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...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Leave it to conservative FOX News' Washington, D.C. managing editor Britt Hume to raise the specter of John McCain's age as an issue in the 2008 elect...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Democrats should not permit McCain to gain further traction by falsely asserting he is charting a new foreign policy course.
Steve Clemons | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
I am a devoted Brzezinski fan -- and his critique of Hillary Clinton's Iraq War positions are similar to my own -- but I differ from him on the Mamie Eisenhower comparison.
Steve Clemons | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
I recently enjoyed a BloggingHeads discussion, or what Non Zero author and BloggingHeads creator Robert Wright calls a "diavlog", with Juan Cole. T...
Charlie Rose | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Wright talks about what the future struggle for democracy in the Middle East might look like, and what the US can do to support it.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
FALLON: "Sir, I think war with Iran would be a mistake. The Iranians are by and large pro-American. They are also growing disillusioned with their government." CHENEY: "Horsesh*t!
LA Times | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
Just days after a controversial article in Esquire magazine described Adm. William J. Fallon as the man standing in the way of a Bush administration w...
Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media
It came as a surprise to me last night, to find out that there are places in the world where women are not allowed to drive. In Saudi Arabia, for exam...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush, dispatching Vice President Dick Cheney to the Middle East, said the goal is to get Israelis and Palestinians to hol...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
Kudos to Mr. Spielberg, who has done far more than Secretary of State Rice seems to have been able to do to capture Beijing's attention in the matter of Darfur.
Hooman Majd | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
While some have rightly deplored the Karl Rovian campaign tactic, few have suggested that very premise of the ad is pure fiction, or have wondered what exactly the hypothetical crisis might entail.
James Zogby | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
We must know more than whether they will stay in or how quickly they will leave Iraq. The problems are more complex and require more thoughtful discussion.
New York Times | Robert F. Worth | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business
Even as it enriches Arab rulers, the recent oil-price boom is helping to fuel an extraordinary rise in the cost of food and other basic goods that is ...
James Zogby | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
It may be possible. But not by conducting "business as usual."
Washington Post | William M. Arkin | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
The "pause" is now official, replacing the surge. Once the summer's withdrawal of five-plus brigades from Iraq is completed, a broad consensus of defe...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
The last thing McCain needs is a media that begins reminding the American people why his unyielding support for a long term commitment of U.S. forces in Iraq is just a carryover of Bush's Iraq disaster.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics
Memo to the next president: from Morocco to Indonesia, if we (and they) don't blow the opportunity, there is a chance to make the "long war" a far shorter war.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics
In the land that hosts Al Jazeera, it is with some irony that the Summit commences against a backdrop of increasing efforts by Arab governments to restrict press freedom.
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of ...
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
Mr. Bush's Middle East adventures underscore the enormity of his foreign policy failures, from which it may take America years to recover.
Huffington Post | Posted 02.11.2008 | Home
Update: Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi released a statement on fellow Democratic Representative Tom Lantos' death. The passing of Tom Lantos is ...
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James Zogby | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics