Dr. James Zogby

Dr. James J. Zogby is the author of Arab Voices (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2010) and the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community. Since 1985, Dr. Zogby and AAI have led Arab American efforts to secure political empowerment in the U.S. Through voter registration, education and mobilization, AAI has moved Arab Americans into the political mainstream.

For the past three decades, Dr. Zogby has been involved in a full range of Arab American issues. A co-founder and chairman of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign in the late 1970s, he later co-founded and served as the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. In 1982, he co-founded Save Lebanon, Inc., a private non-profit, humanitarian and non-sectarian relief organization which funds health care for Palestinian and Lebanese victims of war, and other social welfare projects in Lebanon. In 1985, Zogby founded AAI.

Featuring Dr. James Zogby …

Co-founder and President of the Arab American Institute.

Author of Arab Voices: What They are Saying to Us and Why It Matters (2010).

Co-author of Running for All the Right Reasons: A Saudi-Born Woman’s Pursuit of Democracy (2008).

Author of What Ethnic Americans Really Think: The Zogby Culture Polls (2001)

Author of What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns (2002)

Dr. Zogby publishes a weekly opinion column titled Washington Watch through the Arab American Institute.

Viewpoint with Dr. Zogby is a LIVE one-hour call-in discussion program about Middle East and world issues hosted by Dr. James Zogby.

Dr. Zogby’s article titled “Understanding America’s Right Wing” in Media Monitors Network.

Dr. Zogby’s blog through The Huffington Post.

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