{"id":719,"date":"2009-06-03T09:52:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=719"},"modified":"2009-06-03T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T14:29:14","slug":"obama-and-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/03\/obama-and-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s trip to the Middle East this week is a chance to change the political dynamic of U.S. relations in that region.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor <a title=\"Linda Killian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/linda_killian.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Killian<\/a>, director of the BU Washington Center\u00a0and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, says Obama&#8217;s message to Muslims should mix sensitivity and tough love.\u00a0 &#8220;We do want a partnership with these nations,&#8221; Killian writes in a U.S. News &amp; World Report <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/opinion\/2009\/06\/02\/obamas-message-to-muslims-requires-sensitivity--and-tough-love_print.htm\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a>, &#8220;but that requres give-and-take from both sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contact Linda Killian, 202-486-9598, <a href=\"mailto:lkillian@bu.edu\">lkillian@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s trip to the Middle East this week is a chance to change the political dynamic of U.S. relations in that region.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor Linda Killian, director of the BU Washington Center\u00a0and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, says Obama&#8217;s message to Muslims should mix sensitivity and tough love.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[517,1088,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}