Americans and U.S. political leaders: Our elections are unfolding on a world stage, and because our policies matter in the lives of people in the Middle East, they are watching.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
Celebrations have been taking place across Israel to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state. Israeli families enjoyed fireworks, conce...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Today, gun battles have erupted in Beirut following a speech by Hezbollah's Secretary General. Has Lebanon become the new battlefield for Saudi Arabia and Iran, or is it edging closer towards civil war?
Allan Gerson | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
One can be prosecuted for supplying "material support or resources" to entities on the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. By this standard, Carter has engaged in criminal activity.
James Zogby | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Arab media may not be free, but Arab journalists are free thinkers, and quite serious about expanding their freedom to examine critical issues.
Charlie Rose | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media
Zakaria argues that America's power will wane as the global economy continues to rapidly grow.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
Wherever you are on the political spectrum, an increasingly overt Iranian enterprise is taking a growing toll on American troops in Iraq.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
Jimmy Carter has a simple idea: you can only make peace when you talk to your enemies. Our current policy makes it unlikely that groups like Hamas might moderate their policies
Daniel Levy | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Yesterday could not have presented a more stunning portrayal of the self-marginalization of America as an actor in Israeli-Arab conflict resolution under the Bush administration.
Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
The confirmation hearings should give Democrats an opportunity to finally get Petraeus to answer some central questions.
Trita Parsi | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
By negotiating a Shiite truce, Tehran embarrassed Washington last week and arguably proved itself to be a more potent stabilizer of southern Iraq.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
In Jordan and Syria, I was surprised to learn that most people saw no difference between Clinton and Obama; when it came to the Middle East, to them "the lesser of the two evils is still evil."
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
The idea that you make progress towards peace by refusing to talk to your adversary, as belligerent and threatening as they might be, is childish, idiotic and just plain dumb.
Warren Goldstein | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics
At the Seder, the order of service asks participants to imagine themselves as participants in the Exodus, so as to make the story of liberation alive in our own time. And I've got a new version of Exodus for you to think about tonight.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment
Spurlock's film shows how regular people can ferret out simple truths, when our leaders fail to make the effort.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
The new J-Street lobby should follow its declared aim and look for diplomatic solutions to the tragic conflicts in the Middle East. Unfortunately, this is not what you will find in their PR onslaught.
Mark Levine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
For anyone who's traveled unembedded through Iraq since the U.S. invasion and occupation began five years ago, Andrew Sullivan's warning brings a sad smile of recognition, and a hope that his words will prove prophetic.
Gary Hart | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
I find it outrageous for any candidate to question Obama's commitment to continuation of the U.S.-Israeli partnership and particularly to do so in a sinister, duplicitous, and scurrilous manner by spreading false rumors.
Phillip Martin | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
An added barrier to getting to know Iraqis beyond skin color and stereo-types is the wholesale ignorance of Islam.
James Zogby | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
At least among the elite audiences I addressed, despite the domestic challenges they were facing, they saw the American election as critical to their futures. In many ways they viewed this election as their own.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
If we are not principally fighting Al Qaeda, but one Shiite faction against another, isn't this just "mission creep" with no end in sight?
James Zogby | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
Only satellite television can reach an Arab audience and an American audience at the same time.
James Zogby | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home
As some of you may know, I appear weekly on "Viewpoint," a live call-in television program on Abu Dhabi TV. I have been doing "Viewpoint" since 2001, ...
Steve Clemons | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
Boeing has no sense of what consequences a financial relationship with Frank Gaffney might have on its Arab nation customers.
William Fisher | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics
The news went largely unreported, so you may have missed it, but last week the editor of a newspaper in Cairo was sentenced to six months in prison fo...
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James Zogby | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics