The Arab American Institute is hosting LIVE webchats from Palestine!
You can chat with:
Thursday, June 7
1:30 - 2:00 p.m. - Rafiq Husseini, chief of staff to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. - Ghaith Al-Omari and Daniel Levy, lead Palestinian and Israeli drafters of the Geneva Accords (Note: new time)
Friday, June 8
12:00 - 12:30 p.m. - Diana Buttu, professor at Birzeit University, former lawyer for Palestinian negotiating team, advisor to President Abbas
Monday, June 11
6:00 - 6:30 p.m. - Aron Kader, Arab American comedian, member of the "Axis of Evil" Comedy Tour.
Tell us your question! Make sure your question is first in line by sending it in advance to rabouchedid@aaiusa.org.
Note: All times are Eastern Standard.
More info can be found here!
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What people don’t know about Jim Zogby and the Arab American Institute is that he is not the representative of the Arab American community to the American media and political system, he is the American political system’s representative to the Arab American community. Jim has supported sanctions on Iraq, has supported invasion of Iraq. Has single handedly undermined competing secular Arab American groups like ADC by helping launch pro-Saudi Muslim American groups like AMC and MPAC and others who have moves away from Arab human and national rights issues. He is popular because the Saudis back him up. Jim Zogby is the child of Saudi money, who decided that leftist and secular groups like Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is just too darn progressive and too darn leftist for their taste. So they have bankrolled AAI and AMC and MPAC. Lukily for us, the most effective Muslim American group, CAIR, is run by Arab Americans with strong ties to the Sham area.