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Tuesday February 14, 2012
Today marks the one year anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain, a conflict that in many ways encapsulates the myriad difficulties of the so-called Arab Spring. Read More »
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Thursday February 09, 2012
For the first time in two decades, U.S. opinion toward Egypt is in sharp decline with an overall favorability of 33%, according to a poll released by the Arab American Institute today. In July 2011, AAI polling showed 5% of Egyptians held a favorable view of the U.S. The poll released today was conducted by JZ Analytics for NYU Abu Dhabi in January 2012, and surveyed 997 Americans nationwide. Key findings include: Read More »
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Monday January 30, 2012
By Jeffrey Wright
An uprising that began as a conflict between peaceful protesters and violent state security forces is increasingly becoming a conflict between armed groups. Read More »
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Wednesday January 25, 2012
Next Tuesday, January 31, AAI will be hosting a congressional briefing on Egypt: One Year after the Revolution, featuring Ashraf Khalil and Dr. Jim Zogby. Read More »
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Monday January 23, 2012
Though large-scale protests did not erupt in Syria until the March 15 uprising in Daraa, January 26 will be the one-year anniversary of the first Syrian demonstration. The mass movement to oust Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad has been fraught with complications, but despite an unimaginably brutal response by the Syrian government, the protests continue unabated. Read More »
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Wednesday January 11, 2012
Last year, AAI President Jim Zogby's book on the Arab world, Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why It Matters, was released to major acclaim and brisk sales. This month, Arab Voices came out in paperback with a new section on the Arab Spring. The book, and the polling it is based on, have proved invaluable to many analysts and policy makers as they try to better understand the changes taking place in the region. Read More »
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Thursday January 05, 2012
The Middle East Policy Council held its 67th Capitol Hill Conference today at the Rayburn House Office Building. The focus of the conference was “Israel, Turkey & Iran in the Changing Arab World.” The event included a distinguished panel of speakers: Robert Malley of the International Crisis Group, Karim Sadjapour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Omer Taspinar of the Brookings Institution. Read More »
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Thursday December 29, 2011
Americans for Peace Now has a great list of the “Top 10 Wackiest Congressional Actions on the Middle East of 2011,” in a year where they had a pretty wide pool to choose from. We’ve covered a lot of these stories before, but this list does a great job of highlighting just how out of sync Congress can sometimes be when it comes to Middle East issues. Read More »
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Friday December 23, 2011
This morning, we heard the tragic news of twin suicide bombings in Damascus that killed at least 40 people and injured over a hundred, amid ever more valid fears that Syria is probably sliding towards civil war. Meanwhile in Egypt, footage emergedof the brutal beating and shooting of protesters, and one woman suffered a very serious head injury from repeated clubbing by the army’s anti-riot force. In Iraq, a dozen coordinated bombings killed at least 60 people and injured over 200. Could anyone have imagined this climate was less than a year away from the euphoria following Mubarak’s ouster? Read More »
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Tuesday December 20, 2011
On the one-year anniversary of the Arab Spring, AAI hosted a roundtable discussion with Syrian democracy activist Rami Nakhle, Al Jazeera’s “The Stream” co-host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a select group of journalism and communications students from all across Egypt, and Arab American students and activists. The purpose of the discussion was to connect agents of change from the Arab World with Arab American activists to exchange experiences and learn how best we can bring change about here at home. Read More »
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Tuesday December 20, 2011
Yesterday, the Arab American Institute, in a formal request to the Obama administration, asked for Temporary Protected Status privileges to be extended to Syrian citizens currently residing in the United States. Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a procedure by which the Secretary of Homeland Security may provide temporary asylum to individuals who are in America and who cannot safely return to their home countries. Read More »
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Monday December 19, 2011
Today, the Arab American Institute released two polls on Arab public opinion regarding the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Arab political concerns in a post-Arab Spring Middle East. Among the countries surveyed were Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iran. On the U.S. withdrawl from Iraq, respondents were asked (among other things) to weigh in on the state of the country today, and consequences of the war for the future. Read More »
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Wednesday November 23, 2011
The Arab Spring has experienced dramatic developments over the past few days which are worth highlighting: Read More »
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Thursday November 17, 2011
AAI President Jim Zogby and Executive Director Maya Berry, along with a number of Arab American leaders, participated in the “Tunisia Partnerships Forum" earlier this week at the U.S. Department of State. Jim and Maya joined diaspora leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and business people from across the U.S. and Tunisia to discuss efforts to promote democracy and economic development in Tunisia. Read More »
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Thursday November 10, 2011
Several months ago, we praised Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels for remaining principled and not pandering to anti-Muslim sentiment. At the time, unapologetic Islamophobia seemed like an accepted element of the mainstream Republican platform. We called Governor Daniels the “adult in the room” for his leadership. Today, similar praise is due for a candidate who has taken a principled stance on another issue of importance to the Arab American community. Read More »
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Wednesday November 02, 2011
Whatever abuses take place in the midst of armed conflict tell us less about the culture of the perpetrators and more about the culture of war, especially when we see these very same abuses replicated in other conflicts across the world. Read More »
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Wednesday October 26, 2011
Somehow, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney thinks President Obama is to blame for an “out of control” Arab Spring. Speaking in front of the State House in Concord, New Hampshire on Monday, Romney indicated that the White House should have been able to foresee the events of the Arab Spring before they happened. He went on to say: Read More »
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Tuesday October 25, 2011
This morning, AAI released a new poll on Arab attitudes towards Syria, comprised of data from six Arab nations and over four thousand respondents. AAI President Jim Zogby began the release by recalling a 2008 poll AAI had conducted in the Arab world for the BBC. The data from this 2008 poll reveals that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was among the most highly respected and widely supported leaders in the Arab World. Now, a mere three years later, new AAI polling data shows Bashar to be virtually isolated in the Arab world. Read More »
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Monday October 24, 2011
Dr. Jim Zogby speaks about the Arab Spring at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, with fellow panelists Robin Wright and Austin Bay. Read More »
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Friday October 21, 2011
Ahmed Maher, a founder of Egypt’s April 6th Movement, visited the Arab American Institute on Tuesday, April 18th to speak and answer questions about the next steps for the Movement and Egypt’s future. Read More »
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