Subject: interview with the President-elect?
From: "Clifford Scott-Rudnick" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:12:18 -0600

John -

I have known Ann for over 30 years.  She ran the Illinois Civil Service
Commission when I first started with the union.  She teaches at John
Marshall with me and is a good friend.

She is very active with the Armenian community in Chicago and elsewhere.
Her niece married Amjed.

I know how busy you are and know you are excited as we are about the
upcoming changes.

Let me know if you are in town at all next week.  You are always welcome to
hide out here if you want to get away.

Cliff

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From: Lousin, Ann
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 11:32 AM
To: Scott-Rudnick, Cliff
Subject: interview with the President-elect?

My nephew Amjad's brother, Ashraf Al-Dajani, is here in Chicago.  He would
like to interview the President-elect for about 45 minutes.  Let me explain.

Ashraf is a candidate for a doctorate in law (not juris doctor, but Ph.D. in
international law) at the University of Europe in Florence.  I have been
proofing his dissertation, which is on the legal status of Jerusalem, its
history, situation, and possible future.  He has done extensive research
and, of course, is familiar with the situation, being a native of Jerusalem.
 He is now in the final stages of polishing it.

His advisor in Florence has asked him to get interviews with key players in
the U.S. on this issue; yesterday evening, Ashraf asked if he could get an
interview with the President-elect.

Further:  the Al-Dajanis have always been and continue to be key players in
Palestinian politics.  One of Ashraf & Amjad's uncles is head of the
political science department at Al Quds University in Jerusalem, while
another uncle is the head of the American Studies department.  Ph.D.'s
abound in that family.  More to the point:  Ashraf has secretly (this is not
for general distribution) been a staff person in some of the ongoing
negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, including the "quartet"
agreement negotiations.  He will almost certainly be a key player in any new
Palestinian state (he will be 31 on Dec. 26th).  So this is a way for Obama
to get an inroad to the Palestinian negotiators.

Pls advise.  This is not your ordinary "help out a kid writing a paper"
thing.

Tx, Ann