James J. Zogby
Founder and President
Arab American Institute
www.aaiusa.org
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1600 K Street, NW, Suite 601
Washington, DC 20006
(t) 202-429-9210
(f) 202-429-9214
jzogby@aaiusa.org
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Areas of Expertise
Democratization, Lebanon, Palestine, U.S.-Arab Relations, U.S. Policy
Dr. James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI). 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 1993, he led Builders for Peace, a private sector committee to promote U.S. business investment in the West Bank and Gaza. Dr. Zogby also led a U.S. delegation to the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian agreement in Cairo. After 1994, through Builders, Zogby worked with a number of US agencies to promote and support Palestinian economic development, including AID, OPIC, USTDA, and the Departments of State and Commerce. Dr. Zogby has also been personally active in U.S. politics for many years. On September 24, 1999, the NDECC elected Dr. James Zogby as its representative to the Democratic National Committee's Executive Committee. In 2005 he was appointed as chair of the DNC's Resolutions Committee. Since 1992, Dr. Zogby has also written a weekly column on U.S. politics called Washington Watch, which is currently published in 14 Arab countries. He has authored a number of books including two recent publications, "What Ethnic Americans Really Think" and "What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns." Dr. Zogby received his doctorate from Temple University's Department of Religion. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, was awarded an honorary doctoral of laws degree and named the outstanding alumnus of the college.
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