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Jim Zanotti is an associate at the Center for Global Peace at American University, specializing in US relations with the Middle East and the Islamic world.  He has written extensively on this subject, having co-authored the following editorials with Dr. Abdul Aziz Said:

“What Happened to Land of the Brave,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 10, 2006      “The Arabs – No Longer History’s Exiles” (Arabic language),  Al Hayat, July 25, 2006 “New Space for Arab Public Life,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 18, 2006

Jim recently interned at the Middle East Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington; where he edited a group of publications on Iranian domestic and foreign policy; and performed research and writing projects on the Iranian nuclear issue, the Israel/Palestine conflict, and political developments in Lebanon.  Jim has also interned at the US House of Representatives Committee on International Relations, where he has worked on issues such as the Darfur crisis and UN reform.

Jim will receive his M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution in May 2007 from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC in the field of International Peace and Conflict Resolution.   He is shortly expecting the publication of his paper analyzing the political system created in Sudan by the recent North-South peace agreement.  Jim is also an attorney, having received his J.D. from Harvard in 1999.  He practiced law in Orange County, California from 1999-2005.  His B.A. is in History from the University of Southern California.