Young Jewish Pro-Democracy NGO worker from Chevy Chase, MD murdered in Alexandria, Egypt But in fact, the survey

we conducted in Egypt just this summer showed that a solid majority of the Egyptian public distrusts American foreign policy and this includes American democracy promotion activities in their country ~ Mark Tessler, a professor of International Relations at the University of Michigan

Family: American killed in Egypt was a teacher

Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi demonstrate outside of the Rabia elAdawiya 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 protests on July 30. Amr Nabil, AP

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 in Alexandria during clashes between government supporters and opponents. His family said in a statement Saturday that he was stabbed by a protester while observing the demonstrations. "He went to Egypt because he cared profoundly about the Middle East. He had studied in the region, loved the culture, and planned to live and work there in the pursuit of peace and understanding," the statement said. The country has been roiled by ongoing demonstrations between protesters trying to oust President Mohammed Morsi and Islamists seeking to keep him in power. The U.S. State Department has warned Americans against all but essential travel, and households have been stocking up on goods in case the protests drag on.

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 and was teaching in Egypt before returning in the fall to Kenyon College in Ohio. He majored in religious studies, was active in Hillel House the campus center for Jewish life and was a member of the rugby club and an organizer for the Middle Eastern Students Association, the college said. Meryn Chimes, a New York University student who said she was a friend of Pochter, recalled how he traveled to Morocco between high school and college and sent her excited letters about how much he loved it there. "When he came back, he just had this passion for the Middle East," she said. During his travels, she said, he would marvel at everything from the food to the people he encountered at marketplaces to the Colonial architecture of Alexandria. She said he told her how much he loved teaching Egyptian children and how they worked so hard to master English. "He said he hoped they liked him as a teacher, which I'm sure they did," she said.

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 in America. He wanted people to see places the way he saw them," said Chimes, noting how Pochter had spoken of potentially becoming a reporter. "He saw the world in a way that I don't think anyone else did, and it was a really beautiful way," she added. Lucas Pastorfield-Li, a friend from college, said he bonded with Pochter over a shared interest in education and international affairs. He said Pochter was soft-spoken and humble but also a talented musician who would weave international topics he did a college research project on the Muslim Brotherhood into freestyle raps.

"He had a way of just being way too wise beyond his years. I feel like most of the people in my generation are constantly trying to be heard," said Pastorfield-Li, 20, adding, "He had an amazing way of just conveying wisdom in such a humble and kind of subtle way." He said Pochter would have been the "perfect poster boy" for any ad campaign for the college. "It's not just me right now that this is really affecting," he said. "He was such an important person to so many people at the school, and Kenyon's such a small school, someone like Andrew is going to be a celebrity."
See: USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/29/americankilled-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 Middle East are becoming more and more evident. Recently it was revealed that the anti-Zionist George Soros was a large contributor, although J Street had categorically denied that until now. But even more interesting was the fact that the single largest contribution to J Street in 2008-9 $811,697 came from an unknown woman in Hong Kong, Connie Esdicul. Here she is with my favorite martial arts guy:

The mysterious Consolacion Esdicul with the great Jackie Chan

Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street explained that Esdicul was an associate of Pittsburgh multimillionaire and software entrepreneur William Benter, and contributed the money at his urging. Benter may have made as much as $27 million a year by applying computer modeling techniques to Hong Kong horse-racing, and has been called the most successful horse racing player in modern times. All this appeared in my previous article, but now weve found out more about him. An anonymous contributor to the Israeli scoops forum at rotter.net [Hebrew] noticed that Benter is also a member of the advisory board of the Rand Corporations Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP). This is interesting for several reasons. CMEPPs board president, Richard Abdoo a former board member of the Arab-American Institute (AAI), who gave J Street PAC $11,500 in the 2008 cycle, is a director of AMIDEAST, an educational organization that strengthens mutual understanding and cooperation between Americans and the peoples of the Middle

East and North Africa (except Israel). AMIDEASTs primary funder is the Saudi Aramco oil company. Also sitting on the CMEPP advisory board is another AMIDEAST board member, Odeh Aburdene. Aburdene was a Vice President of Occidental Petroleum, and a member of the Task Force In Support of Arab Democracy (a group sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, along with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of Ground Zero mosque notoriety). Others include Ray Irani, Occidental CEO. His wife, Ghada, is yet another AMIDEAST director. And Nicholas Veliotes has a seat on the boards of both J Street and AMIDEAST. This is like a 19thcentury Russian novel. The Rand Corporation has close ties with the CIA, an organization that, together with the State Department, includes some 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 was impossible to predict the unlikely event that Israel would succeed in destroying the Egyptian air force on the ground. We are getting far away from the liberal Jews that Ben-Ami claims as his constituency, arent we? J Streets Saudi connections were documented by Lenny Ben-David in December 2009: A member of J Streets advisory board, Judith Barnett [also an AMIDEAST director -- ed.], worked on aspects of the Saudi account for Qorvis in 2004. She was also one of the rst contributors to J Streets PAC and was later joined in the PAC by Nancy Dutton, the Saudi Embassys Washington attorney; Lewis Elbinger, a U.S. State Department official who was based in Saudi Arabia; and Ray Close, the CIAs station chief in Saudi Arabia for 22 years who later went to work for Saudi intelligence bosses. Closes son Kenneth registered at the Justice Department as a foreign agent, working for Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, the author of the Saudi peace plan.

Beyond sharing support for the Saudi plan, the J Street-AAI nancial and ideological ties also appear to be very tight. Richard Abdoo is a member of J Streets nance committee with its minimum contribution of $10,000 to J Streets PAC. James Zogby recently wrote in the Bahrain Gulf Daily, On October 25, [2009] the Arab American Institute and J Street convened a joint meeting that brought leaders and activists from both communities together as an expression of our shared commitment to advance a just and comprehensive Middle East peace. Saudi Arabia, AMIDEAST, the Rand Corporation, the CIA seriously, now, all you pro-Israel pro-peace types: are these the people that you should be supporting?
See: J Street and the Arab lobby - http://fresnozionism.org/2010/09/j-street-and-thearab-lobby/

Andrew Pochter Is Killed as Egypt Burns

By Abdallah Schleifer The rst Egyptian police report described Andrew Driscoll Pochter as an American and a photojournalist.

The 21-year-old student from suburban Maryland was not identied as being Jewish because we Americans, unlike Egyptians, do not carry government 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 offer 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 their allies from the Sali 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.

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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.

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 official English website still alluding to Pochter as a journalist, and making no reference to his being Jewish claims that opposition 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 offices 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 lters 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 more tragic. 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 came to Egypt out of seless volunteerism.

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

U.S. Wins Release of NGO Workers, Aid to Egypt Still Vulnerable

By 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 permitted to leave the country. Although the indictments remain in effect, the decision casts light on the tenuous nature of non-profit and NGO work in Egypt and future levels of financial support from foreign donors. 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 the International Republican Institute (IRI), an employer of several of the U.S. citizens now facing charges surrounding alleged involvement in illegally funded activities deemed harmful to the Egyptian state. Sam Lahood, son of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Roy Lahood, is one of the 43 that are slated for trial. Prominent among discussions between U.S. and Egyptian officials was the fate of Egypts 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 overseeing the indictments recused themselves after an announcement that the court would adjourn until Apr. 26, pending further inquiry. The recusal was an apparent protest by the judges to avoid perceptions of political meddling in the cases. The charges stem from raids conducted by Egyptian officials in December 2011 that ended in multiple charges and confiscated property from offices of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and IRI Congressionally-financed organisations officially tasked with non- partisan 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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1 2 3 Egypt-US Standoff Could Hit 40,000 NGOs NGO Prosecution Puts U.S.-Egyptian Ties at Risk EGYPT: Military Rulers Clamp Down on Civil Society

Several lawmakers here greeted the news with a mixed sense of jubilance and foreboding. I want to recognise the efforts of the Egyptian interim ruling military government for making the right decision in facilitating the release of these American NGO workers, Senator James Inhofe, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Foreign Relations, said Thursday. The U.S. must continue our strong military-to-military relationship with Egypt I will continue to monitor the situation in Egypt closely and, should radicals highjack the democratic 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 of the Bush administrations National Security Council, cast the recent announcement as a small concession made by the Egyptian government in what he considers to be a series of egregious crackdowns on U.S. NGOs. (T)he government of Egypt has not said that promoting democracy and human rights is welcome, as it should be in any country seeking to build a democratic system, rather than considered to be a criminal offense In fact, the situation of NGO staff may still be worse 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 full renewal 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 genuine democracy, Mohammad ElBaradei, former candidate in Egypts presidential elections set for May 2012, said in his Twitter feed on Thursday. Despite the intensifying rhetoric from both U.S. and Egyptian officials about the role of NGOs in Egyptian civil society, thousands of organisations based out of Egypt that work on a spectrum of issues from public health to environmental protection have landed in

the middle of a debate about foreign financing, the outcome of which may determine the feasibility of their work in the coming months. Under current Egyptian law, organisations are barred from receiving foreign funding without 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 Egyptian military authorities, particularly the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. Todays action didnt go far enough. We have been calling for changes in the unfair laws that oversee NGOs that really muzzle civil society. These are the old Mubarak regime rules and this just goes to show that Mubaraks rules are still in play The space 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 associations law 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 on political in transition in Egypt an assessment U.S. lawmakers will use to decide whether or not Egypt receives the Obama administrations aid requests for this year State Department Press Secretary Victoria Nuland avoided making a definitive appraisal. I am not going to speak to how the decisions will be made, when the time comes We continue to want to see the NGO situation settled in a manner that allows all NGOs, our own, 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 democracy promotion efforts since there has been broad public support in Egypt for both democracy in general and the ouster of the anti- democratic regime of Hosni Mubarak in particular, Mark Tessler, a professor of International Relations at the University of Michigan, said Thursday. But in fact, the survey we conducted in Egypt just this summer showed that a solid majority of the Egyptian public distrusts American foreign policy and this includes American democracy promotion activities in their country However laudable their objectives and in Egypt at least, however congruent with the goals of the vast majority of ordinary men and women these groups will be viewed the way U.S. foreign policy is viewed, and in Egypt that view is not favourable, Tessler added. See: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/03/u-s-wins-release-of-ngo-workers-aid-to-egypt-stillvulnerable/

If you look at whos the president of the National Democratic Institute, its Kenneth Wollack. Kenneth Wollack was a legislative director for AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) in the 1970s. Everywhere you look, for example, there are groups online such as cyberdissidents.org which supports pro-democracy activists in the Arab world and in Iran. It sounds very good but look at who founded this group. This was set up by the Adelson Institute which was located at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. It is backed by people like Sheldon Adelson and Ronald Lauder. These are close friends of Benjamin Netanyahu. It was chaired by Natan Sharansky. Natan Sharansky, who poses as a human rights activist, resigned from Ariel Sharons government over the withdrawal from Gaza. He chaired a group called onejerusalem.org which rejects Palestinian sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem (al-Quds). These are the kinds of people that are supporting the dissidents in the Arab world and in Iran. Source: Press TV Interview with Maidhc Cathail Video Israel sowing discord in Middle East Press TV Interview with Maidhc Cathail
See: Fake Democracy Revolutions CANVAS, USIP/ICNC, Washington, Egypt, and OWS Plus: Israel did 9/11 - http://wp.me/pPnn7-vW

Middle East Institute - Columbia University - Jobs Columbia University is an equal opportunity /afrmative action employer. Below is a list of employers who work in or on the Middle East: THINK TANKS: Employer: AMIDEAST: AMERICAN-MIDEAST EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING SERVICES Website: http://www.amideast.org/ Location: Washington, D.C. but has ofces throughout the Middle East Comments: America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. (AMIDEAST) is a private, nonprot organization that strengthens mutual understanding and cooperation between Americans and the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. Employer: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EXCHANGES BOARD Website: http://www.irex.org/ Location: Washington, D.C. Comments: IREX activities in the Middle East and North Africa support academic and professional research, provide study and internship opportunities for professional businesswomen in the region, foster the development of civil society and professional media, and support basic, secondary, and graduate educational development. Please see 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 a nonprot organization working to strengthen and expand democracy worldwide. Calling on a global network of volunteer experts, NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. Has a Middle East and North Africa Regional Project. Employer: FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION Website: http://www.fpa.org/ Location: New York, NY Comments: The Foreign Policy Association is a non-prot organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. FPA provides independent publications, programs and forums to increase public awareness of, and foster popular participation in, matters relating to those policy issues. Employer: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE Website: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/ Location: Washington, D.C.

Comments: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprot organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. The Carnegie Endowment has several programs which deal with the Middle East but no specic Middle East program. It publishes a monthly Arab Reform Bulletin Employer: CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS Website: http://www.cesr.org/ Location: Brooklyn, N.Y. Comments: The Center for Economic and Social Rights aims to promote social justice through human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities of dignity and even life itself, CESR promotes the universal right of every human being to housing, education, health and a healthy environment, food, work, and an adequate standard of living. Employer: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS Website: http://www.cfr.org/ Location: New York, NY but has an ofce in Washington, D.C. Comments: The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating 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 States and other governments. Has a Middle East Studies Department and several programs on the Middle East. Employer: RAND Website: http://www.rand.org/ Location: Santa Monica, CA Comments: RAND researchers and analysts work with decision-makers in both the public and private sectors to nd solutions to today's difcult, sensitive, and important problems. Its programs and research areas are thematic but many apply to the Middle East such as Terrorism and Homeland Security and International Affairs. Employer: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Website: 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 public education with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, governance, and metropolitan policy. Has many research programs which apply to the Middle East but mostly the renown Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Employer: WASHINGTON INSTITUTE ON NEAR EAST POLICY Website: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/ Location: Washington, D.C.

Comments: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a public educational foundation dedicated to scholarly research and informed debate on U.S. interests in the Middle East. Through a comprehensive program of research, seminars, conferences, publications, and study tours to the Middle East, The Washington Institute provides policymakers, 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 INSTITUTE Website: http://www.iews.org/ Location: New York, NY and Brussels, Belgium Comments: EWI is an independent, not-for-prot, European-American institution working to address the most dangerous fault lines of the 21st Century and to help build fair, prosperous and peaceful civil societies in those areas. It has a program called Middle 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 between Middle Eastern nations and American Policy makers and organizations. It has worked to increase knowledge of the Middle East among U.S. citizens and to promote understanding between the peoples of the Middle East and America. Employer: Middle East Policy Council Website: http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.asp Location: 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 Web site, the Council strives to ensure that a full range of U.S. interests and views are considered 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 solutions to - current and emerging global issues. GOVERNMENT: Employer: STATE DEPARTMENT, NEAR EASTERN AFFAIRS Website: 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,

Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 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-source intelligence, provides value-added independent analysis of events to Department policymakers, ensures that intelligence activities support foreign policy and national security purposes; and serves as the focal point in the Department for ensuring policy review of sensitive counterintelligence and law enforcement activities. Employer: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) Website: http://www.cia.gov/index.html Location: Langley, VA Comments: The CIA accomplishes its mission by: Collecting intelligence Providing relevant, timely, and objective all-source analysis Conducting covert action at the direction of the President to preempt threats or achieve United States policy objectives. Employer: STATE DEPARTMENT Website: http://www.state.gov/ Location: Washington, D.C. Comments: Most Departments in the State Department work on the Middle East even if their mission is not specic to the Middle East. Employer: STATE DEPARTMENT, POLICY PLANNING Website: http://www.state.gov/s/p/ Location: Washington, D.C. Comments: The Policy Planning Staff serves as a source of independent policy analysis and advice for the Secretary of State. The Policy Planning Staff's mission is to take a longer term, strategic view of global trends and frame recommendations for the Secretary 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 original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.

Employer: MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL Website: http://www.mideasti.org/programs/programs_journal.html Location: 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 source material, 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 new approach to the study of the modern Middle East. Taking advantage of new computer technology, MERIA reaches over 17,000 readers in more than 100 countries, serving a high-level audience of Middle East experts, scholars, teachers, students, ofcials, journalists, and people intensely interested in the region Employer: MIDDLE EAST POLICY Website: http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal/journal.asp Location: Washington, D.C. Comments: Middle East Policy provides a forum for viewpoints on recent developments that affect U.S.-Middle East Policy. Employer : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES Website: http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/history/faculty/journals.html Location: Washington, D.C. Comments: IJMES is the premier journal in the eld of Middle East Studies in North America. The journal publishes articles and reviews reecting 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 science disciplines. Employer: AL ARABYA Website: http://www.alarabiya.net/english.aspx Location: Washington, D.C. and Dubai. Comments: Al Arabiya, an omnipresent news station, with a large network of reporters, continuously present all around the ve continents, caters to the Arab audience interest in politics, business, current affairs, nance, sports, science, lifestyle, in-depth documentaries, in-depth talk-show programs, and social and educational programs. It publishes in Arabic and in English. Employer : MIDDLE EAST DAILY Website : http://www.middleeastdaily.com/ Location: New York, NY and other Comments: Part of the World News Network.

See: Middle East Institute - Columbia University - Jobs - http://www.mei.columbia.edu/ jobs.shtml