Emgage hires former Illinois Congressional aide to help expand their reach
Shadin Maali named new Emgage Senior Director of Growth and Operations
Emgage is pleased to announce that Shadin Maali has been named Emgage’s new Senior Director of Growth and Operations.
In her new role, Maali will oversee operations to ensure maximum efficiency and productivity and will work to solidify, expand, and diversify Emgage’s reach into new areas and communities.
“Shadin is an excellent addition to our organization, with extensive experience in both politics and community building,” said Wa’el Alzayat, Emgage CEO.
“Her expertise working with Arab and Muslim American communities across the country will serve Emgage greatly.”
Prior to Emgage, Maali, a Palestinian American, worked as Chief of District Affairs for Congresswoman Marie Newman.
Prior to Congress, Shadin worked as Principal at the Allen Austin/Gaines International Chicago office where she matched executives in key roles with the top building and design firms in the country.
She is a strong coalition and relationship builder, representing one of the largest Arab and Muslim American communities in the country. Maali is also a small business owner, a wife, and mother of two daughters.
About Emgage
Emgage educates and mobilizes Muslim American voters in support of policies that enable our communities to thrive and democracy to flourish. Our programs include Get Out The Vote, voter education, and leadership training.
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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