There was considerable drama leading up to the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 (UNSCR 2334) reaffirming the illegality of Israeli settlements. It began with all hell breaking loose on Thursday morning when it became clear that the Egyptians would s

The tumult that has rocked the Arab world contributed to dramatic changes in the Arab public’s attitudes towards important global and regional powers.This is one of the findings of a recent Zogby Research Services (ZRS) poll of over 7,000 adults in six Arab countries (Egypt, Leba

We went into this election cycle knowing that both political parties faced real challenges.Republicans had created and fostered a radical populist movement they intended to use to oppose President Barack Obama but which, in the end, turned on the GOP and devoured their establishm

This week, without debate or an actual vote, the US Senate stealthily passed a disturbing and dangerous piece of legislation introduced by senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Bob Casey (D-PA).Called “The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2016” (AAA), the Scott-Casey bill requires the Depa

Last week, I joined several hundred protesters in a sit-in in front of the Army Corps of Engineers’ Headquarters in Washington, DC.

Commentary on the US elections has shifted from post-mortems to predictions; from how did Donald Trump win to what will he do now that he has won.Projecting what any president-elect will do is often a fool’s errand and in Trump’s case, it is made even more difficult by the fact t

My wife came down to breakfast on Thursday morning still in a daze over the outcome of the election. She said, poignantly: “I feel just like I did after my father died.

For years, Arab American voters, like most other ethnic communities, slightly leaned towards the Democratic Party but were swing voters in national and local elections.This was the pattern we observed in the early years of our more than two decades of biannual surveys of the comm

For years, Arab American voters, like most other ethnic communities, slightly leaned towards the Democratic Party, but were swing voters in national and local elections. This was the pattern we observed in the early years of our more than two decades of biannual surveys of t