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the region today. Burson-Marsteller just published its annual Arab Youth Survey, which found that more young Arabs said they would like to live in the United Arab Emirates than any other Arab state, because of how it has built Dubai and Abu Dhabi into global hubs and job engines. Leadership matters. Education reformer

expected to press Moscow and Beijing to increase pressure on Assad by backing an arms embargo and other punitive measures. Mona Yacoubian, a former State Department official and consultant on the Middle East, said Russia is key to any strategy for punishing an Assad regime that until now has had few incentives

peo concludes Israel / Sudan / Bahrain / United Arab Emirates / Oman trip — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo concludes trip to Israel, Sudan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, with agenda including meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss 'regional security issues related to Iran's malicious

ng that Secretary of State Pompeo's speech to the RNC was an "egregious violation" of the Hatch Act. The AP says "the speech shattered longstanding State Department precedent and even went against the guidance Pompeo issued to American diplomats last month." WPost Style Column Considers Conway's Use Of "Excuse

They Were Trafficked To Syria. The Washington Post (1/24, McQue, 10.52M) cites interviews with 17 Filipinas who say they were "recruited to work in the United Arab Emirates" and were "trafficked to Syria to work as maids, at times subjected to physical and sexual attacks by their employers and denied the salaries they

force to the Biden administration that signals Beijing's plans to maintain pressure on Taiwan even as it calls for a reset with the United States." State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement that the US "notes with concern the pattern of ongoing P.R.C. attempts to intimidate its neighbors, includi

India. Moreover, none of the current disputes between Iran and its neighbors (such as the one over ownership of some small islands also claimed by the United Arab Emirates) come close to possessing the nation-defining significance that the Kashmir conflict poses for both Pakistan and India. Nuclear weapons matter inso

li government. Sen. Charles Schumer used even stronger language in 2010 when he responded to "something I have never heard before," from the Obama State Department, "which is, the relationship of Israel and the United States depends on the pace of the negotiations. That is terrible. That is a dagger." Sen. Jo

d lobbying campaign by AIPAC. The pro-Israel group has sat out some recent potential fights over large- scale U.S. weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in order to focus all of its energy on Iran. During its annual conference in February, AIPAC sent hundreds of volunteers to Capitol Hill to persona

0 'Hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at The Brookings Institution. Jeremy Shapiro is a visiting fellow at Brookings and a former State Department official. Ar6cle 6 The Huffington Post Palestinians in a Jewish State Nadim Nashif October 15 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's much

here, plaintiffs alleged that Dubai Islamic Bank provided banking services to al-Qaeda, even as the United States government had provided warnings to the United Arab Emirates in 1999, SPA199-200 (Terrorist Attacks IV). These allegations, the district court concluded, “g[a]ve rise to the inference that [Dubai Islamic Bank]

alias or agent.” Goldberg, 660 F. Supp. 2d at 432; cf Nat’l Council of Resistance of Iran, 373 F.3d at 157-58 (“Just as it is silly to suppose” that State Department designations of terrorist organizations did not survive organizational name changes, “so too it is implausible to think that Congress” did not “autho

ld of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, the State Department poured hundreds of millions into a new public- di

haps the most extensive qualitative study of Arab sentiment about America in the post-9/11 era. With two colleagues, I traveled across the Arab world—the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco—for two weeks on what we called a “listening research tour,” interviewing scores of young Arabs individually, in focus g

through formal discussions with U.S. officials at the State Department, National Security Council, and Department of Def

ly been understood, to Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner and his mobile phone. From the perspective of the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Israel (there is an Israeli angle to the George Nader story, but it isn't yet entirely clear), and Egypt, there was an entirely rational reason to s