Air Date: 11/3/2011
Colin Kahl, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East; Nabil Shaath, Senior Palestinian Negotiator discusses the admission of Palestine to UNESCO; Glenn Kessler, Author,” Fact Checker” Column at The Washington Post Read More »
Several months back, when the Arab League suspended Libya's membership and passed a resolution supporting a "no-fly zone" over the country; it appeared to be a one-off affair. Muammar Qadhafi had worked hard, for decades, to make himself a regional pariah. His bizarre behavior, his reign of terror, and his absurd policy pronouncements had long outraged and embarrassed many across the Arab World. Read More »
Air Date: 10/27/2011
Marwan Muasher, Vice President for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Michael Isikoff, National Investigative Correspondent at NBC News. Read More »
In 1981, my brother, John Zogby, ran for Mayor of Utica, New York. Like other factory towns across New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-Western states, Utica was in decline. The factories that had employed tens of thousands had closed and gone south. With the loss of these jobs, the city was in the beginning of a steep decline. Read More »
Air Date: 10/20/2011
Chas Freeman, Chairman of Projects International; Frank Sharry, Founder and Executive Director, America’s Voice; Ahmed Maher, Co-Founder, April 6 Youth Movement Read More »
This Presidential election is beginning to look a lot like the contest of 1996, which saw a battered Bill Clinton win a second term in office by defeating Republican Senator Bob Dole. There are differences, to be sure, but the similarities are striking. Read More »
Air Date: 10/13/2011
Aaron Snipe, Spokesperson, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ausama Monajed & Dima Moussa Founding Members Syrian National Council; Shane D’Aprile, Editor, Campaigns & Elections
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Having spent time this week in both New Hampshire and Iowa, the states featuring the first presidential nominating contests of 2012, and having been in Michigan the week before, I am getting the feeling that this has all the makings of a very strange election. Foremost among the reasons for this is the fact that the country is in a deep funk. The numbers tell it all. Read More »
Air Date: 10/6/2011
Naif Al-Mutawa, Creator of “the 99”; George Cody, Director of the American Task Force for Lebanon; Michael German, Policy Counsel on National Security, Immigration and Privacy at the American Civil Liberties Union. Read More »
Maen Areikat, PLO Chief Representative to the U.S.; Raji Sourani, Director, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; Barbara Bodine, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Yemen (1997-2001); Robert Borosage, Founder and President of the Institute for America's Future Read More »
Back when I was in Catholic elementary school and in the Boy Scouts, we would often be enlisted to participate in fund-raising drives that had us going door-to-door in our neighborhoods collecting money for various charities or causes (school or church related projects, scouting trips, etc). Engaging in this exercise, year after year, taught us some lessons about human behavior. Read More »
Air Date: 9/22/2011
Arab American comedians, Dean Obeidallah and Aron Kader, discuss their latest comedy tour “Arabs Gone Wild”; Bill Press, political commentator and host of the “Bill Press Show.” Read More »
This was a disturbing and dangerous week at the United Nations. After all the drama leading up to this session of the General Assembly, we come away with three troubling facts clearly established: the Palestinians, despite a valiant effort, are no closer to a state; the Israelis are more isolated, yet more emboldened than before; while the United States emerges from the week weaker and less trusted as a world leader. Read More »
It took mass demonstrations followed by the take-over of their embassy in Egypt last week for some in Israel to wake up to the fact that the Palestinian issue remains a flash point for Arab public opinion. The U.S. Congress and policy-makers in Washington, on the other hand, appear to remain oblivious to this rather obvious reality. Read More »
H.R.H. Prince Turki Al Faisal, Chairman, King Faisal Center and Former Ambassador to the United States and United Kingdom; @SultanAlQassemi, Columnist and Social Media Commentator Read More »
"To govern is to choose, and the choices made [by the Bush Administration] in 2002 were fateful. The United States began that year shocked and wounded, but with tremendous strategic advantages. Its population was more closely united...World opinion was strongly sympathetic. Longtime allies were eager to help...The federal budget was nearly in balance...All that was required was to think broadly about the threats to the country, and creatively about the responses. Read More »
Air Date: 9/8/2011
Eric Treene, Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination at the U.S. Department of Justice; Hind Khoury, Former Ambassador of Palestine to France; Rashid Ghazi, Director of the new film Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football; Kathy Kiely, Managing Editor of Politics for the National Journal Read More »
For Arab Americans, the 2012 election will be different. Many of the same critical issues that shaped the 2008 contest are still in play, and will define the national agenda in 2012: Iraq remains unsettled; there is no Israeli-Palestinian peace; the U.S. economy is still in shambles; and intense partisanship continues to impede solutions to some of our nation's most pressing problems. Nevertheless, this election will be different. Read More »
In the past few weeks, the Republican presidential primary contest has become more confusing and, for some in the GOP, disheartening. For months now, the rather lackluster field of ten or so announced Republican candidates has been raising money, hiring staff, and campaigning vigorously in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina—sites of some of the earliest contests in the 2012 presidential nominating contest. Read More »
For months now, the world has witnessed an acceleration of deadly violence in Syria, as the Assad government has resorted to increasingly brutal methods in an effort to smash a mass uprising in the country. While the government maintains that it has offered the protesters a range of reform proposals, their heavy-handed and lethal repression of largely peaceful demonstrations has called into question the seriousness of their intention to change their approach to governance. Read More »
@AAIUSA BUT there is the issue of #delegates. For the constant #default candidate, #Romney nothing changes, #politically. #Rick!
about 8 hours, 5 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, 46 minutes ago.
@AAIUSA Be sure to follow Corey Stapleton’s campaign @stapletonCorey for an exclusive announcement today.
about 15 hours, 43 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 »
