Obama in Cairo

The Speech: Who advised Obama?

Evan Hill | June 4, 2009 3:00 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

The New York Times goes in-depth on how Obama has prepared for his speech.

Here are the names of some of those who helped him out.

  • S. A. Ibrahim of the Radian Group
  • Tariq Malhance, the president of UIB Capital
  • Hultam Olayan of the Olayan America Corporation
  • Noosheen Hashemi, a former vice president at Oracle.
  • Michael McFaul, the White House senior adviser for Russia, who is also a "senior democracy adviser" 
  • National Security Council members Mara Rudman, Dan Shapiro, Denis McDonough and Ben Rhodes
  • Karim Sadjadpour, an Iranian-American expert from the Carnegie Endowment
  • Ghaith Al-Omari, a former Palestinian peace negotiator
  • Vali Nasr, an Iran expert and author of "The Shia Revival" who the Times says is soon to join the Obama administration
  • Shibley Telhami, a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy who helped with this recent Arab opinion poll

For updates throughout the day, follow us on Twitter, Facebook or RSS!

Categories: Obama Administration

Tags: Barack Obama, Cairo speech, Ghaith Al-Omari, Hultam Olayan, Noosheen Hashemi, S. A. Ibrahim, Shibley Telhami, Tariq Malhance, Vali Nasr

No Comments

Post a Comment

"We must face these tensions squarely"

Barack Obama addressed the Muslim world from Cairo University on Thursday and called for a "new beginning." Here's a round-up of our coverage.

Obama in the headlines: Then and now

Exactly one year after Obama made headlines in the Arab world for his optimistic Cairo speech, he's once again topping the news -- this time, for defending Israel's flotilla raid.

B'Tselem: Settlements occupy 42 percent of West Bank

Ben-Eliezer makes "secret trip" to Turkey: Israeli TV

CENTCOM talking sense on Hamas and Hizballah

Al-Akhbar: Our weekly brief

Peace Processing

Talking about direct talks: Netanyahu returns to the White House

Gregg Carlstrom | July 6, 2010 4:00 AM | 0 | recommend (0)
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivering a statement in Jerusalem on July 1, 2010. (Photo: AFP)
US president Barack Obama will use a White House meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push for an extended West Bank settlement freeze. If Netanyahu doesn't offer one - and the domestic politics are quite difficult for him - it's hard to see any possibility of direct talks with the Palestinian Authority later this year.

The Afghan Surge

Obama's southern strategy

Gregg Carlstrom | June 24, 2010 6:09 AM | 1 | recommend (0)
Gen. David Petraeus testifying on Capitol Hill. (Photo: Reuters)
The president's decision to nominate Gen. David Petraeus as the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan won't mean a major change in strategy. But there are mounting reasons for pessimism about current policy, particularly the relentless focus on southern Afghanistan. The deployment of tens of thousands of additional troops to Kandahar and Helmand serves few NATO objectives.

Freedom Flotilla Killings

Anticlimax: How much did the flotilla raid really change regional politics?

Gregg Carlstrom | June 17, 2010 7:35 AM | 4 | recommend (2)
A demonstration in London against the Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla. (Photo: AFP)
It has accelerated Israel's isolation from several of its neighbors and allies; it has sharpened divisions within Turkish domestic politics; it has deepened perceptions that the Obama administration as too close to Israel. And it seems to have had a remarkably minor impact on Palestinian domestic politics.

Bloggers

The "MSM"