Arab American leader James Zogby to be honored
By Karen Farkas
Cleveland.com
James Zogby, the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, will be honored Friday by the Cleveland American Middle East Organization.
Zogby will be honored for his work to empower Arab Americans and his contributions to the Cleveland community as the organization celebrates its 46th anniversary at a dinner in Brooklyn.
For more than 30 years, Zogby has been at the forefront of Arab American political activism, the organization said.
Zogby co-founded and chaired the Palestine Human Rights Campaign in the late 1970s, and later co-founded and served as the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
In 1982, he co-founded Save Lebanon Inc., a private non-profit, humanitarian and non-sectarian relief organization which funded health care for Palestinian and Lebanese victims of war, and other social welfare projects in Lebanon.
In 1985, Zogby founded the Arab American Institute, a Washington-based organization. The non-profit, nonpartisan organization encourages the direct participation of Arab Americans in political and civic life in the U.S.
Zogby is a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee and was appointed by President Barack Obama to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2013.
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