Palestine Think Tank

James Zogby isn't just an Arab American with an opinion. He is the president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a well known writer, and an esteemed leader within the Arab American community. Many non-Arab Americans highly regard his analysis and look to his articles as a resource to understand the Middle East.
This is precisely [...]

SOME GOOD NEWS!!! (thanks Ibrahim for the tip!)
Election day in the United States, 2008, will be remembered in most history books as the day Americans elected the first African-American as president. But it also deserves to go down in history for another reason. It was the first day when Americans rejected the instructions of their [...]

It was impossible to find a major newspaper or magazine anywhere in the world that did not have a headline that read something like “Change has come to America ". I hope what these publications mean is that African Americans finally made it to the White House and racism is gone.
But how was the United [...]

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
So Obama is the man, and the wave of collective adoration has embarked the shores like the Normandy Invasion. As I wrote in a recent article, to people who live in other parts of the world (and that means almost the absolute majority of humanity), the self-proclaimed position of the USA not [...]

(First published on one of our favourite sites, The Palestine Chronicle) Barack Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya swept to victory as the US first black president. Despite the long campaign, the mud slung, the ugly inferences and demeaning charges, the elevation of Obama to the White House is a proud transcendent [...]

WRITTEN BY JUDITH BUTLER  Source ANGRY WHITE KID
Very few of us are immune to the exhilaration of this time.  My friends on the left write to me that they feel something akin to "redemption" or that "the country has been returned to us" or that "we finally have one of us in the White House."  [...]

a dream is a wish your heart makes
when you're fast asleep
Four years ago, when I started blogging, John Kerry had just conceded George Bush's "re-election" after a campaign which Kerry never seriously tried to win. Millions of Americans had been illegally disenfranchised by one dirty trick or another. Who knows how many votes had been [...]

The American people have now taken a stand against the policy eight years of the Bush Administration has come to represent. That is: the neo-colonial wars and the economic crisis. This is what history will remember. Peoples and governments worldwide now hope their expectations will come to be fulfilled.
Many run the risk of being disappointed, [...]

Ad-Dustur
Bush is saying: "Tomorrow you will miss my days[as President]," while holding a sign that reads: "I love Israel." Obama is holding a sign which reads: "I love Israel more!" McCain is holding a sign that reads: "I love Israel more and more!!"

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
It’s not easy or even fun to be an expatriate. Unless you didn’t know, that is just a highfalutin word that is used especially for American emigrants. Why the special word? Because people who “leave” America are expected to see it with a critical (perhaps even artistic) eye, and Americans who “remain” [...]