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SEP 2, 2010
Dancers cover up for diplomacy’s sake
The Montreal Gazette
Cheerleaders donned black leggings and white T-shirts for a world championship basketball match between Iran and the United States in Istanbul on Wednesday to respect cultural sensitivities...Patrick Baumann, secretary-general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), said "special arrangements" had been made with the dancers' dress on Wednesday.
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SEP 1, 2010
Who’s Got More Twitter Influence, You or Hugo Chavez?
The Atlantic
It's one thing to maintain ruthless control over an oppressed citizenry. But quite something else to tweet about it well. In today's Davos-driven geopolitics, even authoritarian leaders need to be savvy about public relations. That's why even the toughest leaders are all up on the Internet; they use Twitter to craft their images without the hassle and noise of competing parties or media bias.
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SEP 1, 2010
Emirates increases Saudi services
Breaking Travel News
Emirates is to increase flights from Dubai to Al Medinah al Munawarah in Saudi Arabia to seven flights per week from 31 October 2010 due to the growing importance of economic and cultural ties between the two nations.
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SEP 1, 2010
Mideast peace talks’ hidden threat
Politico (blog)
Some 46 percent of Israelis believe that President Barack Obama is “pro-Palestinian,” according to a Smith Research poll this summer. Since then, that figure most likely has ticked higher. After all, in July, the president upgraded the Palestinian delegation’s diplomatic status in Washington...
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SEP 1, 2010
Social Networking sees Israeli PM Netanyahu get in on the act
Online Social Media
Peace talks beginning today in Washington between Israelis and Palestinians will prompt the use of the new accounts to communicate events and news from the talks. Although Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office has had an official website for some time Netanyahu apparently realizes the benefits of using social networking sites to get his message across more widely.
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AUG 31, 2010
Bad public diplomacy: a legacy of waste in Iraq
MountainRunner.us
A U.S. “Legacy of Waste” in Iraq, by Liz Sly, Los Angeles Times, documents the culmination of seven years of failed public diplomacy...
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 Framing the U.S. Election and an Obama Presidency: Arab New Media in 2008-09
This study examines content from online newspapers and blogs from across the Arab world to assess the developing media discussion of the United States presidential election and results.
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 An Evaluation of Alhurra Television Programming
An Evaluation of Alhurra Television Programming is a multi-method evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of Alhurra's news broadcasting to the Middle East.
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![]() A Restored Synagogue in an Unlikely Place
AUG 30, 2010
APDS Bloggers
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![]() AFRICOM’s Impressive Public Diplomacy Product
AUG 7, 2010
Philip Seib
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 Terrorism and New Media: Building a Research Network
September 8 - 9, 2010
Venue: Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
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 Virginia Haufler: Governing Corporations in Zones of Conflict -Issues, Actors & Institutions
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy
12:00 PM, Thursday, November 19, 2009
Venue: USC; SOS B40
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 God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape
A lecture by Peggy Levitt of Wellesley College and Harvard University
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Venue: USC; Montgomery Ross Fisher Building, Room 340
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