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James Zogby

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After receiving his PhD in Comparative Religions and Middle East Studies and then teaching for a number of years, Dr James Zogby began a career in politics. During the past five decades, he founded a number of Arab-American civil rights organisations, served in a leadership role in the Democratic Party and in five Democratic presidential campaigns, and received appointments from both presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He also founded Zogby Research Services, which has conducted groundbreaking public opinion polling across the Middle East.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. AP
Is Netanyahu going to make a comeback?

Israel is to hold elections for the fifth time in four years amid talk of another change of guard

CommentOctober 06, 2022
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Democrats have lost the white working class – will they ever get it back?

The party has a reputation for being 'out of touch' and seems to insist on keeping it that way

CommentOctober 03, 2022
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With the US midterms around the corner, there is more than one challenge for Democrats

Among other issues, they need an inclusive message to end polarisation

CommentSeptember 22, 2022
Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the PLO, with Shimon Peres, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1994. Copyright World Economic Forum
Palestine needs to be backed by a vision

Arafat elevated the Palestinian national identity and movement but there were obvious mistakes

CommentSeptember 14, 2022
Martin Luther King Jr addressed the crowd during the 'March on Washington' at Lincoln Memorial, Washington. Hulton Archive
Dear America, what's with all the religious labels?

Behaviour isn't defined simply by the religion to which the person or institution adheres

CommentSeptember 07, 2022
French soldiers arrive in Beirut after the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that placed Lebanon under French rule. Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
It's time for Arabs to take destiny into their own hands

The West tore the Arab world into separate states but that cannot continue to be the excuse for the region's failings

CommentSeptember 01, 2022
The US Capitol building in Washington. Bloomberg
America's growing democratic deficit

The vaunted 'shining city on the hill' is beginning to resemble some Middle Eastern countries

CommentAugust 26, 2022
A gathering of the Muslim and Arab community held by the Arab American Institute in Sunset Park Brooklyn, New York. Photo: Michael Falco
America can gain by paying attention to Arab voices

What Arabs like less are US policies towards them

CommentAugust 18, 2022
The integrity of US elections is at stake, being distorted as it is by excessive amounts of 'dark money'. AP
'Dark money' and negative advertising are distorting the US political process

Election outcomes should not be determined by bidders who spend vast amounts of cash to destroy an opponent

CommentAugust 12, 2022
Ghassan Kanafani. Kanafani Archives
If Ghassan Kanafani were alive today, would we be thinking of Palestine differently?

The towering intellect's life was cruelly cut short when he was assassinated 50 years ago

CommentAugust 03, 2022
A memorial wall displaying images of Ukrainian servicemen and women killed since the Russian invasion. AFP
The Ukraine war is going nowhere – end it now

With a stalemate and little else expected, it's time for talks to find a lasting solution

CommentJuly 28, 2022
US President Joe Biden stands next to Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, right, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog during the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem last week. EPA
How Biden's Middle East visit has exposed American biases

The administration and the media's attitudes towards Israel/Palestine and Saudi Arabia couldn't have been starker

CommentJuly 18, 2022
People watch the Independence Day fireworks show in Miami Beach, Florida, on July 4, 2022. EPA
How I rediscovered my love for America

An uplifting experience at this year's Fourth of July celebrations in the White House led to an epiphany

CommentJuly 14, 2022
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Biden's critics are using anti-Arab racism and hypocrisy to undermine his Middle East trip

Criticism is valid, but bigotry is not

CommentJuly 08, 2022
A girl poses for a picture with the Palestinian flag in front of the Dome of the Rock mosque inside Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque complex, on May 27. AFP
Discrimination towards Arab Americans has to end

The issue has cropped up again, for two reasons

CommentJune 29, 2022
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