Friday January 25, 2013
Today’s appointment of Denis McDonough, the President's Deputy National Security Adviser, to the post of Chief of Staff highlights yet again the President's goal of filling the most important positions in his administration with trusted friends who have national security backgrounds. During today’s press conference, the president lauded McDonough’s experience working across the aisle to tackle some of the administration's top priorities, including gun control, immigration, and the budget. Read More »
Friday January 25, 2013
All eyes have been on Algeria as the hostage crisis unfolded last week at a remote BP gas facility in Algeria’s southern town of In Aménas, leaving at least 37 hostages dead, including 3 Americans. Read More »
Friday January 25, 2013
Sen. Johnson got a heated response from Secretary Clinton when he asked about UN Ambassador Susan Rice “purposefully misleading the American public” on what happened in Benghazi. He continued to push, asking why a phone call wasn’t made to people on the ground after the attack to ascertain whether or not the attack was the result of a protest or a planned terrorist assault. Read More »
Wednesday January 23, 2013
On Capitol Hill today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared in front of Senate and House committees to defend her handling of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya last September. Read More »
Wednesday January 23, 2013
In the past week there have been some great articles about the misleading torture narrative in Zero Dark Thirty, the popular movie chronicling the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. Read More »
Tuesday January 22, 2013
By Jennine Vari
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus urged governors and state legislators to consider Electoral College reform, by allocating electoral votes by congressional district as opposed to the winner-take-all system. Read More »
Friday January 18, 2013
This weekend in Washington is jammed-packed with events, and the Arab American community is participating in all of it. From volunteering during a national day of service, to attending the Inaugural Ball and official swearing-in ceremony Monday, Arab Americans are right at the center of all the action. Following inauguration weekend, AAI will get straight back to work, attending a White House meeting to discuss our community and support for national immigration reform. Here are a couple things we’re doing this weekend; we’ll update you on them over the next few days. Make sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook for updates and photos. Read More »
Friday January 18, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
Throughout the movie, the illusion of protection for Burnat behind the lens vanishes as soldiers first threaten him with violence, then attack him. The two directors, however, realize that it is the truth which will free and empower the young and old, and perhaps prevent the continuing alienation between the two populations from a young age forward through the development of meaningful contact. Read More »
Wednesday January 16, 2013
The selection of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense has been significantly more controversial than that of John Brennan, a man who is associated with several of the nation’s troubling and controversial counterterrorism policies, and who has repeatedly provided legal justification for the use of torture on suspects, deeming it “an absolutely vital tool.” Read More »
Tuesday January 15, 2013
Last week, a group of Palestinians erected a “tent village” on Israeli-occupied land that had been seized for Jewish settlement construction. They named the city Bab Al Shams, after the powerful novel Gate of the Sun by Lebanese writer Elias Khoury. The book tells the story of the Palestinian struggle through the eyes of an aging freedom fighter, his relationship with his wife, and his forced exile from his home. Read More »
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 »
Thursday January 10, 2013
After years of trying to break into the American market, the Qatari-based network Al Jazeera has bought the US channel Current TV, with plans to launch Al Jazeera America. Read More »
Monday January 07, 2013
Today’s big news in Washington is the announcement of President Obama’s nominations for two key foreign policy posts: former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel has been tapped to be the next Secretary of Defense and current Deputy National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism John Brennan will leave the White House to serve as director of the CIA. Both men must be confirmed by the Senate in hearings expected to begin later this month. Though both of these nominations are important in their own right, they also provide a window into the evolving foreign policy outlook of the Obama Administration. The results are decidedly mixed. Read More »
Monday January 07, 2013
Arab Americans aren’t the only ones celebrating the appointment of Johnny Khamis as the first-ever Arab American City Council member representing the 10th district of the city of San Jose, California. Khamis’s swearing-in ceremony, which was led yesterday by San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, received prominent attention from the local San Jose news site, MercuryNews.com which lauded the newly-elected Republican for, among other things, helping San Jose to reach yet “another milestone in the growing diversity of the Bay Area's largest city.” Read More »
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 »
Wednesday December 19, 2012
The Arab American Institute and the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force invite you to the launch of a critical public opinion survey on what Palestinians and Israelis want in a peace deal and their thoughts about the prospects for achieving it. Read More »
Friday December 14, 2012
On its last day in session, the Michigan Legislature will not be voting on an “anti-Sharia” law. While it is troubling that we continue to deal with these initiatives (spearheaded by David Yerushalmi, co-founder of the American Freedom Law Center and “the man behind the anti-Sharia movement”), it is good news that the bill didn't make it to the floor. Read More »
Friday December 14, 2012
The bill in its current form not only discriminates on the application of the Due Process Clause afforded to immigrant communities but also makes it exceedingly difficult for the President to live up to his promise of once and for all closing the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center. Read More »
Friday December 14, 2012
Press Release: During the month of September 2012, Zogby Research Services conducted a comprehensive, unprecedented survey of Israeli Jews and Arabs; Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem; Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan; and the American Jewish community. The survey was conducted for the Sir Bani Yas Forum, a joint effort between the UAE and Chatham House. Read More »
Thursday December 13, 2012
Although DHS's 287(g) program has proven to result in racial profiling, the agency is looking to expand the program to new jurisdictions instead of ending it. 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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