Not so sure many people around the world, especially in the US know any thing about Assila and its annual summer political, economic and intellectual festival. Too bad, for Assilla should be on every ones mind and the international medial should set aside few minutes a day to cover the events going on. Assila is a great idea, a fantastic idea. Both Aljazeera and Alarabya give full coverage and summary to the events as part of its evening coverage. Read the rest of this entry »

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I am one of those who spoke repeatedly and often on failures of leadership in the Arab world and I often spoke critically and not so politely of the leadership with the Arab world and was and remain particularly critical of the past and present Palestinian leadership. Read the rest of this entry »

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In the Middle East and in the US, we have a habit of blaming the governments for all of the ills that afflict the nations. Sometime we go too far to the point where we blame the government for bad weather, and disaster.

In the US unlike the Middle East, there is a constitutional government with over couple of centuries of established rules that governs changes in government and in administration. The House of Representative is up for elections every two years, though 90 % does not change. The Senate one third changes every two years, though again, hardly a change takes place with the same faces coming back again and again. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jennifer Bremer, a former State Department employee who was stationed in the Arab world and who studied Arab writes in the “Outlook” section in today’s Washington Post, writes about the lack of Arab speaking diplomats in the State Department and es writof the lack of interest from Arab American in joining the State Department. Read the rest of this entry »

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