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JUN 4, 2009
Americans ‘Negative’ About Muslims
Al Jazeera
As Barack Obama, the US president, seeks to mend the image of the US in the Muslim world, a new survey indicates almost half of Americans have a negative opinion about Muslim countries. The 46 per cent of respondents who held an unfavourable view of Islamic nations was up five per cent from 2002, while just 20 per cent said they held a positive opinion.
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JUN 3, 2009
Obama’s Cairo Speech: It’s a Rorschach Test, But It Doesn’t Have to Be
Huffington Post
Tomorrow a global Rorschach inkblot test will take place. Obama will speak in Cairo. All around the world there will be cries of alarm and sighs of relief, predictions full of hope and condemnations dripping with outrage, disappointment and celebration, denunciations that the speech was too soft and accusations that it was just more of the same.
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JUN 3, 2009
Where’s U.S. Public Diplomacy When Bin Laden Whines About Obama?
Washington Independent
But more distressing that bin Laden’s expected bleating is the lack of rapid response from the administration’s public diplomacy infrastructure. If this were a political campaign, the pushback would have begun already. But so far there’s nothing from the State Department’s blog taking bin Laden’s message down.
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JUN 3, 2009
Unprecedented Web Outreach For Obama’s Speech
CBS
The White House has launched a sweeping plan to harness the ever-growing worldwide reach of social networks to promote President Obama's major speech to the Muslim world tomorrow in Cairo. It is an unprecedented effort to market a presidential address.
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JUN 3, 2009
Muslims Of The World, Lend Him Your Ears
The Atlantic
The notion of an American president's speech that facilitates the mutual interests of our allies in the Muslim world will strike conservatives here at home as a horrible sin. The fear is that that Obama will capitulate to an anti-Western world view that privileges humility over strength and concedes that America has lost the clash of civilizations.
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JUN 3, 2009
In Speech, Much for Obama to Overcome
The Washington Post
When President Obama delivers his address to the Middle East on Thursday from Cairo, he will face the legacy of names like Haditha, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, places that have become more symbol than geography over nearly a decade of perhaps the most traumatic chapter in America's relationship with the Muslim world.
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JUN 3, 2009
Obama to Speak at Campus Where Political Freedoms Are Few
The Washington Post
Student political groups are prohibited. The university's policy on artistic and cultural events, according to its Web site, is "protecting students from all sorts of destructive ideas and corrupt thoughts."
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JUN 3, 2009
Punditry From Bin Laden and Zawahiri on Obama’s Trip to the Middle East
The New York Times
If President Barack Obama’s trip this week to the home countries of both of Al Qaeda’s top leaders achieves nothing else, it appears to have already succeeded in annoying Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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JUN 3, 2009
Multiple Channels for Obama’s Cairo Speech
The New York Times
[The Cairo speech] will be texted and tweeted, as well as highlighted on Facebook, Myspace and a host of other social networking sites. The speech will also be Webcast as it happens on the White House Live section of Whitehouse.gov and streamed by the State Department as part of a live Web chat.
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JUN 3, 2009
Israeli Eyes on Cairo
Jerusalem Post
Will he censure Arab leaders and call on the Arab world to democratize? Or will he speak in subtler tones: a well-crafted diplomat about to take his place among a long list of American presidents who failed to bring Israelis and Palestinians to a sustainable solution while helping to buttress regional leaders who have done little to support democracy, freedom and justice?
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