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Jim Fine
Legislative Secretary for Foreign Policy
As Legislative Secretary for Foreign Policy, Jim coordinates FCNL’s Iraq Peace Campaign, which is focused on working with Congress to set a date for the withdrawal of U.S. military troops from Iraq, to promote negotiations to bring armed groups fighting the Iraqi government back to the negotiations table, to participate in a regional peace process involving all of Iraq's neighbors, and to fund the reconstruction of Iraq. A long-time Middle East scholar and peace activist, Jim has extensive knowledge about sources of conflict and cooperation within the region.
Jim has lived in Beirut, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and, briefly, in Baghdad. For over three decades he has traveled extensively throughout the region meeting with political, social, and religious leaders and developing relationships of trust and confidence. He has served as the American Friends Service Committee's (AFSC) International Affairs representative in the Middle East traveling to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. He has also worked with a Quaker high school in Ramallah, and with the Middle East Council of Churches.
Jim’s knowledge of the Middle East and his work in post-conflict reconstruction and peace-building allowed him to travel in 1991 to post-war Iraq as a consultant to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Quaker Peace and Service (London). In the past fifteen years, Jim has made frequent visits to the Middle East, including a year-long stay from 1998 to 1999 and a month-long tour through Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza in 2002. Jim speaks and reads Arabic.
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06/13/2007
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