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The Middle East Institute's Department of Language and Regional Studies

Founded in 1953, The Middle East Institute's Department of Language and Regional Studies offers multiple levels of nationally accredited language training in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish. Classes especially focused on interaction with mainstream Arabic Media sources are also offered by the department. Employees of government agencies, foreign embassies, international consulting organizations, corporations, as well as local students frequently benefit from MEI language training. In addition to language training, the Department of Language and Regional Studies offers a variety of courses on the history, politics, and culture of the Middle East. Classes are offered evenings and weekends year-round at the Middle East Institute’s Dupont Circle location. Private and group tutoring sessions are available in all languages for affordable hourly rates. All classes offered by the Department of Language and Regional Studies are taught by MEI’s diverse and accomplished faculty.

The Middle East Institute

The Middle East Institute's Department of Language and Regional Studies

Saudi-U.S. Relations Information Service

The Saudi-U.S. Relations Information Service (SUSRIS) project — an independent, private-sector information resource – offers objective, comprehensive news and information on the history, breadth and depth of the US-Saudi Arabia relationship.

SUSRIS and its e-newsletters provide information from a variety of sources that would otherwise be difficult for most readers to uncover. In addition, SUSRIS offers original materials such as interviews, essays and more. SUSRIS endeavors to provide information and resources that enable a clear assessment of this important relationship as well as contribute to a better understanding between the people of the United States and Saudi Arabia.

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GulfWire

GulfWire, a publication of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and the U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee, debuted in July 1999 as a weekly emailed newsletter followed in November 1999 by its companion web site, Arabialink.com. The combination allowed thousands of professionals who follow developments in the Gulf region to receive a comprehensive source of news, business and analysis in their email inbox, as well as having an on-line repository for archives and related resources.

In 2001 the GulfWire e-newsletter was renamed GulfWire Digest and two new resources were added to the family: GulfWire Perspectives, an e-newsletter providing material too lengthy for the Digest, such as essays, background briefings, transcripts and insightful analytical reports; and the Voices of the Region, an e-newsletter providing commentary from leading figures and media in the Gulf region.

The National Council ceased publication of GulfWire in 2004, but the GulfWire archives from 1999 to 2004 can still be accessed at arabialink.com/gulfwire/.

GulfWire Archive

CNI: Jerusalem Calling

About the show:

CNI's Jerusalem Calling brings you broadest unfiltered report on US-Middle East news and developments.

Broadcast live every Thursday from
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Show Info:

The Council for the National Interests' Jerusalem Calling is the world-wide leader in Middle East peace talk radio. With expert commentary, caller participation, and interviews with world leaders and scholars, CNI's Jerusalem Calling has the broadest unfiltered report on US-Middle East news and developments. The Council for the National Interest is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots organization advocating a new direction for U.S. Middle East policy. The Council for the National interest is partnered with its sister organization the Council for the National Interest Foundation in order for the organizations to do a broad range of work in educating Americans about Middle East Foreign Policy and lobbying to promote even handed policies.

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United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Director of the Representative Office in New York, Andrew Whitley, and CNI board member Anna Baltzer discuss the political and social barriers to relief and reconstruction efforts in the Occupied Territories.

Former Palestinian Presidential Candidate and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Mustafa Barghouti and CNI Board Member Dr. E Faye Williams discuss the state of the peace process, issues for Palestinians, Jerusalem, and other topics of ongoing concern.

Ha’aretz columnist Akiva Eldar and CNI Board Member Anna Baltzer discuss the current state of (or stasis in) Pres. Obama’s peace diplomacy, the broader, year-long record of Obama’s Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy, and the political situation in Israel today.

Jeff Halper, co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), and CNI Board Member Alison Weir discuss settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, and how Israel uses home demolitions to sow fear among Palestinians in the occupied territories.

PLO Ambassador to the United States Maen Areikat, and CNI Board Member Dr. E. Faye Williams, review the developments of the past year in Gaza, Hamas-Fatah reconciliation talks, Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives, and the progress of Obama’s Mideast envoy.

Nieman Fellow and acclaimed Mideast Journalist Rami Khouri, and CNI Executive Director Helena Cobban review developments of the past year in President Obama’s Mideast efforts, the Israeli-US-Egyptian siege on Gaza, and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Helena Cobban talks with Laila El-Haddad, a blogger and journalist from an old Gaza family– and with her father, Dr. Musa El-Haddad, who was in Gaza during the Israeli assault of late 2008 and early 2009. Dr. Musa gives some vignettes of what life was like in central Gaza under the bombardment. He and Leila discuss the broader impact of that war, of Israel’s continuing siege on Gaza, and current international efforts to break that siege.

Zoughbi Zoughbi, a veteran of the nonviolence movement who lives and works in Bethlehem, talks with Helena Cobban and a number of callers about the increasingly closed-in nature of life in Bethlehem, which is nearly surrounded by Israel’s Apartheid Wall. Callers discuss the Palestinians’ experience of nonviolent social action and the different responsibilities of their supporters in both Israel and the United States.

Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard talks with Gene Bird and Helena Cobban about the strength of the pro-Israel lobby today, the lobby’s mounting campaign to escalate tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the policies of the Obama administration, and much more.

Outspoken Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy joined host Alison Weir to discuss the social and political climate in Jerusalem.

Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and Chris Gunness, the spokesperson for UNRWA, join CNI Executive Director and featured host, Helena Cobban, to discuss the humanitarian and political fallout from last winter’s Israeli war on Gaza.

Fresh from their 17-day political pilgrimage to Israel, Palestine, and all their neighboring countries, CNI Executive Director Helena Cobban and Director of Operations Carlton Cobb joined host Dr. E. Faye Williams to discuss the many disturbing things they learned during their trip about the US’s plummeting levels of support from the peoples and governments of the region.

Former South Dakota Senator and CNIF vice-chairman James Abourezk joined host Alison Weir of If Americans Knew. During the show, titled “Where does US Policy go from here?”, Sen. Abourezk and Weir discussed the situation for American policy in the Middle East.

John Duke Anthony head of the National Council for US-Arab Relations and a long time expert in the Mid-East policy, discusses with members of a CNI delegation currently in Damascus, the situation for American policy in the Middle East. The group is headed by former Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock and Executive Director of CNI Helena Cobban.

Host Alison Weir and Middle East journalist Jeffrey Blankfort discuss the media's role in the Middle East. The two deliberate on American media propaganda, Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, and the power structure of the Israeli Lobby.

Jewish-American Peace Activist Anna Baltzer speaks with Micha Kurz former Israeli Defense Soldier and co-founder of Breaking the Silence. The two deliberate on pressing issues in Jerusalem and the role of the Israeli Military in the occupied Palestinian Territories.

Dr. E. Faye Williams interviews Jala Andoni, a Christian Palestinian woman living under the occupation, and Ruth El-Raz, an Israeli resident of Jerusalem. The women discuss living conditions in Jerusalem, The Goldstone Report, and the role of women in the peace process.

Host Ambassador Edward Peck and CNI President Eugene Bird discuss the Middle East peace process, and the role of the US.