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September 18, 2007

ARAB AMERICAN EXPERT TO SPEAK AT GRINNELL COLLEGE

James Zogby, president and founder of the Arab American Institute, will speak at Grinnell College at noon on Sept. 25 in the Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 209, on the Grinnell campus. Zogby will discuss "The Mess We're In: How U.S. Leaders Have Failed Us in the Middle East and What You Can Do."

Zogby, who has been involved in Arab American issues for more than three decades, was invited by former Vice President Al Gore to serve as co-president of Builders for Peace, a private sector organization to promote business investment following the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. Since 1992, Zogby has written "Washington Watch," a weekly column on U.S. politics for major newspapers in the Arab world. He also hosts a weekly current affairs television program called "Viewpoint," carried on Link TV and MHz networks.

Zogby's talk is co-sponsored by the Grinnell College's Peace Studies Program, Center for International Studies, and the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights. For more information about the Grinnell Peace Studies Program, go to http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/peacestudies/. The Rosenfield Center is located at 1115 8th Ave. on the Grinnell College campus.