Starts:

Thursday June 13, 2024

    5:30 PM

Ends:

    7:00 PM

*For non-member event reservations: please email pfitzgerald@democraticwoman.org or telephone (202) 232-7363 Ext. 402 (voicemails will also be accepted).*

Arab American Institute founder Jim Zogby, Ph.D., will discuss the challenges Democrats are facing in the upcoming election. Among the issues that Democrats must address are the difficulty of appealing to white working class voters; the changing composition of the "Obama coalition," which included racial minorities, women, and young voters; and the repercussions of the war in Gaza. 

EVENT DETAILS:

• Remarks and Q&A, in-person and via Zoom.
• 5:30 pm bar opens, hors d'oeuvres, 6–7 pm program
• $10 lecture or Zoom only, $20 members and $25 guests for in-person. Cash bar.

James Zogby co-founded the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community, in 1985 and continues to serve as its president. He is Director of Zogby Research Services, a firm that has conducted groundbreaking surveys across the Middle East.

In September 2013, President Obama appointed Dr. Zogby to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. He was reappointed to a second term in 2015 and concluded his service in May 2017. He was twice elected Vice Chair.

Dr. Zogby is featured frequently on national and international media as an expert on Middle East affairs. Since 1992, Zogby has also written a weekly column on U.S. politics for the major newspapers of the Arab world, and has published several books.

Dr. Zogby has also been personally active in U.S. politics for many years; in 1984 and 1988 he served as Deputy Campaign manager and Senior Advisor to the Jesse Jackson Presidential campaign. In 1988, he led the first ever debate on Palestinian statehood at that year’s Democratic convention in Atlanta, GA. In 2000, 2008, and 2016, he served as an advisor to the Gore, Obama, and Sanders presidential campaigns.

For the past 3 decades, Dr. Zogby has served in leadership roles in the Democratic National Committee. He currently serves as Chair of the DNC Ethnic Council, an umbrella organization of Democratic Party leaders of European and Mediterranean descent. He served on the DNC’s Executive Committee from 2000 to 2017 and for more than a decade as Co-Chair of the party’s Resolutions Committee.