Several sad parallels can be found in the bumbling way Washington dealt with raising the debt ceiling and averting financial catastrophe, and the U.S.'s overall handling of the search for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Read More »
Critics' reactions to polling results can sometimes be as interesting and disturbing as the results themselves. During the month of July, we released the findings of a six nation survey of Arab public opinion on topics ranging from the standing of the U.S. two years after President Obama's celebrated Cairo University speech, to evolving Arab attitudes toward Iran, and the expectations created by the "Arab Spring". Read More »
Iran's favorable ratings are in a "freefall" across the Arab World, with Iran's behavior in Iraq, Bahrain, and the Arab Gulf region being viewed negatively by most Arabs. These are a few of the key findings of an Arab American Institute poll conducted by Zogby International during the first three weeks of June, 2011. The poll surveyed over 4,000 Arabs from Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, and has a margin of error of 3.5% (in Morocco, Egypt and Saudi Arabia) and 4.5% (in Lebanon, Jordan, and UAE). Read More »
Air Date: 7/28/2011
Hannah Rosenthal, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, U.S. Department of State; Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Geneive Abdo, Fellow and Iran analyst at The Century Foundation. Read More »
In July of 2002 I was in Damascus, Syria, having been invited by the U.S. Embassy to deliver an address at the University. I was delighted that the auditorium was full, but a touch nervous since I had chosen to speak on the challenges facing the country. Read More »
Radwan Ziadeh, Director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies and visiting scholar at the George Washington University; Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations at Americans for Peace Now; Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Read More »
Air Date: 7/14/2011
Maen Areikat, PLO Chief Representative to the U.S.; Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor, University of Maryland Read More »
A few months back I had a quick exchange with President Obama about the U.S. standing in the Arab World. When I mentioned that we would be conducting a poll to assess Arab attitudes two years after his Cairo speech, he responded that he expected that the ratings would be quite low and would remain low until the U.S. could help find a way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read More »
On the very day that The New York Times reported that the Israeli military had demolished the homes of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley in order to clear the area to consolidate Israeli control, that very same military was being rebuffed in its efforts to remove an illegal Jewish settler outpost in that very same occupied West Bank. Read More »
Air Date: 7/7/2011
Jeremy Ben-Ami, President, J Street; George Cody, Executive Director, American Task Force for Lebanon; Dan Friedman, Staff Writer, National Journal Read More »
When it comes to issues involving Israel, politicians in Washington can become quite hysterical, making the dumbest remarks or doing the most illogical things. Evidence of such bizarre behavior abounds, and this week provided several examples. Read More »
Father Emil Salayta, head of the Tribunal Court of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Co-founder of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation; Lavinia Limon, Former President and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), discusses refugee issues in the Middle East; Aaron Blake National Politics Reporter at the Washington Post discusses developments related to the current GOP presidential field. Read More »
Air Date: 6/23/2011
Mona Yacoubian, Special Adviser, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention and Director of the Lebanon Working Group at the United States Institute for Peace; Mike German, Policy Counsel on National Security, Immigration and Privacy at the American Civil Liberties Union. Read More »
Back in 2009, when President Obama announced his political compromise plan for a "surge" in Afghanistan there were complaints from both "hawks" and "doves" alike. And so it came as no surprise that he would hear the same complaints this week as he announced the "beginning of the end" of the "surge". Read More »
The contest has begun to determine who will be the Republican candidate to square off against President Obama in 2012 national elections. For months now, individuals have been announcing either their intention to run or to form what are called "exploratory committees" to determine whether or not they should run. Read More »
Bulent Aliriza, Senior Associate and Director, Turkey Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Moeed Yusuf, South Asia Adviser at the U.S. Institute of Peace; Shane D'Aprile, Editor, Campaigns & Elections. Read More »
Air Date: 6/9/2011
Daniel Levy, Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation; Chris Boucek, Associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Nuh Yilmaz, Director of the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA). Read More »
This week a bit of controversy erupted in Washington when it was announced that the performance of Malek Jandali, a Syrian musician, had been dropped from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's (ADC) annual convention. It appears that Jandali had insisted on including "Watani Ana", a song about freedom, in his repertoire—and that some leaders at ADC had been equally insistent that the song be dropped. With no meeting of the minds, Jandali was dropped from the program. Read More »
I am writing from the Middle East where I am catching an earful about last month's dueling speeches between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. To say that majorities here express deep disappointment in American leadership would not be accurate. They were already disappointed, now most have given up. Read More »
Air Date: 6/2/2011
John Zogby, Chairman and Chief Insights Officer at IBOPE Zogby International; Theodore Kattouf, President of AMIDEAST; Marwan Muasher, Vice President for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Read More »
@AAIUSA BUT there is the issue of #delegates. For the constant #default candidate, #Romney nothing changes, #politically. #Rick!
about 8 hours, 6 minutes ago.
shouldn't be surprised by #Santorum sweep. Don't ever underestimated the strength of #GOP's "anybody but #Mitt" - Rick is new/old "anybody"
about 9 hours, 47 minutes ago.
@AAIUSA Be sure to follow Corey Stapleton’s campaign @stapletonCorey for an exclusive announcement today.
about 15 hours, 44 minutes ago.
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 18
Be Part of the Change!If we are to believe what we are hearing and reading from a variety of confirmed and unconfirmed sources, in Israel and the U.S., some day in the next few months we may wake up to the news that Israel has bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. Or maybe not. Read More »
Air Date: 12/29/2011
Rob Malley, Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group; Amb. Hussein Hassouna, Chief Representative of the League of Arab States to the United States; Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations for Americans for Peace Now. 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 »
