It was one hundred years ago, that my father's oldest brother crossed a continent and an ocean to come to America. Habib Rashid Zogby, fourteen at the time, made the long trip with his uncle, leaving his mother, father and six siblings in Lebanon. Read More »
Air Date: 12/30/2010 Marwan Muasher, former Jordanian Ambassador to Israel, Author and Senior Vice President of External Affairs at the World Bank; Joost Hiltermann, Deputy Program director for the International Crisis Group. Read More »
The Christmas story as it is told in the West, in scripture and tradition, contains timeless elements that have shaped our culture in significant ways. As we tell it, year in and year out, the story conveys to those who listen powerful themes evoking deep feelings. Read More »
Air Date: 12/23/2010 Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations; M.J. Rosenberg, Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network; Joost Hiltermann, Iraq analyst for the International Crisis Group (ICG). Read More »
Back in the early 1990's, at the end of Lebanon's civil war, together with a few other Arab American organizations, we requested and secured a meeting with then Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to discuss both the situation in Lebanon and some unhelpful positions taken by the Senate that we felt might adversely impact the still troubled situation in that country. Read More »
(Air Date: 12/16/2010) John Esposito, professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies and founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University; Amjad Atallah, Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation; Jordan Eizenga, Policy Analyst with the Economic Policy team at the Center for American Progress Read More »
Lebanon and its friends around the world are on edge waiting for indictments to be issued related to the assassination of Prime Minister Rafiq al Hariri. The investigators working on this case are apparently nearing the completion of their inquiry and are preparing to submit their findings to the International Tribunal—possibly within a matter of days. Read More »
Michael German, Former FBI Agent, and current Policy Counsel on National Security, Immigration and Privacy at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); Amal Mudallali, Adviser to Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri; Geneive Abdo, Fellow and Director of the Iran program at the Century Foundation and editor of insideIRAN.org Read More »
Edward Walker, Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt and the UAE; Ellen Laipson, CEO, Henry L. Stimson Center; David Frum, former special assistant to president George W. Bush, Author, and Editor of FrumForum Read More »
From the day the first batch of Wikileaks appeared in the international press, the Israelis were crowing "this is good for us". Seizing on documents demonstrating that some Arab leaders bear ill-will toward Iran, the Israeli spin machine went into action. Read More »
Qubad Talabani, Kurdistan Regional Government representative in the United States; Ori Nir, spokesman for the newspaper Peace Daily and for Americans for Peace Now; Christopher Boucek, an associate in the Carnegie Endowment Middle East program; Christopher Calabrese, legislative council for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Read More »
As I have read press reports of the U.S. offering massive incentives to Israel in an effort to secure a three month settlement freeze, I've wanted to give the U.S. peace negotiators the benefit of the doubt. On too many levels, however, I'm having trouble understanding the logic behind all of this. Read More »
As I have been traveling around the U.S. discussing my new book Arab Voices, attempting to shatter the myths that many Americans have about Arabs, I frequently get the question, "but do Arabs understand us?". Read More »
Air Date: 11/18/2010 Viewpoint with James Zogby: Prince Turki al-Faisal, former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Britain and Ireland, former director of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service and current chairman of the Faisal center; Arab American Comedian, Dean Obeidallah Read More »
Israel's announcement, last week, of a radical expansion of Har Homa (an already massive settlement community between Jerusalem and Bethlehem) makes a mockery of the so-called "peace process". Read More »
Air Date: 11/2/2010 Viewpoint with James Zogby: Walter Andersen Ph.D., Associate Director of the South Asia Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University; Matthew P. Hoh, former Marine Corps. Captain, State Department appointee and current Director of the Afghanistan Study Group; Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations for Americans for Peace Now; Max Fisher, foreign affairs and national security writer for the Atlantic Read More »
With Republicans now in control of the House of Representatives, President Obama's efforts to achieve Middle East peace and repair frayed relationships across this region have become more difficult. Read More »
Air Date: 11/4/2010 Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, PLO Executive Committee member; Matthew Duss, National Security Researcher/Blogger at the Center for American Progress. Read More »
The partisan divide on issues related to Arabs and Muslims has become disturbingly wide. For example, when, in a recent poll, we asked American voters whether they had favorable or unfavorable attitudes toward Arabs and Muslims, the results were shocking. Read More »
After decades spent trying to better explain the Arab World to other Americans, all too often I have found myself running up against the same mythologies and half-truths that, year after year, stubbornly maintain an alarming ability to shape thinking about the region. Read More »
What Comes First: #Media Impact or Influence? discussed on @aaiusa blog #Arab American Institute http://t.co/CiGquFfO @ramahkudaimi @ramisms
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#Assad gives interview to Russian channel, warns other countries that "sow chaos" in #Syria could suffer same fate: http://t.co/0m0whyNt
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Have truer words ever been spoken? “What’s important is the policy, not the tourism" -- http://t.co/y7LTODbT #Countdown #Israel #Romney
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Be Part of the Change!Benjamin Netanyahu, ever the master maneuverer, has done it again. Just moments before the Israeli Parliament was to ratify the call for new elections, the Kadima Party announced that it had completed negotiations with the Prime Minister and would join the government producing Israel's largest governing coalition in history (including 94 of 120 Members of the Knesset). The announcement sent shockwaves throughout the region and here in the US. Speculation was rife about what this sudden move might mean. Read More »
Barbara Slavin, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and correspondent for Al-Monitor; Ron Kampeas, Washington Bureau Chief for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), Shane D'Aprile, editor of Campaigns & Elections. Read More »
The subcommittee's meeting today to explore whether there are risk factors or preincident indicators of terrorist activity identified by intelligence and law enforcement organizations to enable them in thwarting attacks while preserving -- let me repeat that -- preserving individuals' right to privacy and civil liberties. Read More »
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