Nov. 27, 2009
Our “CNI: Jerusalem Calling” radio show is gaining momentum and audience. On Thursday, Dec. 3, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi and Chris Gunness, spokesperson for the UN relief agency UNRWA, will join host Helena Cobban to discuss the situation of the world’s five-six million Palestinian refugees.
The show will be aired live online, [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Khalidi and Gunness on CNI radio, Dec. 3rd!
Friday, November 27th, 2009All Aboard! CNI hosts 20th Anniversary Banquet
Friday, November 20th, 2009Nov. 20, 2009
On November 17, the Council for the National Interest’s 20TH anniversary Gala Dinner was held aboard the SS Odyssey in Washington, DC.
The elegant evening event welcomed back the ten individuals who had returned to Washington just one day earlier at the end of CNI’s latest, 17-day-long ‘political pilgrimage’ tour of Israel, Palestine, and [...]
CNI Foundation group returns: Mideast leaders losing patience with Obama
Friday, November 20th, 2009Nov. 19, 2009
Co-led by Jack Matlock, a former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and CNI executive director Helena Cobban, a 10-member delegation of American citizen-diplomats returned home November 16 after participating in a 17-day study tour of Israel, Palestine, and all their neighbors.
The group’s members, who come from a variety of professional backgrounds and half [...]
