Iranian News Agency Requests Obama Interview
The official press of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), requested an interview with President Obama, rep...
The official press of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), requested an interview with President Obama, rep...
Richard Klass | Posted 05.25.2011
Iraq, Israel-Syria talks, Gaza and Lebanon all affect and are affected by the US-Iran imbroglio. The Middle East is one of the most interwoven political webs on the globe.
Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama: "The language we use has to be a language of respect...the language we use matters." So does enlightened diplomacy. Let's hope Obama ushers in real change by implementing both.
GlobalPost.com | Jean MacKenzie | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL -- One week after the world hailed his inauguration, Barack Obama has undertaken an unprecedented charm offensive towards the Muslim world. B...
Time | Scott Macleod | Posted 05.25.2011
How did a journalist for an Arabic-language broadcaster score the first television interview granted by President Barack Obama? Well, at first, Hisham...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Scroll down for video Barack Obama struck a note of foreign policy confidence Monday night, telling an Arabic news station that al Qaida leaders and ...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
CNN's Wolf Blitzer spokes with Hisham Melhem, the Al Arabiya Washington bureau chief who conducted the first television interview with President Obama...
Dean Obeidallah | Posted 05.25.2011
If an Arab interviewer asks a question you don't like, take off your shoe and throw it at him. That will show everyone in the Arab world that you really understand us.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The true test of Obama's presidency will not only be the innovative statecraft of its regional diplomacy, but also his ability to mobilize a comprehensive initiative to lift the Arab world out of its economic and social poverty.
Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011