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Bush Ignores Option Of conditioning U.S. Aid on Acceptance of Existing Peace Plan Paul Findley In his June 24 statement, President George W Bush made history by taking the lead [...]

Mr. France in the Middle East' is Francois Burgat's sobriquet. His connection with the region began in 1968 when, to avoid the military, Burgat joined France's National Service. He asked [...]

Mohammed Jaradat, co-founder of Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, and Eitan Bronstein, director of the Israeli organization Zochrot, spoke on 'Acknowledging the Past; Imagining the Future: [...]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu thrilled a thousand attendees of the Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA) conference at Boston's Old South Church on Oct. 27. Sabeel is an ecumenical grassroots liberation theology [...]

In September 1993, while Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands in Washington, DC, Ramzy Baroud was living in Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. The entire camp celebrated the advent [...]

Less than three weeks before her untimely death from a stroke at the age of 63, Prof. Tanya Reinhart, formerly of Tel Aviv University and author of The Road Map [...]

'The Israeli point of view is it's okay to practice apartheid, but it's not okay for the world to know they're doing it.' So said Daphne Banai, Tel Aviv coordinator [...]

Professor Norman Finkelstein was the keynote speaker at 'Prospect for Peace? The Palestinian Israeli Conflict,' an event organized by BAKA--Students United for Middle Eastern Justice, on Oct. 30 at Rutgers [...]

At an April 11 lecture sponsored by the Transregional Institute of Princeton University, Sara Roy spoke about 'The Crisis Within: The Struggle for Palestinian Society.' According to Dr. Roy, a [...]

Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the U.S. Prince Turki Al-Faisal spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Nov. 8 at the 59th Annual Conference [...]

We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality.--Administration official quoted in 'Say Anything,' by Jim Holt in The New Yorker, Aug. 22, 2005. To anyone [...]

Welcome to Washington for this extraordinary AIPAC conference. I'm told that the attendance far surpasses any other conference, and it's always been one of the biggest gatherings that Washington hosts [...]

Kicking off the recent visit to Washington by Palestinian Authority (PA) representatives was a May 25 address by PA Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa. His talk at the Carnegie Endowment for [...]

As director of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Dr. Khalil Shikaki has conducted more than 100 surveys of Palestinian public opinion since 1995. Discussing 'Palestinians in [...]

Dr. Sadeq Faris captured the imaginations of architects and engineers Feb. 17 as he gave a power point explanation of his revolutionary approach to technology's challenge to globalization. The occasion [...]

George W. Bush came to the General Assembly on Sept. 21--and did not declare war on Syria, North Korea or Iran. He left that to Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, [...]

The World Affairs Council of Oregon's International Speakers Series on Jan. 28 featured former Sen. George Mitchell, who discussed 'Making Peace' on the same day as the Israeli elections and [...]

Boston's Old South Church, which, according to its brochure, boasts a 350-year history of dissent 'proclaiming the Gospel of justice, inclusiveness, and reconciliation,' was a fitting site for an April [...]

'I decided to bring three extraordinary women who did not know each other but lived in or near Jerusalem,' Jerri Bird told audiences in 10 U.S. cities in September. 'I [...]

On Sept. 24, the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine hosted a briefing by Khader Shkirat, director general of the Palestinian Society for Human Rights and the Environment (LAW). Shkirat [...]

As a Palestinian, as a former U.N. journalist, as a sociology professor at New York University, and as a woman, Rabib Abdulhadi spoke to an audience of about 25 at [...]

The national Muslim Student Association hosted a July 26 lecture by Prof. Tariq Ramadan at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Ramadan, currently a professor of philosophy and Islamic studies [...]

The Washington, DC-based Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine hosted a lecture by Dr. Sarah Roy on changes in Palestinian social and economic conditions. Dr. Roy, a research associate at [...]

Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed 160 graduates of the Seeds of Peace International Camp for Conflict Resolution on Aug. 14 at the U.S. Department of State. Founded in 1993, [...]

Standing-room-only audiences of Christians, Muslims and Jews met for the first time ever July 10 at the Episcopal Cathedral Church of the Advent in downtown Birmingham, Alabama to hear Dr. [...]

Members of a delegation that recently returned from Israel and the occupied territories demonstrated that seeing really is believing. At a July 2 roundtable discussion entitled, 'Eyewitnesses to Occupied Palestine,' [...]

'The last eight months have been unprecedented in terms of the amount of myth created about events,' said Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi in a June 11 luncheon briefing on the realities [...]

In a speech marking the second anniversary of his accession to the throne of Morocco, King Muhammad VI expressed his desire to see his country become 'a modem, democratic state, [...]

In response to a U.S. federal judge's decision ordering Tehran to pay more than $323 million in damages to an American professor held hostage by pro-Iranian militants in Lebanon, and [...]

'Shout out from the tops of church steeples your concern for Middle East peace.' With these words Secretary of State Colin Powell offered a delegation of church leaders encouragement and [...]

THE INFORMATION on Turkish Kurds on p.98 of the July 2000 Washington Report ('Noam Chomsky Speaks on Global Oppression at University of Toledo') was incorrect. According to a transcript of [...]

Margaret Scobey, State Department director of Arabian Peninsula affairs, addressed the American-Bahrain Friendship Society in Washington, DC on June 12. Scobey praised the long friendly relations between Bahrain and the [...]

Speaking June 14 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, cameraman Talal Abu-Rahma shared his experience of filming the death of Mohammad al-Durra at the hands of Israeli forces. [...]

Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies hosted a luncheon debate on May 30 between Prof. Shafeeq N. Ghabra, director of the Kuwait Information Office in Washington, DC and a [...]

Alumni and friends of the American University of Beirut (AUB) from throughout North America assembled in Chicago May 25 to 27 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Alumni Association [...]

Master of Ceremonies and ADC president Hala Maksoud introduced Columbia University Professor Edward Said to guests at the June 9 ADC Convention dinner. The literary critic and well-known advocate of [...]

Several people presented the Palestinian perspective on U.S.-Arab relations at a panel discussion at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination annual convention. Attorney Raef Zreik described the dilemma the Palestinian Authority (PA) faces [...]

Arab-American, former Green Party presidential candidate, and long-time consumer activist Ralph Nader addressed a large audience at the Friday, June 9 dinner of the 18th annual American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, on [...]

'We Americans may shake our heads in disgust at news of atrocities in other nations, or shrug our shoulders at distant problems being of no concern to us. But U.S. [...]

On May 22, the Kuwait Information Office hosted a talk by two visiting Kuwaiti scholars and prominent leaders of the women's movement in Kuwait: Dr. Samira Omar and Dr. Roula [...]

Members of the American Friends service Committee Rick McCutcheon and Tamara Fleming addressed the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (CPAP) concerning their relief work in Iraq. Marking the date, [...]

On April 17, Israeli journalist Israel Shamir spoke at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Hosted by the Young Arab Leadership Alliance of Georgetown University, the event attracted a crowd of [...]

The American Committee on Jerusalem (ACJ) hosted a panel on the future prospects of a Jerusalem shared by both Palestine and Israel, April 5 at the Rayburn House Office Building [...]

Israel Shamir also spoke at the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) in Springfield, VA on April 13. He suggested that when Muslim Americans engage in dialogues with Christians [...]

On March 29 at the East Hawaii Cultural Center in downtown Hilo, Dr. Yusuf Tamimi presented a slide show depicting Palestine before and after the Israeli occupation. Dr. Tamimi, who [...]

The Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) held the 24th in its series of Capitol Hill Conferences on March 8 in Washington, DC, on the subject, 'With the 'Process' Dead, What [...]

Al-Sitt Rabab al-Sadr, head of the Tyre-based Moussa al-Sadr Foundation and sister of the Shi'i imam who vanished in 1978 while on a trip to Libya, discussed the current situation [...]

Dr. Susan Boyle discussed her new book, Betrayal of Palestine: The Story of George Antonius, at the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine on March 27, 2001. Antonius (1891-1942) was [...]

On April 1, Al Minaret Institute, an Islamic think tank based in Maryland, hosted its annual fund-raising banquet. Dr. ImadDeen Ahmad, the institute's director, welcomed the guests. Keynote speaker Dr. [...]

Bashar Asadi addressed the Princeton Middle East Society on March 8 on 'Water for Palestine.' Asadi, whose Palestinian family were 1948 refugees, was born in Damascus. He now is an [...]