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RAY HANANIA — Op-Ed writer, author, radio host, podcaster 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. 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. Click here to send Ray Hanania email. Follow RayHanania on Gettr.com, the uncensored Twitter Ray Hanania on Gettr, the new Twitter

Tyrant: Anti-Arab American hate TV offers new program this summer

May 29, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania 7 Comments

Tyrant: Anti-Arab American hate TV offers new program this summer By Ray Hanania One of the most vicious and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim programs on television was Homeland. It replaced the equally anti-Arab hateful program 24, which returned to television last week. Both had one thing in common: The fictional heroes in Homeland (on the notorious anti-Arab cable…

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Campaign to silence Christians who challenge Arab World discrimination

May 24, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania 5 Comments

Campaign to silence Christians who challenge Arab World discrimination By Ray Hanania Since as long as I have been speaking out for Palestinian rights and against Israeli oppression, I have also been challenging the refusal of the Arab World to address the equally serious issue of extremist Muslim persecution of Christians. HASHTAG ALERT: #FreeMidEastChristians …

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Arab Americans left out of Chicago event, again

May 15, 2014October 30, 2024 rayhanania 1 Comment

Arab Americans left out of Chicago event, again By Ray Hanania When the United States government called on me during my sophomore year in college to fight in Vietnam, I didn’t wait until they drafted me. There was a chance they wouldn’t, but my Draft number was around 65. So I went and enlisted for…

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Lebanese American Heisman Trophy winner Manziel lags 22nd in draft to the Cleveland Browns

May 12, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Lebanese American Heisman Trophy winner Manziel lags 22nd in draft to the Cleveland Browns By Ray Hanania Not everyone knows that NFL Quarterback Johnny Manziel, 22, is of Lebanese American heritage, so that can’t be a reason why he took a 22nd seat draft last week moving from Texas A&M to the Cleveland Browns. The 2012 Heisman…

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A 9/11 book the world needs to read, Jeremy Scahill’s “Dirty Wars”

May 10, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

A 9/11 book the world needs to read, Jeremy Scahill’s “Dirty Wars” By Ray Hanania Published in the Saudi Gazette, Sunday May 11, 2014/Distributed by Creators Syndicate Click here to View Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen October 2008, taken by Muhammad ud-Deen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In 39 years of professional journalism, I have never come…

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Jews and Arabs together: I am lucky to experience something I wish more could

April 29, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Jews and Arabs together: I am lucky to experience something I wish more could By Ray Hanania I’m lucky. Or maybe some might call it blessed. Others may just say fortunate. A few say plagued. I have and will again experience something that many Jews and Palestinians may never really experience. Something where we all come…

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Pro-Israel propaganda keeps Americans stupid when it comes to Israel-Palestine

April 24, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Pro-Israel propaganda keeps Americans stupid when it comes to Israel-Palestine By Ray Hanania I came across a really stupid letter in the Columbia Dispatch newspaper this morning. Letter writer Barbara Doll (“U.S. is inconsistent in reaction to Crimea,” April 8) compared Israel’s presence in Palestine to Russia taking over Crimea. There is no comparison. Assuming…

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Travel: The obligatory visit to the Arabs of Dearborn

April 16, 2014June 12, 2019 rayhanania 2 Comments

Travel: The obligatory visit to the Arabs of Dearborn By Ray Hanania I have been traveling to Dearborn, Michigan since I was a young child back in the 1950s. Back then, it was about the only place where you could purchase original ingredients to make Middle Eastern food recipes. So we would often make the…

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Olmos argues “race” is not a label for divisions at diversity conference

April 15, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Olmos argues “race” is not a label for divisions at diversity conference Hollywood movie star Edward James Olmos pushed an audience of more than 400 educators and diversity professionals to the edge arguing that it is wrong to look at human beings and believe that they are really divided into different races. The Mexican American…

American Arabs, Entertainment, News, religion

Cicero Orthodox Church celebrates 20 year anniversary of Miraculous Weeping Icon of the Virgin Mary

April 14, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 2 Comments

Cicero Orthodox Church celebrates 20 year anniversary of Miraculous Weeping Icon of the Virgin Mary Weeping Icon symbolizes the suffering of Christians in the Holy Land, Pastor of Church says By Ray Hanania St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago’s west suburb of Cicero will hold a special service on Tuesday April 22 to honor…

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Norman Podhoretz and the face of modernday hate

April 13, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Norman Podhoretz and the face of modernday hate How the mainstream American media coddles hate, racism and bigotry By Ray Hanania If someone wrote that the Jews murdered Christ, or that they were engaged in drinking the blood of Christian children, no respectable news media would publish their vicious hate filled words. But that is…

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Columbia College reinstates Palestinian professor’s censored class

April 7, 2014April 13, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Columbia College reinstates Palestinian professor’s censored class By Ray Hanania Columbia College reinstated a class that had been stripped from Palestinian American Professor Iymen Chehade following weeks of protests from education professionals and activists and within days of receiving a letter of protest from the Israeli director of the film which provoked an anonymous student…

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Suheir Hammad to perform at 11th Annual Diversity Conference April 10

April 6, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Suheir Hammad to perform at 11th Annual Diversity Conference April 10 Palestinian Poet Suheir Hammad will be among the many speakers and performers at the 11th Annual Images and Perceptions Conference to be held Thursday, April 10 at Byblos Banquet Hall, 7258 Chase Road, Dearborn, Michigan. The conference, organized by Siham Awada Jaafar, will also…

American Arabs, Features

Battle rages over Easter Egg hunt in Dearborn

April 6, 2014October 30, 2018 rayhanania 5 Comments

Battle rages over Easter Egg hunt in Dearborn By Ray Hanania As Christian Arabs prepare to celebrate Holy Week and Easter following 40 days of Lenten observances, a controversy has risen over whether or not a school in Dearborn should have been used to promote an Easter Egg hunt by a local Presbyterian Church. Majed…

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Houston celebrates Arab Heritage Month (April) with book event

April 4, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Houston celebrates Arab Heritage Month (April) with book event In celebration of April as The National Arab American Heritage Month, The Arab American Cultural and Community Center of Houston (ACC), cordially invites you to a special event in its month-long festivities: BOOK SIGNING, April 8th, 2014 at 7:30 PM at the BeHuman Gallery, 12848 Queensbury Ln. Suite…

American Arabs, Entertainment, Features, Ray Hanania

Syria and Ukraine sessions, and keynote speakers added to ASIL-ILA joint Conference

April 4, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Syria and Ukraine sessions, and keynote speakers added to ASIL-ILA joint Conference Some sessions streamed live; 2014 Book Awards announced WASHINGTON, DC – The American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the American Branch of the International Law Association (ILA) have added several highlights to the upcoming ASIL Annual Meeting-ILA Biennial Conference. The event, entitled…

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Comic Strip: Ikhras, Kim Kardashian and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad

April 4, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Comic Strip: Ikhras, Kim Kardashian and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad By Ray Hanania Kim Kardashian, the HUGE Reality TV star, has come out swinging for Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad and defending his government against the Syrian Rebels, claiming that the rebels are killing Armenians in Kesab (Kessab) near the Syrian border with Turkey, where 100 years…

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IkhrAss — The New Comic Strip

April 3, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

IkhrAss — the New Comic Strip Ikhras is a hate site that seeks to promote Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and to attack and undermine American Arabs who challenge dictatorships, hatred and paranoia. The new comic strip will help to expose Ikhras and its authors Thabet al-Arabi and Qassem Lufti, while addressing current news events. Click…

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