Americana In Arabic Library

Juan Cole 04/18/2006

Americana in Arabic Library

There has been a wonderful public response to my plea for contributions to the Global Americana Institute and our hopes to get the works of Ben Franklin, Thomas jefferson, and others into Arabic.

The interest has been so great that I thought I would tip readers to two important web sites on public diplomacy.

One is the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.

The other is The Public Diplomacy Web Site of the United States Information Agency Alumni Association.

I am arguing that US government-backed public diplomacy is just not getting the job done, and that we have to move to a new model of civil society organizations and grass roots support for it.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page