Category: Commentary

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

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…

Bloggers, Commentary, Ray Hanania

Would You Like Chicken Or Beef?

April 24, 2014April 13, 2019 Lilas Taha No Comments

Would You Like Chicken Or Beef? By Lilas Taha It was dinnertime, and I was ready to eat anything the waiter would put in front of me, be it chicken, beef or any high protein combination! But my client hadn’t made her choice yet, and so I waited for her to make up her mind. She…

Bloggers, Commentary, Spotlight

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…

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

Taybeh Christian Palestinians celebrate: Receiving the Holy Fire Once Again

April 19, 2014September 24, 2018 Maria Khoury 1 Comment

Taybeh Christian Palestinians celebrate: Receiving the Holy Fire Once Again By Maria C. Khoury, Ed.D. We have just celebrated the Miracle of the Holy Fire in Taybeh in a most magnificent way at the outskirts of our village approximately 5:30 pm local time on this Great and Holy Saturday while waiting all afternoon when this…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Features, Maria Khoury, Palestine & Jordan, religion, Spotlight

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

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…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Ray Hanania, Spotlight

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…

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

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…

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

Vanunu’s Family Affair and US-Israeli Reality-Check: Nukes and ‘Peace Talks’

April 4, 2014August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info 3 Comments

Vanunu’s Family Affair and US-Israeli Reality-Check: Nukes and ‘Peace Talks’ By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday the U.S. is questioning its role in the Israeli-Palestine peace talks, noting it was “reality-check time” for negotiators from both parties. In the past week, Israel cancelled the…

Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, News, Palestine & Jordan

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

Armenian American celebrity Kim Kardashian boosts Syrian dictator Assad

April 4, 2014January 9, 2019 Ali Younes No Comments

Armenian American celebrity Kim Kardashian boosts Syrian dictator Assad By Ali Younes and Sadallah Mahmoud While the mainstream American news media is no longer providing any in depth coverage of the raging civil war in Syria or the atrocities that has been committed by the Syrian regime or his extremist Al Qaida-linked opponents, two tweets by American…

Ali Younes, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Entertainment, News, Syria

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…

Bloggers, ComicStrip, Commentary

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

America and Saudi Women Again!

April 2, 2014June 12, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

America and Saudi Women Again! By Sheikha Al Dosary Before President Obama visited Saudi Arabia this last weekend, he was urged by 70 members of Congress who signed a bipartisan letter to raise critical human rights cases in Saudi Arabia. They also advised him to meet with Saudi female activists. Amnesty International also asked him…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Gulf States

Ustar Erdoğan, Stronger Than Ever

April 2, 2014September 24, 2018 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Ustar Erdoğan, Stronger Than Ever By Abdennour Toumi Contrary to all expectations of the opposition and the media, even in light of the Taqsim Square protests, the charges of corruption, the national security leaks, and the bold decision to ban social media, nothing prevented the AK Party from achieving a landslide victory in Sunday’s municipal…

Abdennour Toumi, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Spotlight

Saudi King Abdullah rearranges the line of Succession to the Saudi throne

March 31, 2014June 12, 2019 Ali Younes No Comments

Saudi King Abdullah rearranges the line of Succession to the Saudi throne By Ali Younes Prince Muqrin Bin Abdelaziz is set as the future King of Saudi Arabia, and the last one of his generation In an unprecedented move King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia appointed Prince Muqrin Bin Abdelaziz Al Saud, 68, as the Second…

Ali Younes, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary