The Mess We're In: How U.S. leaders Have Failed Us in the Middle East and What You Can Do

James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, DC-based organization that has served as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community since 1985. For the past three decades Zogby has been involved in a range of Arab American issues. He was a cofounder of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and Save Lebanon, a private non-profit, humanitarian relief organization. Following the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord in Washington he served as copresident of Builders for Peace, a private sector committee to promote U.S. business investment in the West Bank and Gaza. Since 1992 Zogby has written a weekly column on U.S. politics, Washington Watch, for the major newspapers of the Arab world. He is the author of What Ethnic Americans Really Think and What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns. Part of the World Affairs Series.