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James J. Zogby
By James J. Zogby - Sep 19,2022
Here is a story I have never told before:I travelled to Tunisia in late 1993 to meet with PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat.
By James J. Zogby - Sep 12,2022
Back in the 1960s, Americans were deeply divided on matters of war and race, with Christians in America on both sides of the divide. While Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
By James J. Zogby - Sep 05,2022
I have been on vacation for the past two weeks. Unlike previous years, this time I cut myself off from work.
By James J. Zogby - Aug 29,2022
On a US Embassy-sponsored speaking tour in Yemen before its 1993 national elections, I met with the leaders of various political parties and heard complaints about the ruling party’s repressive and anti-democratic behaviors.
By James J. Zogby - Aug 22,2022
In 2020, I published “Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why It Matters.” Based on our polling during the first decade of this new century, “Arab Voices” was an effort to lay out the myths that have shaped Western discourse about the Arab World, understand why those myth
By James J. Zogby - Aug 15,2022
Twenty years ago when Congress passed the bipartisan McCain-Feingold bill on campaign finance reform, many celebrated what they hoped would be a new era in US politics. There were limits set for individual contributions and those of political action committees.
By James J. Zogby - Aug 08,2022
Fifty years ago this July, Israel assassinated Ghassan Kanafani, by planting a bomb in his car killing him and his 17-year-old niece.
By James J. Zogby - Aug 02,2022
The Biden administration’s approach and media coverage given to the president’s visits to Israel/Palestine and Saudi Arabia were starkly contradictory.
By James J. Zogby - Jul 25,2022
My conflicted feelings about the Fourth of July were a long time in the making. In eighth grade I won a citywide speech contest, delivering remarks on patriotism to an audience including my proud parents.
By James J. Zogby - Jul 12,2022
Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, was in the Middle East earlier this month with her children. In the region for work-related meetings, she had taken them to her ancestral home in Lebanon.