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Article: Departing Egyptian Ambassador Salutes Increasing Influence of Arab Americans
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- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- November 30, 1999
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DEPARTING EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR SALUTES INCREASING INFLUENCE OF ARAB AMERICANS
Departing Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Ahmad Maher has hailed "the Burger King episode" as "an extraordinary manifestation of the importance of the Arab voice in the United States." In a farewell speech delivered to some 150 guests at a Sept. 1 reception in his honor at the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (CPAP), Maher, who is retiring after a long diplomatic career, also paid tribute to CPAP itself, the principal Palestinian-American think tank in the U.S. national capital.
"We share the goal of a real friendship between the U.S. and the Arab world, based upon justice," Maher said. Noting that "many ...