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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 …

American Arabs, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Arab Americans left out of Chicago event, again

May 15, 2014August 20, 2019 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 as chance they wouldn’t, but my number was around 65. So I went and enlisted for four…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Food, Ray Hanania, US Arab Politics

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…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Ray Hanania, Sports, Spotlight

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…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Ray Hanania

Who is Amal Alamuddin, reported George Clooney’s new fiancee

April 30, 2014September 24, 2018 Ali Younes No Comments

Who is Amal Alamuddin, reported George Clooney’s new fiancee An International lawyer who believes in one God, Allah, and in Reincarnation By Ali Younes The news that 36 years old Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin is reportedly engaged to American actor and Oscar winner George Clooney, 52, took Hollywood and the Middle East by…

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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…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Ray Hanania, Travel

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…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Christian & Muslim, Commentary, News, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania, religion

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

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…

American Arabs, Bloggers, ComicStrip, Commentary, Ray Hanania, Spotlight

Incumbent Washington DC mayor ousted, but American Arab candidate fails in bid

April 3, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Incumbent Washington DC mayor ousted, but American Arab candidate fails in bid By Ray Hanania The hurdle for American Arabs to overcome to win public office in America is high, but many continue to strive to shatter the glass ceiling and engage in American government at all levels as is their right as citizens. This…

American Arabs, News, Ray Hanania, US Arab Politics

American Politicians, Bought and Sold

April 2, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

American Politicians, Bought and Sold By Ray Hanania Creators Syndicate April 3, 2014 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wants to be president of the United States. He is showing how tough he is by standing up to claims he was involved in an outrageous abuse of government power. But when it comes to standing up to…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Ray Hanania, US Arab Politics

Coalition claims victory over Silverstein anti-Arab hate legislation

April 2, 2014June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Coalition claims victory over Silverstein anti-Arab hate legislation State Senate Committee rejects Silverstein bill to censor American critics of foreign country April 2, 2014, Chicago – Yesterday afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Illinois Senate rejected Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 59, proposed by Senator Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago), that urged Illinois university and college presidents…

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