In September 2013 President Barack Obama appointed Zogby to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Zogby is a lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues and a Visiting Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi.

As co-president of Builders, Zogby promoted business investment by Arab-Americans in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

As co-president of Builders, Zogby frequently traveled to the Middle East with delegations led by Gore and Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.

Agencies to promote and support Palestinian economic development including AID, OPIC, USTDA, and the Departments of State and Commerce.

He has written several books, including What Ethnic Americans Really Think (The Zogby Culture Polls)[11] and What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns.

[13] He served as Gore's Senior Advisor on Ethnic Outreach, a post he also held in the 2008 Obama campaign.

As an author and scholar on Middle East issues and the Arab-American community, Zogby has been invited to testify before a number of Congressional Committees and Executive branch forums,[8] including on the subject of Arab attitudes toward the United States.

[18] In July 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Zogby and other senior Arab American Institute employees were threatened in emails and voice mail messages from Patrick Syring, a career Foreign Service Officer of the U.S. State Department.

In one email, Syring wrote, "You wicked evil Hezbollah-supporting Arabs should burn in the fires of hell for eternity and beyond.

Zogby was also named an Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin.