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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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      US Senate candidate JD Vance, left, greets former president Donald Trump at a rally in Delaware, Ohio, last month. AP Photo
      Despite recent setbacks, Trumpism is still on the US ballot

      Even though some candidates backed by the former president lost, the ideology has captured the Republican Party

      CommentMay 26, 2022
      A tribute to Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank, in Nazareth, on Monday. Reuters
      A week on, what does Shireen Abu Akleh's killing say about being a Palestinian American?

      It seems as if US citizenship offers no special protection for Palestinian Americans

      CommentMay 18, 2022
      Members of Neturei Karta, who describe themselves as a group of Orthodox Jews against zionism, protest outside the White House last August. AP Photo
      Pro-Israel groups have taken notice of a shift in US politics

      They are changing their strategies accordingly, but it's likely to be an uphill climb for them

      OpinionMay 13, 2022
      A billboard for the upcoming parliamentary election with text in Arabic reading "your vote on May 15 will nullify May 7", referring to a 2009 incident, in front of the Mohammed Al Amin Mosque and the Maronite Cathedral of St George, at Martyrs' Square, in Beirut. AFP
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      A glimmer of hope as Lebanon goes to the polls

      Despite protracted turmoil in the country, there is a slim belief that elections may bring change

      CommentMay 03, 2022
      US President Joe Biden in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington last week. AFP
      The world order game has new players

      The US and Russia dominated 20 years ago but the situation has changed

      CommentApril 25, 2022
      A runner during the Palestine eighth international Marathon in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. AP
      The need to assert non-violence in the Palestinian movement

      Violent tactics might make some on both sides feel good, but they produce little political progress

      CommentApril 18, 2022
      Roughly six per cent of Arab Americans identified Palestinian heritage in a 2000 survey. Postgraduate student Feda Saleh, 24, was born in New York and has lived in the US for most of her life, but she sees the towns of Ramallah and Nubira as her true home.
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      Even US President Joe Biden has thanked the community for its vast contributions to America

      CommentApril 13, 2022
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      The discomfort of emerging from the 'Covid cave' in an unvaccinated America

      Half of Americans aren't fully vaccinated, so getting back to normal is still tough for many

      CommentApril 07, 2022
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      How the Madeleine Albright I knew really felt about the plight of Arabs

      The former Secretary of State was controversial, but also misunderstood

      CommentMarch 27, 2022
      In the winter of 1942, citizens of Leningrad dig up water from a broken main, during the 900-day siege of the Russian city by German invaders. AP
      The invasion of Ukraine isn’t a solitary blot of violence on the history of Europe

      Conversely, anti-Arab bias is apparent in some of parallels drawn in the West to the war in Ukraine

      CommentMarch 23, 2022
      Reuters
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      It was a shock when AT&T said it was phasing out 3G and that BlackBerrys would no longer work

      CommentMarch 16, 2022
      A Ukrainian serviceman helps an elderly woman to leave destroyed residential building after shelling in Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 8. EPA
      Western double standards, this time towards Ukraine, are on display again

      Can any one group of people ever be more worthy of support than another?

      CommentMarch 09, 2022
      The US Capitol building can be seen past American and Ukrainian flags that were hung on the light posts lining Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday night. AFP
      Why aren't American policymakers focusing on the Ukrainian people?

      The conflict is being viewed through the narrow 'Nato versus Russia' and 'Biden versus Putin' lenses

      CommentMarch 03, 2022
      Palestinians in Gaza City protest against the meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Central Committee meeting in Ramallah this month. AFP
      The PLO is dying. Where does that leave the Palestinian cause?

      The national movement needs to be reconstituted from the bottom up, for which there's only one solution

      CommentFebruary 24, 2022
      Items are pictured amid the collection of Elizabeth Meaders, 90, of thousands of historical and cultural artifacts, which traces the African American experience from the Revolutionary War and the beginnings of slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement to today's Black Lives Matter movement, being offered in a single lot auction sale by Guernsey's on February 28, 2022, at her home in the Staten Island borough of New York City. Reuters
      How Black History Month reminds us of the world's many injustices

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      CommentFebruary 17, 2022
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