young jewish ngo worker from chevy chase, md murdered in alexandria, egypt

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Young Jewish Pro-Democracy NGO worker from Chevy Chase, MD murdered inAlexandria, Egypt

But in fact, the survey we conducted in Egypt just this summer showed that a solidmajority of the Egyptian public distrusts American foreign policy and this includes

American democracy promotion activities in their country~ Mark Tessler, a professorof International Relations at the University of Michigan

Family: American killed inEgypt was a teacher

Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi demonstrate outside of the Rabia el-Adawiya Mosque on July 29 in Cairo. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's

Islamist president are holding rival demonstrations as both sides prepare for massive protestson July 30. Amr Nabil, AP


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This undated photo provided by the Pochter family shows Andrew Driscoll Pochter.(Photo: AP/Pochter family)

Andrew Pochter, of Chevy Chase, Md., was killed Friday inAlexandria during clashes between government supporters andopponents. His family said in a statement Saturday that he wasstabbed by a protester while observing the demonstrations.

"He went to Egypt because he cared profoundly about the MiddleEast. He had studied in the region, loved the culture, and plannedto live and work there in the pursuit of peace and understanding,"the statement said.

The country has been roiled by ongoing demonstrations betweenprotesters trying to oust President Mohammed Morsi andIslamists seeking to keep him in power. The U.S. StateDepartment has warned Americans against all but essentialtravel, and households have been stocking up on goods in casethe protests drag on.


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MORE:American student killed in Egypt

The 21-year-old spent his spring semester studying in Amman,Jordan, as part of the AMIDEAST Education Abroad Program andwas teaching in Egypt before returning in the fall to KenyonCollege in Ohio. He majored in religious studies, was active inHillel House the campus center for Jewish life and was amember of the rugby club and an organizer for the MiddleEastern Students Association, the college said.

Meryn Chimes, a New York University student who said she wasa friend of Pochter, recalled how he traveled to Morocco betweenhigh school and college and sent her excited letters about howmuch he loved it there.

"When he came back, he just had this passion for the MiddleEast," she said.

During his travels, she said, he would marvel at everything fromthe food to the people he encountered at marketplaces to theColonial architecture of Alexandria. She said he told her howmuch he loved teaching Egyptian children and how they workedso hard to master English.

"He said he hoped they liked him as a teacher, which I'm surethey did," she said.
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This undated photo provided by the Pochter family shows Andrew Driscoll Pochter.(Photo: AP/Pochter family)

She said they last spoke a few days ago.

"He really wanted to broaden people's perspective, especially inAmerica. He wanted people to see places the way he saw them,"said Chimes, noting how Pochter had spoken of potentiallybecoming a reporter.

"He saw the world in a way that I don't think anyone else did, andit was a really beautiful way," she added.

Lucas Pastorfield-Li, a friend from college, said he bonded withPochter over a shared interest in education and internationalaffairs. He said Pochter was soft-spoken and humble but also atalented musician who would weave international topics he dida college research project on the Muslim Brotherhood intofreestyle raps.


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"He had a way of just being way too wise beyond his years. I feellike most of the people in my generation are constantly trying tobe heard," said Pastorfield-Li, 20, adding, "He had an amazingway of just conveying wisdom in such a humble and kind of subtleway."

He said Pochter would have been the "perfect poster boy" for anyad campaign for the college.

"It's not just me right now that this is really affecting," he said. "Hewas such an important person to so many people at the school,and Kenyon's such a small school, someone like Andrew is goingto be a celebrity."

See: USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/29/american-killed-egypt/2476205/

See: AMIDEAST - http://www.amideast.org/ (Sponsored by GE, Lockheed-Martin,Boeing, USAID, US State Department)

See: Hillel House: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life - http://www.hillel.org/index

J Street and the Arab lobby

The connections between J Street and the Dark Side of the MiddleEast are becoming more and more evident. Recently it was revealedthat the anti-Zionist George Soros was a large contributor, although

J Street had categorically denied that until now. But even moreinteresting was the fact that the single largest contribution to JStreet in 2008-9 $811,697 came from an unknown woman inHong Kong, Connie Esdicul. Here she is with my favorite martial artsguy:
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The mysterious Consolacion Esdicul with the great Jackie Chan

Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street explained that Esdicul was an associateof Pittsburgh multimillionaire and software entrepreneur WilliamBenter, and contributed the money at his urging. Benter may havemade as much as $27 million a year by applying computer modeling

techniques to Hong Kong horse-racing, and has been called themost successful horse racing player in modern times. All thisappeared in my previous article, but now weve found out moreabout him.

An anonymous contributor to the Israeli scoops forum at rotter.net[Hebrew] noticed that Benter is also a member of the advisory boardof the Rand Corporations Center for Middle East Public Policy(CMEPP). This is interesting for several reasons.

CMEPPs board president, Richard Abdoo a former boardmember of the Arab-American Institute (AAI), who gave J Street PAC$11,500 in the 2008 cycle, is a director of AMIDEAST, aneducational organization that strengthens mutual understandingand cooperation between Americans and the peoples of the Middle
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East and North Africa (except Israel). AMIDEASTs primary funder isthe Saudi Aramco oil company.

Also sitting on the CMEPP advisory board is another AMIDEASTboard member, Odeh Aburdene. Aburdene was a Vice President ofOccidental Petroleum, and a member of the Task Force In Support ofArab Democracy (a group sponsored by the Council on ForeignRelations, along with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of Ground Zeromosque notoriety).

Others include Ray Irani, Occidental CEO. His wife, Ghada, is yetanother AMIDEAST director. And Nicholas Veliotes has a seat onthe boards of both J Street and AMIDEAST. This is like a 19th-century Russian novel.

The Rand Corporation has close ties with the CIA, anorganization that, together with the State Department, includessome of the most anti-Israel circles in the US government.Immediately prior to the 1967 war, the CIA advised President

Johnson not to airlift military supplies to Israel, although it wasimpossible to predict the unlikely event that Israel would succeed indestroying the Egyptian air force on the ground.

We are getting far away from the liberal Jews that Ben-Amiclaims as his constituency, arent we?

J Streets Saudi connections were documented by Lenny Ben-Davidin December 2009:

A member of J Streets advisory board, Judith Barnett [also anAMIDEAST director -- ed.], worked on aspects of the Saudi accountfor Qorvis in 2004. She was also one of the first contributors to JStreets PAC and was later joined in the PAC by Nancy Dutton, theSaudi Embassys Washington attorney; Lewis Elbinger, a U.S. StateDepartment ofcial who was based in Saudi Arabia; and Ray Close,the CIAs station chief in Saudi Arabia for 22 years who later went towork for Saudi intelligence bosses. Closes son Kenneth registeredat the Justice Department as a foreign agent, working for SaudiPrince Turki al-Faisal, the author of the Saudi peace plan.
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Beyond sharing support for the Saudi plan, the J Street-AAI financialand ideological ties also appear to be very tight. Richard Abdoo is amember of J Streets finance committee with its minimumcontribution of $10,000 to J Streets PAC. James Zogby recently

wrote in the Bahrain Gulf Daily, On October 25, [2009] the ArabAmerican Institute and J Street convened a joint meeting thatbrought leaders and activists from both communities together as anexpression of our shared commitment to advance a just andcomprehensive Middle East peace.

Saudi Arabia, AMIDEAST, the Rand Corporation, the CIA seriously,now, all you pro-Israel pro-peace types: are these the people thatyou should be supporting?

See: J Street and the Arab lobby - http://fresnozionism.org/2010/09/j-street-and-the-arab-lobby/

Andrew Pochter Is Killed as Egypt BurnsBy Abdallah Schleifer

The first Egyptian police report described Andrew Driscoll Pochter as an

American and a photojournalist.
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The 21-year-old student

from suburban Maryland was

not identified as being Jewish

because we Americans, unlike

Egyptians, do not carrygovernment IDs that identify

our religion. That in itself is a

great relief and advantage

when living or visiting

countries wracked by

sectarianism and bigotry like

Egypt is today.

The fact that Pochter was

taken for a journalist does

oer an important clue as to

who killed him and why.

He was reportedly killed

during an anti-government

rally that surged toward the

headquarters of President

Mohammed Morsis Muslim

Brotherhood party in the port

city of Alexandria.

Over the past few months, Muslim Brotherhood (MB) militants and at times theirallies from the Salifi sect have badly beaten up suspected journalists and in

particular photojournalists. They have been particularly aggressive in defending

various MB headquarters or MB demonstrations backing Morsi from attacks.

They have expressed particular hatred for the passionately anti-Morsi privately

owned Cairo press as well as a longer history of deep paranoia about the global

press corps.

Related Slain College Student Andrew Pochter Driven by Jewish Values to

Help Egypt Idealistic Jewish Student Killed in Egypt Violence

So it is important to note that Pochter was killed as anti-Morsi protesters were

trying to storm MB headquarters in Alexandria and were being beaten back by

MB militants defending their headquarters. That suggests they might have been

involved.
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As time passes, this sort of street violence escalates on both sides in Egypt.

Clubs replace stones, knives come into play alongside clubs, and in time pistols

and shotguns also surface, army steel helmets replace motorcyclist helmets and

killing at times trumps beatings.

Those who killed Pochter , whoever they were, would not have known he was

Jewish, even if they realized he was an American. In the Cairo street,

particularly, the average demonstrator on either side of the fence would not

jump to the conclusion that an American tourist could be Jewish. Quite the

contrary, they would tend to associate the Jew with the hooked nose, and payus

and long beard that they have likely come across in anti-Semitic screeds that

circulate widely here.

Of course, the Morsi government is seeking to blame its opponents for the

killing.

The Muslim Brotherhoods ofcial English website still alluding to Pochter as

a journalist, and making no reference to his being Jewish claims thatopposition protestors attacking its headquerters, set upon Pochter.

That is not inconceivable, given his appearance and the situation. Pochter wears

a beard as many MB youth do, which may have aroused suspicion. And if he was

taking pictures or videos of the protestors, he certainly might have become

object of suspicion and rage in a country polarized by mutual suspicion and

rage. Its very likely we will never know the full truth.

Pochter was in Alexandria via the good ofces of AMIDEAST, an American

educational foundation that has long encouraged educational exchange

programs involving American and Arab university students. Years ago in Beirut,

Lebanese leftists accused AMIDEAST of being covertly sponsored by the CIA.

If that unfounded charge ever filters into the MB, then Pochters presence as an

AMIDEAST exchange student will be cited as proof that his presence in Egypt is

part of some kind of American government conspiracy. His presence at the

opposition demonstration will likely be twisted and he may well be portrayed as

a pawn in some kind of Zionist-American global plot.

All these conspiracy theories and propaganda will likely gain strength as the

opposition demonstrations continue to gain force and a showdown looms on

the streets of Egypts major cities on Sunday, June 30.

Even the possibility of this smear campaign makes Pochters death all the moretragic.

From his familys Facebook statement that he cared profoundly about the

Middle East, and he planned to live and work there in the pursuit of peace and

understanding, one can infer that his intentions were good. His enrolment at

Kenyon College, associated with liberalism and tolerance, also suggest that he

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Two things are for sure: Pochters Egyptian elementary school students lost a

gifted role model. And Egypt is still burning.

See: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/179581/andrew-

pochter-is-killed-as-egypt-burns/#ixzz2XfIE3QiZ

U.S. Wins Release of NGO Workers, Aid toEgypt Still VulnerableBy David Elkins

WASHINGTON, Mar 1 2012 (IPS) - After weeks of political pressure from the U.S.,Egyptian officials announced Wednesday that the remaining employees of two U.S.

government-supported organisations facing a criminal investigation would be permittedto leave the country.

Although the indictments remain in effect, the decision casts light on the tenuous natureof non-profit and NGO work in Egypt and future levels of financial support from foreigndonors.

The announcement comes on the heels of intense diplomatic maneuvering last week,including a U.S. delegation to Cairo led by Senator John McCain, chairman of theInternational Republican Institute (IRI), an employer of several of the U.S. citizens nowfacing charges surrounding alleged involvement in illegally funded activities deemedharmful to the Egyptian state.

Sam Lahood, son of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Roy Lahood, is one of the 43that are slated for trial.

Prominent among discussions between U.S. and Egyptian officials was the fate ofEgypts roughly 1.5 billion dollars in U.S. aid appropriated for fiscal year 2012.

As negotiations between U.S. and Egyptian officials took place, three judges overseeingthe indictments recused themselves after an announcement that the court wouldadjourn until Apr. 26, pending further inquiry. The recusal was an apparent protest bythe judges to avoid perceptions of political meddling in the cases.

The charges stem from raids conducted by Egyptian officials in December 2011 thatended in multiple charges and confiscated property from offices of the NationalDemocratic Institute (NDI) and IRI Congressionally-financed organisations officiallytasked with nonpartisan efforts in democracy promotion.

Since the 1990s, IRI has been implicated in a number of attempted coups detat abroad,including a successful Haitian coup in 1994.
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Related IPS Articles

1 Egypt-US Standoff Could Hit 40,000 NGOs

2 NGO Prosecution Puts U.S.-Egyptian Ties at Risk3 EGYPT: Military Rulers Clamp Down on Civil Society

Several lawmakers here greeted the news with a mixed sense of jubilance andforeboding.

I want to recognise the efforts of the Egyptian interim ruling military government formaking the right decision in facilitating the release of these American NGO workers,Senator James Inhofe, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee and theCommittee on Foreign Relations, said Thursday.

The U.S. must continue our strong military-to-military relationship with Egypt I willcontinue to monitor the situation in Egypt closely and, should radicals highjack thedemocratic process, respond accordingly, Inhofe added.

Earlier this year, U.S. lawmakers voted to make financial aid contingent on continued,verifiable political reform in Egypt.

Elliot Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former member ofthe Bush administrations National Security Council, cast the recent announcement as asmall concession made by the Egyptian government in what he considers to be a seriesof egregious crackdowns on U.S. NGOs.

(T)he government of Egypt has not said that promoting democracy and human rights iswelcome, as it should be in any country seeking to build a democratic system, ratherthan considered to be a criminal offense In fact, the situation of NGO staff may still beworse in Egypt 2012, after the revolution, than it was under the Mubarak dictatorship.

If that turns out to be true, the Egyptian government should not be rewarded by a fullrenewal of our aid program, Abrams wrote on his blog Thursday.

Some were more critical of the decision to lift travel restrictions.

Erratic due process is blatantly irreconcilable with independent judiciary and genuinedemocracy, Mohammad ElBaradei, former candidate in Egypts presidential electionsset forMay 2012, said in his Twitter feed on Thursday.

Despite the intensifying rhetoric from both U.S. and Egyptian officials about the role ofNGOs in Egyptian civil society, thousands of organisations based out of Egypt that workon a spectrum of issues from public health to environmental protection have landed in
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the middle of a debate about foreign financing, the outcome of which may determine thefeasibility of their work in the coming months.

Under current Egyptian law, organisations are barred from receiving foreign fundingwithout official approval in what amounts to one of the worlds most restrictive set of

statutes regarding foreign and domestic NGOs. Much is left to the discretion of Egyptianmilitary authorities, particularly the Supreme Council of Armed Forces.

Todays action didnt go far enough. We have been calling for changes in the unfairlaws that oversee NGOs that really muzzle civil society. These are the old Mubarakregime rules and this just goes to show that Mubaraks rules are still in play Thespace for NGOs activity in Egypt is narrowed, Geoffrey Mock, an expert on Egypt at

Amnesty International, told IPS.

The state of emergency has to go. If the state of emergency goes, if the associationslaw gets changed, there are things that can happen that can open Egypt to a new

political future and there are still people in Egypt to make that happen, Mock added.

Questioned on how the indictments will effect the U.S. State Departments report onpolitical in transition in Egypt an assessment U.S. lawmakers will use to decidewhether or not Egypt receives the Obama administrations aid requests for this year State Department Press Secretary Victoria Nuland avoided making a definitiveappraisal.

I am not going to speak to how the decisions will be made, when the time comes Wecontinue to want to see the NGO situation settled in a manner that allows all NGOs, ourown, European NGOs, other international NGOs and Egyptian NGOs to be registered.

We think thats part and parcel of the democratic transition, Nuland said on Thursday.

Many Americans believed that Egyptians would welcome American democracypromotion efforts since there has been broad public support in Egypt for bothdemocracy in general and the ouster of the anti- democratic regime of Hosni Mubarak inparticular, Mark Tessler, a professor of International Relations at the University ofMichigan, said Thursday.

But in fact, the survey we conducted in Egypt just this summer showed that asolid majority of the Egyptian public distrusts American foreign policy and thisincludes American democracy promotion activities in their country

However laudable their objectives and in Egypt at least, however congruent with thegoals of the vast majority of ordinary men and women these groups will be viewed theway U.S. foreign policy is viewed, and in Egypt that view is not favourable, Tessleradded.

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If you look at whos the president of the National DemocraticInstitute, its KennethWollack. Kenneth Wollack was a legislativedirector for AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) in

the 1970s.

Everywhere you look, for example, there are groups online such ascyberdissidents.org which supports pro-democracy activists in the

Arab world and in Iran. It sounds very good but look at whofounded this group.

This was set up by the Adelson Institute which was located at theShalem Center in Jerusalem. It is backed by people like Sheldon

Adelson and Ronald Lauder. These are close friends of BenjaminNetanyahu.

It was chaired by Natan Sharansky. Natan Sharansky, who posesas a human rights activist, resigned from Ariel Sharonsgovernment over the withdrawal from Gaza. He chaired a group

called onejerusalem.org which rejects Palestinian sovereignty overany part of Jerusalem (al-Quds).

These are the kinds of people that are supporting the dissidents inthe Arab world and in Iran.

Source: Press TV Interview with Maidhc Cathail

Video Israel sowing discord in Middle East Press TV Interviewwith Maidhc Cathail

See: Fake Democracy Revolutions CANVAS, USIP/ICNC, Washington, Egypt,

and OWS Plus: Israel did 9/11 - http://wp.me/pPnn7-vW
http://wp.me/pPnn7-vWhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdIBwODM18http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdIBwODM18http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdIBwODM18http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/05/press-tv-interview-with-maidhc-o-cathail-video/http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/05/press-tv-interview-with-maidhc-o-cathail-video/http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/05/press-tv-interview-with-maidhc-o-cathail-video/http://www.onejerusalem.org/http://cyberdissidents.org/http://cyberdissidents.org/http://wp.me/pPnn7-vWhttp://wp.me/pPnn7-vWhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdIBwODM18http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdIBwODM18http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdIBwODM18http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdIBwODM18http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/05/press-tv-interview-with-maidhc-o-cathail-video/http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/05/press-tv-interview-with-maidhc-o-cathail-video/http://www.onejerusalem.org/http://www.onejerusalem.org/http://cyberdissidents.org/http://cyberdissidents.org/


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Middle East Institute - Columbia University - Jobs

Columbia University is an equal opportunity /affirmative action employer.

Below is a list of employers who work in or on the Middle East:

THINK TANKS:

Employer: AMIDEAST: AMERICAN-MIDEAST EDUCATIONAL AND TRAININGSERVICESWebsite: http://www.amideast.org/Location: Washington, D.C. but has offices throughout the Middle EastComments: America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. (AMIDEAST) is aprivate, nonprofit organization that strengthens mutual understanding and cooperationbetween Americans and the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa.

Employer: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EXCHANGES BOARDWebsite: http://www.irex.org/Location: Washington, D.C.Comments: IREX activities in the Middle East and North Africa support academic andprofessional research, provide study and internship opportunities for professionalbusinesswomen in the region, foster the development of civil society and professionalmedia, and support basic, secondary, and graduate educational development. Pleasesee below for more details.

Employer: NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Website: http://www.ndi.org/Location: Washington, D.C.Comments: The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) is anonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand democracy worldwide. Callingon a global network of volunteer experts, NDI provides practical assistance to civic andpolitical leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. Has a MiddleEast and North Africa Regional Project.

Employer: FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATIONWebsite: http://www.fpa.org/Location: New York, NY

Comments: The Foreign Policy Association is a non-profit organization dedicated toinspiring the American public to learn more about the world. FPA provides independentpublications, programs and forums to increase public awareness of, and foster popularparticipation in, matters relating to those policy issues.

Employer: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEWebsite: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/Location: Washington, D.C.
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/http://www.fpa.org/http://www.ndi.org/http://www.irex.org/http://www.irex.org/http://www.carnegieendowment.org/http://www.carnegieendowment.org/http://www.fpa.org/http://www.fpa.org/http://www.ndi.org/http://www.ndi.org/http://www.irex.org/http://www.irex.org/http://www.amideast.org/http://www.amideast.org/


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Comments: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofitorganization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting activeinternational engagement by the United States. The Carnegie Endowment has severalprograms which deal with the Middle East but no specific Middle East program. Itpublishes a monthly Arab Reform Bulletin

Employer: CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTSWebsite: http://www.cesr.org/Location: Brooklyn, N.Y.Comments: The Center for Economic and Social Rights aims to promote social justicethrough human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entirecommunities of dignity and even life itself, CESR promotes the universal right of everyhuman being to housing, education, health and a healthy environment, food, work, andan adequate standard of living.

Employer: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Website: http://www.cfr.org/Location: New York, NY but has an office in Washington, D.C.Comments: The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, national membershiporganization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing anddisseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers,

journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries,can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United Statesand other governments. Has a Middle East Studies Department and several programson the Middle East.

Employer: RAND

Website: http://www.rand.org/Location: Santa Monica, CAComments: RAND researchers and analysts work with decision-makers in both thepublic and private sectors to find solutions to today's difficult, sensitive, and importantproblems. Its programs and research areas are thematic but many apply to the MiddleEast such as Terrorism and Homeland Security and International Affairs.

Employer: BROOKINGS INSTITUTIONWebsite: http://www.brookings.edu/Location: Washington, D.C.Comments: The Brookings Institution, one of Washington's oldest think tanks, is an

independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, and publiceducation with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, governance, and metropolitanpolicy. Has many research programs which apply to the Middle East but mostly therenown Saban Center for Middle East Policy.

Employer: WASHINGTON INSTITUTE ON NEAR EAST POLICYWebsite: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/Location: Washington, D.C.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/http://www.brookings.edu/http://www.rand.org/http://www.cfr.org/http://cesr.org/adequate?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://www.cesr.org/http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/http://www.brookings.edu/http://www.brookings.edu/http://www.rand.org/http://www.rand.org/http://www.cfr.org/http://www.cfr.org/http://cesr.org/adequate?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/adequate?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/work?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/work?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/food?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/food?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/healthyenvironment?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/healthyenvironment?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/health?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/health?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/education?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/education?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/housing?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://cesr.org/housing?PHPSESSID=9e772f556c1739e11e5a70389854311dhttp://www.cesr.org/http://www.cesr.org/


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Comments: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a public educationalfoundation dedicated to scholarly research and informed debate on U.S. interests in theMiddle East. Through a comprehensive program of research, seminars, conferences,publications, and study tours to the Middle East, The Washington Institute providespolicymakers, diplomats, and journalists with fresh thinking and new ideas to promote

peace, security, and stability in one of the world's most volatile regions.

Employer: EASTWEST INSTITUTEWebsite: http://www.iews.org/Location: New York, NY and Brussels, BelgiumComments: EWI is an independent, not-for-profit, European-American institutionworking to address the most dangerous fault lines of the 21st Century and to help buildfair, prosperous and peaceful civil societies in those areas. It has a program calledMiddle East Bridge.

Employer: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE

Website: http://www.mideasti.org/Location: Washington, D.C.Comments: The Middle East Institute is an important conduit of information betweenMiddle Eastern nations and American Policy makers and organizations. It has worked toincrease knowledge of the Middle East among U.S. citizens and to promoteunderstanding between the peoples of the Middle East and America.

Employer: Middle East Policy CouncilWebsite: http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.aspLocation: Washington, D.C.Comments: The MEPC, since its formation in 1981, has provided political analysis of

issues involving the greater Middle East. Through its programs, publications and Website, the Council strives to ensure that a full range of U.S. interests and views areconsidered by policy makers.

Employer: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (CSIS)Website: http://www.csis.org/Location: Washington, D.C.Comments: CSIS provides world leaders with strategic insights on - and policy solutionsto - current and emerging global issues.

GOVERNMENT:

Employer: STATE DEPARTMENT, NEAR EASTERN AFFAIRSWebsite: http://www.state.gov/p/nea/Location: Washington, D.C.Comments: The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs deals with U.S. foreign policy and U.S.diplomatic relations with these countries and geographic entities: Algeria, Bahrain,
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/http://www.csis.org/http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.asphttp://www.mideasti.org/http://www.state.gov/p/nea/http://www.state.gov/p/nea/http://www.csis.org/http://www.csis.org/http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.asphttp://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.asphttp://www.mideasti.org/http://www.mideasti.org/http://www.iews.org/http://www.iews.org/


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Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, SaudiArabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

Employer: STATE DEPARTMENT, INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH (INR)Website: http://www.state.gov/s/inr/

Location: Washington D.C.Comments: The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), drawing on all-sourceintelligence, provides value-added independent analysis of events to Departmentpolicymakers, ensures that intelligence activities support foreign policy and nationalsecurity purposes; and serves as the focal point in the Department for ensuring policyreview of sensitive counterintelligence and law enforcement activities.

Employer: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA)Website: http://www.cia.gov/index.htmlLocation: Langley, VAComments: The CIA accomplishes its mission by:

Collecting intelligenceProviding relevant, timely, and objective all-source analysisConducting covert action at the direction of the President to preempt threats or achieveUnited States policy objectives.

Employer: STATE DEPARTMENTWebsite: http://www.state.gov/Location: Washington, D.C.Comments: Most Departments in the State Department work on the Middle East even iftheir mission is not specific to the Middle East.

Employer: STATE DEPARTMENT, POLICY PLANNINGWebsite: http://www.state.gov/s/p/Location: Washington, D.C.Comments: The Policy Planning Staff serves as a source of independent policy analysisand advice for the Secretary of State. The Policy Planning Staff's mission is to take alonger term, strategic view of global trends and frame recommendations for theSecretary of State to advance U.S. interests and American values.

MEDIA:

Employer: MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (MEMRI)Website: http://www.memri.org/Location: Washington, D.C.Comments: MEMRI bridges the language gap between the West and the Middle East,providing timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media, as well as originalanalysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in theMiddle East.
http://www.memri.org/http://www.state.gov/s/p/http://www.state.gov/http://www.cia.gov/index.htmlhttp://www.state.gov/s/inr/http://www.memri.org/http://www.memri.org/http://www.state.gov/s/p/http://www.state.gov/s/p/http://www.state.gov/http://www.state.gov/http://www.cia.gov/index.htmlhttp://www.cia.gov/index.htmlhttp://www.state.gov/s/inr/http://www.state.gov/s/inr/


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Employer: MIDDLE EAST JOURNALWebsite: http://www.mideasti.org/programs/programs_journal.htmlLocation: Washington, D.C.Comments: The Middle East Journalpublished quarterly since 1947 by the Middle

East Instituteprovides original and objective research and analysis, as well as sourcematerial, on the area from Morocco to Pakistan and including Central Asia.

Employer: MIDDLE EAST REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (MERIA)Website: http://meria.idc.ac.il/Comments: The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) represents a newapproach to the study of the modern Middle East. Taking advantage of new computertechnology, MERIA reaches over 17,000 readers in more than 100 countries, serving ahigh-level audience of Middle East experts, scholars, teachers, students, officials,

journalists, and people intensely interested in the region

Employer: MIDDLE EAST POLICYWebsite: http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.aspLocation: Washington, D.C.Comments: Middle East Policy provides a forum for viewpoints on recent developmentsthat affect U.S.-Middle East Policy.

Employer : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIESWebsite: http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/history/faculty/journals.htmlLocation: Washington, D.C.Comments: IJMES is the premier journal in the field of Middle East Studies in NorthAmerica. The journal publishes articles and reviews reflecting state of the art research

on the area encompassing the Arab World, Iran, Turkey, the Caucasus, Afghanistan,Israel, Transoxania, and Muslim South Asia in the humanities and the social sciencedisciplines.

Employer: AL ARABYAWebsite: http://www.alarabiya.net/english.aspxLocation: Washington, D.C. and Dubai.Comments: Al Arabiya, an omnipresent news station, with a large network of reporters,continuously present all around the five continents, caters to the Arab audience interestin politics, business, current affairs, finance, sports, science, lifestyle, in-depthdocumentaries, in-depth talk-show programs, and social and educational programs. It

publishes in Arabic and in English.

Employer : MIDDLE EAST DAILYWebsite : http://www.middleeastdaily.com/Location: New York, NY and otherComments: Part of the World News Network.
http://www.middleeastdaily.com/http://www.alarabiya.net/english.aspxhttp://www.georgetown.edu/departments/history/faculty/journals.htmlhttp://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.asphttp://meria.idc.ac.il/http://www.mideasti.org/programs/programs_journal.htmlhttp://www.middleeastdaily.com/http://www.middleeastdaily.com/http://www.alarabiya.net/english.aspxhttp://www.alarabiya.net/english.aspxhttp://www.georgetown.edu/departments/history/faculty/journals.htmlhttp://www.georgetown.edu/departments/history/faculty/journals.htmlhttp://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.asphttp://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.asphttp://meria.idc.ac.il/http://meria.idc.ac.il/http://www.mideasti.org/programs/programs_journal.htmlhttp://www.mideasti.org/programs/programs_journal.html


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