Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 02/2009

President Obama and Middle East Expectations

Amr Hamzawy, Marina Ottaway

January 2009

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Abstract

The Carnegie Endowment has monitored closely the Arab media's coverage of the long U.S. election campaign and the reactions to Barack Obama's victory. Recently, the Carnegie Middle East Center commissioned a series of commentaries from Arab writers and analysts.