ADC Presents the Rachel Corrie Memorial Award at the 2021 Alex Odeh Memorial Conference
The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is happy to present this year’s Rachel Corrie Memorial Award to Philip Weiss, founder of Mondoweiss.net.
This award is presented annually to an activist or an organization who has shown outstanding commitment to challenging all forms of human rights violations and advocating for freedom and justice in Palestine.
Please join us in congratulating Philip Weiss by registering for and attending our 2021 Alex Odeh Memorial Conference!
Philip Weiss is a New York writer who in 2005 founded the website Mondoweiss.net, which covers the Israel/Palestinian issue from a progressive perspective.
For many years he was a mainstream journalist with bylines in the New York Times, Esquire, Harper’s and other publications. He has published two books, including a novel, and is now writing music. Weiss lives with his wife Cynthia Kling, who helps lead an anti-incarceration organization, in the Hudson Valley in New York.
Register for the conference and join us for the Awards Ceremony at our 2021 Alex Odeh Conference! We will be at the Delta Hotel by Marriot in Garden Grove, CA, October 8-9.
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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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