PERSON: James Zogby
Employer
Arab American Institute
Position
Founder & President
Biography
James Joseph Zogby (born 1945) is the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based organization that serves as a political and policy research arm of the Arab-American community.
Zogby is Managing Director of Zogby Research Services, LLC, specializing in research and communications and undertaking polling across the Arab world. In September 2013 President Barack Obama appointed Zogby to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Zogby is a lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues and a Visiting Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi. From 2001 to 2017, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee.
Zogby’s father, Joseph, illegally immigrated from Lebanon to the United States in 1922. He eventually obtained citizenship through a government policy of amnesty and worked as a grocer. He married Celia Ann, a teacher, also born with the surname “Zogby”; they lived in Utica, New York, where their children were born. Zogby, like his parents, is Catholic.
He attended Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, graduating in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. A student of Ismail al-Faruqi, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in Islamic studies from Temple University in 1975. He studied at Princeton University in 1976 as a National Endowment for the Humanities post-doctoral fellow.
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Zogby is Managing Director of Zogby Research Services, LLC, specializing in research and communications and undertaking polling across the Arab world. In September 2013 President Barack Obama appointed Zogby to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Zogby is a lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues and a Visiting Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi. From 2001 to 2017, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee.
Zogby’s father, Joseph, illegally immigrated from Lebanon to the United States in 1922. He eventually obtained citizenship through a government policy of amnesty and worked as a grocer. He married Celia Ann, a teacher, also born with the surname “Zogby”; they lived in Utica, New York, where their children were born. Zogby, like his parents, is Catholic.
He attended Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, graduating in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. A student of Ismail al-Faruqi, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in Islamic studies from Temple University in 1975. He studied at Princeton University in 1976 as a National Endowment for the Humanities post-doctoral fellow.
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