Yousef Ibrahim

And Yousef Ibrahim, former correspondent for the New York Times, took the middle path, stressing the "golden opportunity" that the Arabsats had to make the Arab voice heard on the world stage, providing they got it right.

Former New York Times correspondent, Yousef Ibrahim, writing in Z-mag, notes that the war has reduced rather than expand energy supplies, and that a crisis elsewhere could drive crude oil prices up to $60 a barrel or more.

Yousef Ibrahim is a former Middle East correspondent for the New York Times and former energy editor for The Wall Street Journal. He is now a political risk consultant based in the United Arab Emirates and New York. And he is a truth teller who ought to be invited - among other places - to Seattle's Town Hall to add some balance to the next smugly condemnatory Leftist-dominated panel discussion on the role of the U.S. and The West in battling global Islamicist terrorism.
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Ibrahim continues:
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Great vision, but empty words - unless meshed with dead-serious implementation of strategies such as those highlighted above by Ibrahim.
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For general background purposes, here are a few additional op-eds by Ibrahim, well worth reading:

"Will The Mideast Bloom?" (2005, Washington Post);

"To My Arab Brothers: The War With Israel Is Over - And They Won. Now Let's Finally Move Forward" (2006, Jewish World Review);

"Finally, It Seems, Iran Has Overplayed Its' Hand" (2006, USA Today);

"The Road To Beirut Leads Straight To Damascus" (2006, New York Sun).

TECHNORATI TAGS: TERRORISM, YOUSEF IBRAHIM, TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, SANCTIONS, ASSIMILATION, MADRASSAS, SEATTLE, GEORGE W. BUSH, STRATEGIC VISION FOR THE WAR ON TERROR, RUDY GIULIANI, G8, EUROPEAN UNION

Yousef Ibrahim is a former Middle East correspondent for the New York Times and former energy editor for The Wall Street Journal. He is now a political risk consultant based in the United Arab Emirates and New York. And he is a truth teller who ought to be invited - among other places - to Seattle's Town Hall to add some balance to the next smugly condemnatory Leftist-dominated panel discussion on the role of the U.S. and The West in battling global Islamicist terrorism.
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Ibrahim continues:
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Great vision, but empty words - unless meshed with dead-serious implementation of strategies such as those highlighted above by Ibrahim.
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For general background purposes, here are a few additional op-eds by Ibrahim, well worth reading:

"Will The Mideast Bloom?" (2005, Washington Post);

"To My Arab Brothers: The War With Israel Is Over - And They Won. Now Let's Finally Move Forward" (2006, Jewish World Review);

"Finally, It Seems, Iran Has Overplayed Its' Hand" (2006, USA Today);

"The Road To Beirut Leads Straight To Damascus" (2006, New York Sun).

TECHNORATI TAGS: TERRORISM, YOUSEF IBRAHIM, TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, SANCTIONS, ASSIMILATION, MADRASSAS, SEATTLE, GEORGE W. BUSH, STRATEGIC VISION FOR THE WAR ON TERROR, RUDY GIULIANI, G8, EUROPEAN UNION

Yousef Ibrahim, former correspondent of the New York Times, on the other hand, preferred to look at the positive developments that took place in the region's media.

"The Arab media has become strong to the degree that it can now be heard even in the White House," he said.

"The brilliant part is that we now have a voice that is listened to at all levels of power in America.The question now is of quality.We have an opportunity now and we have to grasp it in order to become a force to shape public opinion," Ibrahim said.

The eminent writer pointed out that the Arab media has succeeded and can now answer back to the western media.

Ibrahim concluded his talk by saying that the Arab TV media is on a rising curve at a time when the TV media in America is declining.

Also critical: Yousef Ibrahim, the former New York Times correspondent who covered the first Gulf War.He combined his critique with praise for Arab satellite TV outlets: "The brilliant part is that we now have a voice that is listened to at the CIA and at the White House.