The volatile region is increasingly less optimistic about U.S. role. May 19, 2011— -- When President Obama speaks today on the so-called Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa, many ...

Watch the video of President Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt below. The president spoke of a “new beginning” for the relationship between the U.S. and Muslims around the world in the nearly ...

One year ago today, President Obama gave a landmark speech in Cairo, in which he spoke on behalf of the U.S. to the world's Muslims. It was heralded as an historic moment of outreach and the beginning ...

Veteran Mideast diplomat Edward P. Djerejian sees President Obama’s speech to the Muslim world as a “powerful public diplomacy statement.” But the task now, he says, will be crafting the policies that ...

The Atlantic Wire already brought you a roundup of general and domestic reaction to Obama's Middle East speech yesterday. But as with Obama's big speech in Cairo two years ago, the address was ...

President Obama delivered his much-awaited speech at Cairo University today, paying tribute to the Egyptian people and the contribution of Islam to the history of science and culture. He called for an ...