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Pollster sees hope for repairing strained relations between Americans and Muslims
Zogby finds young people in arab world hold more positive views of united states
By Matt Nash
Special to The Daily Star
Wednesday, March 21, 2007


BEIRUT: Acclaimed pollster John Zogby sees rays of hope for mending shattered relations between Americans and Muslims in publics that desire knowledge about and contact with each other, he said during a lecture Monday night titled, "Love, hate, envy or respect? Recent trends in Arab and American Public Opinion," at the American University of Beirut.

Young people on both sides of the Atlantic peer across with the most positive attitudes, explained the president and CEO of Zogby International, a polling firm started in the US in 1984 renowned for accurately predicting "too-close-to-call" elections such as the 2000 American and 2006 Mexican presidential contests.

Five opinion polls over the last five years asked people in Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates their views on America from a variety of angles. While American foreign policy, specifically the Iraq war, turned opinions away from America over time, people between the ages of 18 and 34 consistently held more positive views than the group as a whole, Zogby said.


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