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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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Competitors run from the starting point during the annual Beirut Marathon, in the Lebanese capital, on Sunday. AFP
Lebanese society is far less divided than you think

Polling data suggests its people are frustrated with the elite but one thing is keeping them hopeful

CommentNovember 16, 2021
Abdullah Hammoud hugs a family member during his mayoral election campaign earlier this month. Hammoud won the race to create history. AP Photo
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Michigan city's new Arab-American mayor is a sign of progress

After fighting prejudice for decades, the community is being represented at various levels in US politics

CommentNovember 08, 2021
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, speaks with Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for Iran's atomic agency, upon his arrival at Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport. AP Photo
Should Iran's nuclear ambitions be such a big deal?

Global powers should be worrying about Tehran's destabilising activities in the Arab world

CommentNovember 02, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer holds a news conference to talk about the benefits of the child tax credit at the Capitol in Washington in July. AP Photo
Politics in the US and Israel: two sides of the same coin

The challenges might be specific to each country but they point to the same problem

CommentOctober 26, 2021
Hafsatou Diallo, originally from Guinea, embraces her friend Yulia Kohut after the conclusion of a naturalisation ceremony in New York City on September 17. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services held its largest naturalisation ceremony welcoming nearly 200 new citizens from 46 countries since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Getty Images / AFP
The US must end discriminatory programmes that do nothing to making Americans safer

There is a need to address past civil rights abuses and promote more humane treatment of immigrants

CommentOctober 18, 2021
Tunisians rally in support of President Kais Saied in Tunis last week. Reuters
Kais Saied's narrow window of opportunity

The president needs to get the Tunisian economy back on track while he enjoys broad public support

CommentOctober 12, 2021
Little progress has been made towards realising a two-state solution. EPA
Sympathy for Palestine in Congress has rarely been matched by action

For decades I have been talking to high-level figures in government about the need to enact change. At best, I got empty words in return.

CommentOctober 05, 2021
US President Joe Biden, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on August 27. EPA
Arab Americans must have equal protection under Israeli law

Difficulties for Arab Americans continue at airports at home and abroad

CommentSeptember 27, 2021
Sheep graze in the former bed of the waters upstream of the Lake Assad reservoir along the Euphrates river by the town of Rumaylah in eastern Syria on July 25. AFP
The Middle East's water crisis isn't only due to climate change

With Turkey planning to construct 22 more dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the situation downstream will only worsen

CommentSeptember 21, 2021
A New York City fireman calls for more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Centre on September 15, 2001. Reuters
For Arab Americans, 9/11 was a double whammy

We were pulled away from our grieving, as some struck out against us with hate

CommentSeptember 07, 2021
Protesters stand outside Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream at their Manhattan store earlier this month. AFP
Has the Ben & Jerry's boycott made a difference?

The US ice cream company's call to pull its product from occupied Palestinian territories offers key lessons

CommentAugust 31, 2021
US President Joe Biden speaks from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington earlier in the week. Reuters
Afghanistan won't derail the Biden presidency

America's chaotic withdrawal could be a stain on his legacy but it's unlikely to be an electoral issue

CommentAugust 24, 2021
Picture from the 1970s shows a general view of Martyrs Square in downtown Beirut that remarkably changed after the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war. AFP
Even Khalil Gibran couldn't have imagined Lebanon's horrors

I want to remember what there is to love about the Lebanon that was - and I hope will be again

CommentAugust 17, 2021
US Congressional Candidate Nina Turner lost despite support from such leaders as Senator Bernie Sanders. Getty Images
How 'dark money' in US politics affects the Palestine-Israel debate

Candidates seeking a more balanced approach to the conflict are being outspent and defeated

CommentAugust 08, 2021
Participants of a vigil against anti-Semitism gather in front of the Synagogue in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany this week. EPA
The long history of anti-Semitism and bigotry against Arabs

Both groups have suffered a history of vilification and endured campaigns of systematic violence

CommentAugust 03, 2021
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