturday, August 11, AAI hosted a town hall in Chicago to discuss the latest developments in Syria, the evolving US government response, and the role of the Arab American community in helping Syria move forward. Read More »
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Friday August 03, 2012
As the bloodshed continues in Syria, mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has not been seen in public since the bombing that killed several key members of his inner circle. The only “personal” communication we’ve seen from Assad was a message he sent on Wednesday to his troops noting that “The fate of our people and our nation, past, present and future, depends on this battle.” Read More »
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Wednesday August 01, 2012
By Nama Khalil
In a recent interview with Israel Hayom, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claimed that the Arab Spring might never have happened had George W. Bush's "freedom agenda" not been prematurely halted by President Barack Obama. Read More »
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Friday July 27, 2012
By Johara Hall
Over 1,200 young people from across the country gathered at the Marriott Wardman Park in Woodley Park to attend the 8th annual Campus Progress National Conference. The event was organized by Campus Progress, a national organization that through youth programs in activism and journalism works to promote progressive change to key political and social concerns. Read More »
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Thursday July 26, 2012
In a series of interviews with Newsmax TV, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski weighs in on a number of important US foreign policy entanglements, including the Iraq War, the War on Terror, the conflict with Iran, and US intervention in Syria. Read More »
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Wednesday July 25, 2012
By Nama Khalil
During the democratic uprisings that began in the Arab world in 2011, the entire world has focused on Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and now Syria. On February 16, Bahrainis participated in what the Qatar-based television station Al Jazeera has called a “secret revolution,” one that was “abandoned by Arabs, forsaken by West and forgotten by the world.” Read More »
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Friday July 13, 2012
By Sara Jawhari
22 year-old Sarah Burshan stands in the doorway of a conference room-turned polling station in a Holiday Inn in the suburbs of Washington DC. The astonishment in her eyes is visible as she is witnessing something she never in her wildest dreams expected to be alive for: an unprecedented democratic election that will appoint 200 people into Libya’s first General National Congress. Read More »
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Monday June 11, 2012
Since the Arab Uprisings of last year, it’s been hard to keep up with the rapid developments enveloping Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Palestine, and practically every other Arab state. In the midst of all this change, however, last week marked the anniversaries of several key moments in Arab history, and we should take the time to reflect on the residual effects of these pivotal events on the current state of the region. Read More »
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Friday June 01, 2012
When President Obama first came into office he promised this country that some fundamental and drastic changes would take place. He also promised the same scope of change in his Cairo speech to Arabs and Muslims across the globe, and because of the unprecedented gesture, people believed him. Today Arabs and Muslims, especially those in the Middle East, are still waiting for that fundamental change to come. Read More »
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