ADC launches National Network of Arab American Lawyers (NAALA)
ADC has launched a badly needed network to bring together Lawyers and legal minds to focus on the civil rights and legal rights of Arab Americans. ADC’s Network of Arab American Lawyers will fill a badly needed void in the Arab American Community.
As part of the ADC mission, our legal department is committed to providing pro bono legal assistance to the Arab American community.
In 2011 ADC launched the Network of Arab American Lawyers of ADC (NAALA). The Network has grown exponentially into a successful initiative. The objective of NAALA is to provide support to the ADC Legal Department. As ADC celebrates 40 Years of Commitment and Service to the community, we are calling on lawyers and legal professionals from across the country to join NAALA and help ADC further its mission of protecting the community.
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As a member of NAALA, attorneys, law students and legal professionals will have an opportunity to organize, network, collaborate, and mentor; assist the ADC Legal Department in its endeavors to promote respect for civil liberties and human rights; and assist ADC in our efforts to grow as the premiere civil rights organization for Arab Americans.
Members of NAALA are truly engaged in the work ADC does by serving as a support network for the ADC Legal Department. NAALA members will have access to a number of events and initiatives, including networkers, panels, continuing legal education programs (CLEs), and more. The initiative offers the opportunity to connect Arab American attorneys, law students, and other legal professionals across the nation. NAALA members will be kept abreast of ADC’s legal work as well as key issues affecting the Arab American and legal communities.
ADC is also developing a Legal Resource Guide/Referral List which will include information about knowing your rights and obtaining legal assistance as well as a national listing of attorneys in the network.
Information about NAALA can be found here. ADC encourages all legal professionals and law students to become a part of the initiative to engage themselves in the work ADC does. For more information or to join NAALA visit the website or email legal@adc.org.
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
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