A curated selection of public diplomacy-relevant news from a global cross-section of English-language media outlets, including independent, corporate-owned, and state-sponsored sources. The stories featured don't necessarily represent CPD's views nor have they been verified by CPD.
Obama Should Recall Chicago On His tour
As he wanders in Arab-Islamic lands, he should be guided less by the ghastly images of the 9/11 attacks, and more by his two seminal experiences in Chicago as a community organizer and law professor. Law and rights, not terror and revenge, should be the lenses through which he encounters the Arab-Islamic world.
Unprecedented Web Outreach For Obama’s Speech
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.
Muslims Of The World, Lend Him Your Ears
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.
What Arabs expect from Obama for Mideast peace
Obama’s trip to Saudi Arabia today to meet with King Abdullah has raised the expectations of Arabs. While Western diplomats have said that Obama’s visit will not yield much in leading to solutions to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Arabs, on the other hand, will be disappointed if the visit results only in the usual rhetoric.
President Obama: Are you listening?
Since President Barack Obama’s path to the White House was paved with promises of better relations with the Muslim World – which were reiterated in his inaugural address as well –people expect him to deliver on those promises and make all those words come true.
In Speech, Much for Obama to Overcome
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.
Obama to Speak at Campus Where Political Freedoms Are Few
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."
King Abdullah Greets Obama in Saudi Arabia
President Obama arrived Wednesday in this desert capital bedecked with American flags and the green banner of the Saudi kingdom, saying he wanted to launch a five-day trip to the Middle East and Europe in "the place Islam began."
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