President Trump at a welcoming ceremony in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday. CreditAmir Cohen/Reuters By: PETER BAKER, MICHAEL D. SHEAR and IAN FISHER Source: THE NEW YORK TIMES President Trump began a two-day visit to Israel on Monday with what amounted to a blunt assessment for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: If Israel really wants peace … Continued
By: James J. Zogby Source: Arab American Institute As I write, President Donald Trump is on his way to the Middle East where he has set a high stakes program addressing some of the United States’ and the Arab World’s most critical concerns: Gulf security, defeating extremism, reining in Iran, and resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. … Continued
Source: CNN US President Donald Trump on Sunday delivered a speech to the leaders of more than 50 Muslim countries to outline his vision for US-Muslim relations. Here is a complete transcript of his remarks. “I want to thank King Salman for his extraordinary words, and the magnificent Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for hosting today’s … Continued
Fine arts graduate, Maria Awad, poses for photograph outside a pub in the Old Damascus, Syria. By: Noah Browning Source: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Saudi Arabia and Israel, two bastions of relative calm in the war-battered Middle East, on his first foreign trip beginning this weekend. In much of the region, authoritarian … Continued
By: Osama Al Sharif Source: The Middle East Institute If it’s tough enough for media pundits to keep up with President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on domestic politics, then the task of reading the president’s stand on key foreign issues is even more difficult. Jordan, one of America’s closest Middle Eastern partners, has been trying to … Continued
President Donald Trump arrives in the Kennedy Garden of the White House in Washington, May 1, 2017. By: Jamie Dettmer Source: Voice of America It isn’t the first time a new U.S. President has promised a fresh start in American-Arab relations. Eight years ago Barack Obama promised a beneficial reset in a speech delivered in Cairo … Continued
By: James J. Zogby Source: Arab American Institute During a confusing and unsettling time, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas came to Washington to meet with US President Donald Trump. As has been the case with most issues, Trump has been remarkably unpredictable when addressing the Middle East. During his campaign for the White House, not … Continued
By: Peter Beinart Source: Forward “Mr. President, with you, we have hope.” So said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his joint press conference at the White House on Wednesday. As with so much in the Donald Trump era, it’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Hope? Trump’s Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, … Continued
Source: Arabian Business Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed his first foreign trip as president will include stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican. Trump will add the three stops to an already announced visit to NATO and G7 summits in Brussels and Sicily later this month. “My first foreign trip as president of the … Continued
By Mythili Sampathkumar The Independent Donald Trump held a press conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and said his administration “will get it done” regarding a peace agreement with Israel. Mr Trump said he had always heard “this was the toughest deal to make, let’s prove them wrong.” This was the first face-to-face meeting with … Continued
By Philip Rucker and Karen DeYoung The Washington Post An Egyptian American charity worker who was imprisoned in Cairo for three years and became the global face of Egypt’s brutal crackdown on civil society returned home to the United States late Thursday after the Trump administration quietly negotiated her release. President Trump and his aides … Continued
By Laith Saud Chicago Reader Laith Saud, 38, was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1978, and immigrated to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1979. Today he’s a visiting assistant professor of religion with a focus on Islamic studies at DePaul University, and the coauthor of An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century. Here he … Continued
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