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Zalmay Khalilzad is the current United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He is the highest ranking Afghan American or Muslim in the administration of George W. Bush. A former professor of political science at Columbia University, Khalilzad also served as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations before becoming a State Department advisor under the Ronald Reagan administration. He served in various government advisory positions until the 9/11 attacks, after which he became the special envoy to Afghanistan and then the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. He became the official U.S. ambassador to Iraq on June 21, 2005 and then the ambassador to the UN on February 12, 2007. He has written extensively about U.S. foreign policy leadership after the Cold War.
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- Born: March 22, 1951
- Birthplace: Mazari Sharif, Afganistan
- UN Ambassador: April 17, 2007
- U.S. Ambassador to Iraq: 2005 to 2007
- U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan: 2003 to 2007
- Former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
- Former professor at Columbia University
- Studied at the University of Chicago
- Religion: Sunni Islam
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@GarlandEHarris Maysoon Zayid, Zalmay Khalilzad, Fareed Zakaria, Maz Jobrani...list goes on. Perhaps you've never tried to hear them.
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2:20amET - Fmr. Ambassador to Iran, Afghanistan & U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad on the Middle East (11/9). 90.1 FM(DC), XM 132, www.c-spanradio.org
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1:30pmET Fmr US Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad speaks at Middle East Institute. 90.1 FM(DC), XM 132, www.c-spanradio.org
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1:30pmET Fmr US Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad speaks at Middle East Institute. 90.1FM(DC), XM132, www.c-spanradio.org
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Bush officials return to Iraq in business push: Senior Bush administration figures including Zalmay Khalilzad, .. http://bit.ly/4cpyoB
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Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century: Strategic Flashpoints and U.S. Strategy - $55.00
The problem of global, long-range defense planning has changed enormouslysince the end of the Cold War. The sources and types of conflict for which the military mustplan have become more varied and less predictable, the range of potential a...
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Charlie Rose with Zalmay Khalilzad (March 10, 2005) - $24.95
Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, talks to Charlie Rose about the challenges facing Afghanistan and the role of the United States in the process of rebuilding. Also, Time magazine's Joe Klein on his exclusive interview with ...
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Strategic Appraisal: United States Air and Space Power in the 21st Century (Strategic Appraisal) - $30.00
Change--in international relations, in technology, and in society as a whole--has become the idiom of our age. One example of these changes has been an increasing recognition of the value of air and space assets for handling nearly every c...
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Peace in the Middle East: strategies for the containment of extremism.(INTERVIEW)(dialogue with Zalmay Khalilzad)(Interview): An article from: Harvard International Review - $9.95
This digital document is an article from Harvard International Review, published by Harvard International Relations Council, Inc. on June 22, 2008. The length of the article is 2682 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 3...
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