Tuesday October 18, 2011
The Arab American Institute hosted Egyptian activist Ahmed Maher, founder of Egypt’s April 6 Youth Movement, in Washington, DC for a discussion about the current status of Egypt’s youth revolution entitled A Discussion with Ahmed Maher: What’s Next for Egypt. Read More »
Tuesday October 11, 2011
This weekend’s violence in Egypt is not only tragic for the victims and their families, but also has the potential of triggering wider sectarian violence, thus posing a threat to the unity of the Egyptian people in this critical time of transition. Read More »
Friday October 07, 2011
I love Iowa. Folks take politics so seriously. A great group last night at Iowa City's "Old Brick". My talk was called "The Challenges We Face". It was co-sponsored by the United Nations Association and the Arab Students at the University of Iowa. Attached is the front page headline story in The Daily Iowan "Zogby: GOP hopefuls worrisome". A good story that interviewed many in the audience. Read More »
Tuesday October 04, 2011
Tonight I had the honor to deliver an address to the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire. It was the inauguration of a four part series entitled "Primary Concerns: Critical Foreign Policy Issues at the 2012 Ballot Box" - an effort to prepare the state's voters on the issues the candidates should be raising (but probably won't) when they come through campaigning for the 2012 primary election. Pleased that the Arab World came first! Read More »
Monday October 03, 2011
Last week, Bahrain’s National Safety Court sentenced 20 doctors, nurses and paramedics to jail terms ranging from 5 to 15 years. They were simply doing their jobs – treating the protesters who had been shot & beaten by state security forces during the protests that rocked the country earlier this year, but the government insists that such actions were fundamentally political in nature and amounted to an attempt to overthrow the government. Read More »
Saturday October 01, 2011
Watch coverage of the Arab American Institute (AAI) and National Network for Arab American Communities' (NNAAC) joint three-day National Leadership Conference, September 30 - October 2, 2011, in Dearborn, Michigan. The National Leadership Conference is a quadrennial conference at which the Arab American community discusses foreign and domestic policy priorities and strategizes for the national elections. Read More »
Tuesday September 20, 2011
Tomorrow, Wednesday September 21st, is the International Day of Peace, a holiday established by the United Nations in 1981 to commemorate and strengthen the ideals of peace. It’s a good opportunity for many of us to reflect on the many wars and violent conflicts we are currently involved in, and consider the ways in which we can harness the peaceful, democratic message of the Arab Spring to advocate for an end to political violence. Read More »
Thursday September 15, 2011
Yesterday, AAI President Jim Zogby joined Geneive Adbo and Ted Piccone in a panel discussion hosted by the National Security Network (NSN) and the Project on Middle East Democracy to address the current state of political affairs in the Arab world and Iran. Pro-democracy movements in several Arab countries are causing regional dynamics with Iran to shift. These changes are raising questions about the role the United Nations and United States will play in shaping regional politics and policy, and the profound implications for the United States in the region. NSN Executive Director Heather Hurlburt moderated the panel. Read More »
Wednesday August 31, 2011
The Arab world is different, with dramatic new developments reshaping the political map of the region. Across the Middle East, Arabs have risen up demanding change. No longer satisfied with the status quo, they are holding their governments and ours accountable. As a result, America can no longer afford to ignore the aspirations of the Arab world. Read More »
Monday August 08, 2011
Despite strong international condemnation from a number of states and interstate organizations, the Syrian government has continued its assault on the Eastern towns of Hama and Deir al-Zour. However, the resistance appears to be growing increasingly organized, and reports of “Coordinating Committees” have popped up across Syria, perhaps signaling a new, more organized phase of the revolution. Read More »
Thursday July 14, 2011
The results show a dramatic drop in US favorability ratings in the region, and elicited extensive global media coverage: Read More »
Thursday June 30, 2011
Just over a year ago, a humanitarian convey of ships (“the flotilla”) headed towards Gaza to break the unlawful blockade and deliver urgently needed humanitarian assistance to the people there. Its journey was disrupted in international waters when Israel attacked it with a commando raid, leaving several Turkish activists killed, including one young American dual-citizen. Despite assiduous efforts on the part of Israel to spin the incident (confiscating all of the activists’ recording equipment and releasing selective footage of activists attacking commandos with bars and sticks), the incident caused a major uproar, and focused attention on the effects of Israel’s unconscionable blockade on Gaza. Read More »
Tuesday June 28, 2011
In a speech this morning at the Council on Foreign Relations, Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty laid out his campaign’s Middle East platform, accusing his Republican opponents of “isolationism” and attacking President Obama’s sluggish response to the Arab Spring. Promising to “speak plainly” about the “the opportunities and dangers we face in the Middle East,” Pawlenty offered a wide-ranging and often contradictory vision, sharply criticizing nearly every aspect of President Obama’s Middle East policy from his insistence on regime “engagement” to his purported policy of “blaming Israel first.” Read More »
Friday June 24, 2011
Not long ago (many of us still remember it), we had a certain degree of confidence in our ability to lead a private life. But with the technological evolution of the last few decades, most significantly the development of the internet as a primary tool of communication, any real sense of privacy now seems like a fading memory. Between the decreased costs of surveillance technology, our increased reliance on telecommunications, our common use of GPS systems, our frequent and voluntary posting of personal info, locations, and thoughts on social media, and everyone walking around with camera phones ready to capture every noteworthy moment, life is no longer as loose or anonymous as it once was. People like Anthony Weiner paid a pretty heavy price for pretending otherwise. Read More »
Friday June 10, 2011
By Ed Gaier
A recent New York Times Op-Ed by Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Ray Takeyh argues that the Middle East is headed for a post-American era. In this era, the United States would ostensible have limited ability to project its power and cajole Arab regimes to pursue policies aligned with American interests. He posits that new Arab countries in democratic transitions in the “era of self-determination” will not be as subjective to American foreign policy priorities as previous alliances of patronage have been. Read More »
Monday June 06, 2011
On Friday morning, the House of Representatives passed a resolution sponsored by House Speaker John Boehner, declaring that “the President shall not deploy, establish, or maintain the presence of units and members of the United States Armed Forces” in Libya and requesting that the President “transmit to the House of Representatives a report describing in detail United States security interests and objectives.” Read More »
Friday May 20, 2011
Arab American Institute President Jim Zogby comments on today's meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read More »
Thursday May 19, 2011
AAI President, Jim Zogby reflects on President Obama's Middle East speech in an article written in the Guardian. Read More »
Thursday May 19, 2011
The President will deliver a speech today addressing the vast political changes that have taken place in the Middle East and North Africa over the past few months. The President's address is scheduled for 11:40am and will be live streamed. Join the conversation on Face Book, Twitter @AAIUSA and the AAI website before, during and after the speech. Read More »
Wednesday May 18, 2011
I received an email the other day from a community member who is no stranger to Washington politics. Her email reinforced frustration over an issue that has been a topic of discussion here in Washington for the past three months or so: the importance of an Arab American meeting with the President to discuss the Middle East. Now more than ever, Arab Americans are in a unique position to bridge the gap between the often flawed American policy toward Arab countries and U.S. interest in the region. 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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