Source: Arab News (Read full story)

About two years ago, I wrote an article in Arab News titled “Why Arabs fail to influence Americans?” A couple of days later, I received many e-mails asking me if I knew John Duke Anthony. To this day I never knew why I was asked this question. But when I looked him up on the Internet and the Saudi-US relations Information Service (SUSRIS) website and started to follow his work and his writings. Ironically, many people in the Arab world don’t know the amount of positive contributions he has made to improve the American knowledge and understanding of the Arab world.

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NCUSAR was established in the 1980s and many people in the Arab world still don’t know about it or even haven’t heard of it. From the day it was established it helped enhance the American awareness about US-Arab issues in every field and not only politics.

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