Jon Alterman is head of the Middle East program at the Center for Stategic and International Studies in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

Jon Alterman is director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Fouad Ajami heads the Middle East Studies program at the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The president spoke at a meeting of a White House advisory panel set up to study the problems facing the middle class and propose solutions.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

Its smaller companies will not be covered. The head of Middle East research at Swiss-based financial firm UBS, Saud Masud,says it is a step in the right direction.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

Professor Fouad Ajami, who directs the Middle East Studies program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, thinks President Assad is well placed to act as mediator with Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

While some of their clients are middle class professionals from the community at large, many brothels will only accept a narrow clientele to make it difficult for law enforcement to catch them.

VOA: standard.2010.05.24

Criticism has already been leveled at Woods for the timing of his statement coming in the middle of the first big golfing event of the year the Accenture Match Play championship in Arizona.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

"The bus went into the middle of the desert and at a certain moment the call to prayer came just lilting through the desert - first time I've ever heard it - and then the bus stopped and all of those colorful people got off the bus."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21