A new back channel has opened in US-Arab relations, one that's about doing business from the bottom on up.
In the last decade, the dialogue between the U.S. and the Arab Muslim world has focused on radical Islam, terror, security, profiling and, occasionally, oil.
Those topics still dominate media coverage, but since President Barack Obama’s 2009 “new beginning” speech in Cairo, a new back channel has opened — entrepreneurship. It’s a topic that both sides embrace, for similar reasons, and it’s a topic that has the potential to reframe the relationship the U.S. and the Arab world in positive fashion...