One Year Later: Obama's Best Speeches (VIDEO)
HuffPost is looking back at President Obama's best speeches since the election. One year in, help us pick the standouts: VideoCampaignText = "How ...
HuffPost is looking back at President Obama's best speeches since the election. One year in, help us pick the standouts: VideoCampaignText = "How ...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
The latest Pew Global Attitudes Project survey shows that the international opinion of America has improved as a result of Barack Obama, with the exce...
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
President Obama may well find that no matter who is elected president of Iran, the chances of a negotiated rapprochement will be far greater than it has been in the past 30 years.
Mona Sarika | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
The Cairo speech will not change certain realities overnight, but it has managed to persuade many skeptical Pakistanis about President Obama's good intentions.
Mona Eltahawy | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
When President Barack Obama said he wanted to address women's rights during his speech to Muslims last week, I said a prayer to the God of the Torah, the Bible and the Quran: please don't let him fall into the trap of headscarves and hymens.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 07.16.2009 | World
In order for the Gulf states to move forward from paying lip service to the Palestinian cause, the first step is to meet Mr. Obama half way.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
Obama will not compromise the imperatives of Israel's security, but he also will not ease his efforts in aiding in the creation of a second State, a Palestinian one, for which we have waited 60 years.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
Promotion of literacy for girls is a noble cause. But unless sharia laws are repealed, more girls will find themselves in flogging pens rather than rising up the career ladder.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
Obama was apparently unwilling to take advantage of his highly publicized visits with the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia to break with his predecessors' coddling of these tyrannical regimes.
Lanny Davis | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Many American Jews and Israelis feel strongly that Mr. Obama should better understand that such public scolding of Israel will only strengthen the hardliners of Israeli (and Arab) politics.
Mohamed Elshahed | Posted 07.10.2009 | Eyes & Ears
President Obama's speech was well-received on the Egyptian street, but retracing the President's path through "the timeless city of Cairo" quickly reveals that change will be hard to come by.
Ken Bacon | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Reducing displacement in Muslim countries and elsewhere is an important step toward creating a more peaceful, prosperous and stable world. The benefits will reach far beyond the Islamic world.
Max Bergmann | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
Obama's efforts beginning with his inaugural address and continued with his overtures to Iran may not be revolutionary, but they have changed the climate of American engagement with the region.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Via, Crooks And Liars. Last week, Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen and CNN war correspondent Michael Ware "debated" whether or not President Barack Oba...
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
As the Vienna Philharmonic finished its annual outdoor program at the Schonbrunn Castle, the guest conductor Daniel Barenboim exclaimed to the 50,000 ...
Mark Levine | Posted 07.07.2009 | World
For all its well-intentioned rhetoric, President Obama's speech was, sadly, conceptually flawed, empirically challenged, and politically blind to the daily realities that drive hundreds of millions of Muslims to increasing despair.
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.07.2009 | World
In the hours after Obama concluded his speech, Israeli commentators were particularly struck by his implicit linkage of Palestinian aspirations and other global struggles for freedom.
Jerusalem Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
A day after US President Barack Obama reiterated his call to stop settlement activity during a speech in Cairo, defiant settlers continued to erect il...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
As civilized as it was for Obama to extend a hand to the faithful, Muslims cannot have it both ways. They can't demand respect while using religion as a reactionary force.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Muslims now have the leader of the most powerful nation on earth agreeing with them and seeking their help.
Wajahat Ali | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Obama's speech, which was meticulously and strategically crafted as if penned by a chess master, had to simultaneously appease millions humiliated and dejected by a hypocritical and brutal U.S. foreign policy, and also justify U.S. objectives without appearing imperialistic or apologetic.
Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
A few thoughts after the Cairo Address. I don't know about you, but I am increasingly weary of our national leader trying to win friends and influen...
Lionel | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living
I laugh not at the concept and notion of religion or the Bible. I laugh at how anything is susceptible to misinterpretation and how the easily-swayed inspire the most dreadful of behaviors.
Wael Nawara | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Obama's speech may serve as the preamble of an informal collective contract in which each party, Arabs, Israelis and Americans must play its role and honor its commitments and obligations.
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
The president seemed to know every little detail in the 'What Upsets Arabs' booklet and tackled them one by one.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics