"James Joseph Zogby" (born 1945) is the author of Arab Voices and the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.–based organization which serves as a political and policy research arm of the Arab-American community. He is Managing Director of Zogby Research Services, LLC, specializing in research and communications and undertaking polling across the Arab world. Zogby is a lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues and a Visiting Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee.

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He was a revolutionary fighter for justice, and he sought a radical transformation of America and the world.

We continue to oppose the use of military force and think that there's a very significant risk of grave unrest in the Arab world.

It was a very good meeting. He's listening and he's setting a good tone. We've still got some problems to work through, especially detention and profiling.

Some of the biggest battles, recognition of the Palestinians as a real people and ending stereotypes were achieved. We now can refer to this moment as the date when it became possible to have a different discussion about Palestinians.

Common consensus of Arab-Americans and Jewish-Americans for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The fact is, this creates more of a chill than cooperation.

If we expect credit, or expect that this somehow is responsive to the anger of those who have become alienated from the United States, it's not.

They've made a terrible error in calculation and they've led my country into a war that we will need to extricate ourselves from at some point, ... Despite their efforts, there is a growing sense in the world that we need to find other ways of resolving these tensions.

Our silence in the face of the horrific abuses that are taking place on a daily basis in fact are causing people throughout the Middle East to ask serious questions about America and about its commitment to its values.