60-Second Expert: The Key to U.S.-Muslim Relations
June 22, 2009 | For the United States to focus only on improving its image in the Arab and Muslim world is to see only half of the picture.
Articles by R.S. Zaharna
Improving U.S.-Muslim Relations: Obama’s Other Audience
June 5, 2009 | For the United States to focus only on improving its image in the Arab and Muslim world is to see only half of the picture.
The U.S. Credibility Deficit
December 13, 2006 | In their responses to Nancy Snow's provocative thesis, R.S. Zaharna and John Robert Kelley focus on America's credibility deficit and the limits of civic diplomacy.
Forget Battles, Think Bridges
September 30, 2005 | Since September 11, 2001, American public diplomacy has been on a communication treadmill trying to find the "right" message that will win the hearts and minds of skeptical foreign publics.
The Unintended Consequences of Crisis Public Diplomacy: American Public Diplomacy in the Arab World
September 30, 2005 | With the end of major military action in Iraq, U.S. public diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim world has entered a new, more challenging phase.
The Network Paradigm of Strategic Public Diplomacy
September 30, 2005 | With the nomination of Karen Hughes as the new undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, the United States has the potential to embark on a new and more effective phase in its communication with the international community, particularly with the Arab and Islamic world.
Winning Round Two of American Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds
June 13, 2003 | According to a poll released early last week by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press ( http://people-press.org/ ), America's image has become "dangerously" negative throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
Osama Bin Laden’s Message to the Arab and Muslim World: “I am not the enemy. America is.”
February 12, 2003 | Score another public diplomacy point for Osama bin Laden in his war with the United States to win the hearts and minds of the Arab and Muslim world.
Finding America’s Voice in the Middle East
April 1, 2002 | Until America finds its own voice in the Palestinian-Israeli dispute, it is unlikely that America's voice will be heard or heeded in the Arab world.
Israel’s True Intentions in Removing Arafat
December 1, 2001 | It might be time for Israel to confess to its true intentions in the Palestinian territories.