A few months back, the Arab World was shaken by a New York Times article claiming to detail Obama Administration's efforts to disengage from the Middle East in order to facilitate its "pivot toward the East".

In the face of growing insecurity, Christians throughout the Arab East will soon be celebrating Christmas.

Last week, I wrote a piece about a poster that has been hanging in my office for more than two decades. 

We've heard what Israel Prime Minister and members of the U.S. Congress think about the interim nuclear deal the Iranian government concluded with the P5 + 1. What we don’t know is how the Iranian people will react? What do Iranians want from their newly elected government and how will this deal play at home?

By now, I should be used to the fact that people will "cherry-pick" polls or try to "spin" results to fit their agendas. But, it still rankles.

In the midst of the confusion and uncertainty that characterizes current US-Egypt relations and with American and Egyptian attitudes toward each other having plummeted to all-time lows, I recently had the opportunity to participate in a "little" gem of a project that shows a way forward. 

For those of us who've worked with Dearborn Michigan's Arab American community during the past three decades, victories in this past week's municipal elections were more than just big news.

By any measure, this was a big week for diplomacy at the United Nations.

As I attempted to demonstrate in "Arab Voices: What They Are Saying and Why It Matters" we, in the West, are still mystified by the Arab World.

Any honest assessment of the events unfolding across Egypt will recognize that they have all the aspects of a classic tragedy.

During the second half of July, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) conducted a nation-wide face-to-face survey of 5,042 Egyptian adults in an effort to learn how they were reacting to developments in the post-Tamarrud, post-Morsi era, as well as their assessment of the US-Egypt relationship.

Anyone who cares about the Arab World has to be profoundly shaken by the unraveling that is taking place across the Levant. Reviewing events unfolding from Iraq in the East to Lebanon in the West can give one the distinct feeling that the region is on a path leading to self-destruction.

In October of 1984 I attended the annual dinner of the National Italian American Foundation (NAIF) and heard campaign speeches delivered by then President Ronald Reagan and former Vice-President Walter Mondale.