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Last month, USC Dean of Religious Life Varun Soni and Rob Asghar, a USC Center on Public Diplomacy University Fellow, met with officials from the U.S. Department of State to discuss the Pakistani diaspora community and to explore a relationship with CPD.... >

CPD Director Philip Seib is quoted in Walrus Magazine's article 'The Most Hated Name in News,' an examination of the Al Jazeera English channel. The article also cites a CPD study of the controversial channel, which found that AJE viewership promoted cross-cultural discourse.

The Heritage Foundation blog The Foundry reports on a recent discussion hosted by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy in Washington, DC and recommends the newly published Toward A New Public Diplomacy... >

CPD director Philip Seib's article “Evaluating Al Hurra and Looking Toward an American Public Diplomacy,” appeared in the inaugural issue of the Arabic-language journal Afaq al Mustaqbal (Horizon of the Future) published by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research.

CPD Director Philip Seib writes the featured opinion piece in the September issue of Layalina's Perspectives. The article, 'Connecting Public Diplomacy and Policy,' can be read on the Layalina site.

Beginning September 1, Public Diplomacy in the News (PDiN) will be available as a daily digest. PDiN is an aggregation of public diplomacy news and information collected daily from sources around the world. To subscribe, click here.

CPD is proud to announce the release of Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by CPD Director Philip Seib, the book is a compilation of essays on reinventing American public diplomacy and foreign policy.

As a followup to his July keynote address, CPD Director Philip Seib recently spoke on the Melbourne Up Close podcast about new media and public diplomacy. Listen to the broadcast on the Up Close site.

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