Talk:Victor G. Atiyeh

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[edit] alma mater?

where did he go to school? Please link him to that university.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.53.88.146 (talk • contribs) 05:03, 15 December 2006

[edit] Incomplete article

This article completely fails to give a sense of this guy. Atiyeh has earned himself the reputation for being an empty suit: for example, as one of the best-known Arab-Americans in the Republican party (his ancestors were Christian Arabs from either Syria or Lebanon), following the anti-Arab hysteria following 9/11, he was absolutely invisible. The media carried not one story about him attempting to calm the hysteria that led a lot of Americans to think "all Arabs/Muslims are terrorists." (Of course, to add that to the article requires a source, & since it is difficult to prove a negative...) -- llywrch 22:08, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arab heritage

From Saudi Aramco World magazine:

In Oregon, 51-year-old State Senator Victor Atiyeh, whose Syrian father founded an Oriental rug business in Portland around the turn of the century, made a good try for governor. As, on the opposite coast, did 41-year-old attorney George J. Mitchell—another Lebanese-American—who won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Maine. Despite their defeats, Atiyeh, who with two brothers heads the rug business their father began, and Mitchell gained national attention. A member of the Oregon Legislature for 16 years, Atiyeh helped develop the Oregon environmental-protection laws that have served as models for a number of other states. Mitchell, a former executive assistant to Maine's Senator Edmund J. Muskie and one of those helping map the Senator's unsuccessful bid for the 1972 presidential nomination, is a ranking member of the National Committee of the Democratic Party.

Numerous other Arab-Americans hold—and have held—political posts at the state and municipal levels. And, as is the case with those on the higher political rungs, they've fortunately not had to rely on their ethnic strength to attain them.

"Whatever our people have done, they've chosen carefully and done well," says Oregon's Atiyeh, commenting on the Arab impact in America.


From "Arabs in America: The Native Sons", Pages 26-34 of the March/April 1975 print edition of Saudi Aramco World.

--Kitrus 09:22, 28 July 2007 (UTC)