How should the Mideast react to Obama's speech?

Like millions of others across the Middle East, I was eager to listen to US President Obama give his speech in Cairo on June 4. As an Arab-American, I was excited to see my own president addressing issues I've found myself trying to explain since my childhood four decades ago as I traveled back and forth across the Atlantic: the relationship between American and Middle East.

However, unlike many others who may have wanted to express their views, I had the privilege of spending the day as a commentator on a widely-watched TV news broadcast and hosting an event for the American Ambassador to Qatar to talk about the speech at the Brookings Doha Center which I direct.