Category: Bloggers

Israel forces Gaza Palestinians into cold

January 26, 2016September 24, 2018 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Israel controls the electricity and gas supplies to the Gaza Strip and imposes a harsh embargo on the nearly 2 million Palestinians living in the coastal strip near the Sinai Desert. But Palestinians are finding creative ways to get around Israel’s oppression, especially in fighting the cold Winter weather By Mohammed Asad Israel controls the…

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Palestinian Journalist Dying in Israeli Gulag

January 26, 2016January 26, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

In Bad Waters — Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq is dying in an Israeli Gulag. He is one of many thousands of Palestinians suffering in the Israeli prison system By Dezeray Lyn Muhammad al-Qiq is starving to death. He is unconscious. He hasn’t taken a meal in over 60 days. He is 33. He is a journalist. He has been placed on ‘administrative detention’…

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Reading the grinds in Arabian coffee

January 24, 2016January 25, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

If you have never had your coffee grounds read, you are missing out on understanding your potential future. The art of reading coffee grounds in the Middle East traces back to thousands of years of practice, fortune tellers and seers By Ray Hanania When I was younger, my mother and aunts used to read my…

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Storms, floods slam Gaza Strip

January 24, 2016January 24, 2016 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Storms slammed the Gaza Strip this week causing some flooding and forcing residents to seek shelter By Mohammed Asad Storms slammed the Gaza Strip this week causing some flooding and forcing residents to seek shelter A storm hits the Gaza Strip in Palestine. The photos show civilians seeking shelter, talking about gas, electricity shortages in theirs homes….

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Point Theme from MyThemeShop is the Worst

January 24, 2016February 18, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

Point Theme from MyThemeShop is the Worst “Point Theme” from MyThemeShop.com is the worst theme center for wordpress. The system is corrupt and flawed. Everytime they update their theme, it rearranges your design dramatically and you have to spend hours re-aligning your WordPress web site. Worse is that they exploit you and the force you…

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Boycott Not Answer to Lack of Oscar Diversity

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

African Americans left out of this year’s Oscar Nominations have again complained, but the focus seems not to be on diversity but rather on African Americans. Minority minorities and other people of color left out of the movie industry are being left out in this debate, too. The issue of the Hollywood bias isn’t about…

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Algeria, Ethnic Parties and Political Stability

January 18, 2016September 29, 2018 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Algeria — Political systems that demagogically restrict ethnic politics to a single dimension destabilize democracy in the long run, whereas systems that enrich multiple dimensions of ethnic identity can sustain it By Abdennour Toumi After years of political discussion, President Bouteflika and his team laid their cards on the table during a press conference led…

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Revolution and Pieces of Peace

January 17, 2016April 29, 2016 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

“The Revolution starts now, when you rise above your fear and tear the walls round you down.”-Steve Earle By Eileen Fleming “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures” as President John F. Kennedy said. Pieces of Peace include a state of tranquility…

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Flip or Flop HGTV one of my favorite shows

January 14, 2016September 29, 2018 rayhanania 3 Comments

There are so few positive images of American Arabs on television but one stands out, Tarek El Moussa who with his wife, Christina, star in the popular HGTV series Flip or Flop, purchasing and remodeling homes in need of major repair By Ray Hanania Most people buy and remodel maybe two or three of their own…

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Tunisia five years after the revolution: Was it worth it?

January 14, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

Tunisia five years after the revolution: Was it worth it? International Institute for Management (IMD) Professor Tawfik Jelassi discusses the country’s progress and challenges At the five-year mark after the Arab Spring uprisings, IMD Professor and former Tunisian minister Tawfik Jelassi talks about Tunisia today in an interview: What comes to your mind when you think…

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Israeli terrorists kill civilians in Gaza Strip

January 13, 2016September 29, 2018 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Israel fired missiles and shelled civilian areas of the Gaza Strip in another terrorist assault. The Israeli government has continued to terrorize civilians in the Gaza Strip hoping to force them to leave the region. It’s a part of Israel’s strategy to steal the land and force the non-Jews to leave Photos by Mohammed Asad GAZA…

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Who is Nikki Haley who bashed Obama, praised Israel?

January 13, 2016September 29, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Who is Nikki Haley who bashed Obama, praised Israel? Nikki Haley surfaced out of nowhere this week offering the nine minute rebuttal to the State of the Union speech by President Barack Obama. She was described as “Indian-America” (from India, not Native America) but she is Sikh and a conservative who opposes fundamental rights for immigrants…

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EU ban on settlement goods a moral necessity

January 12, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

The European Union properly voted to require Israel to correctly label products it produces in the lands it occupied in 1967. The Occupied West Bank and Golan Heights have been populated in violation of international law with armed and violent Jewish settlers on property taken from non-Jews who live under occupation and without fundamental human…

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Wheaton professor says views don’t contradict Christianity

January 8, 2016September 29, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins defended her actions in arguing that Muslims and Christians believe in the same God, but said she is confident she will prevail. Hawkins was suspended with pay by Wheaton College and is facing a termination hearing By Ray Hanania Wheaton College Political Science Professor Larycia Hawkins said Friday that she…

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New film explores challenges facing American Arabs

January 7, 2016April 13, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Usama Alshaibi’s documentary “American Arab” has its national television premiere on Tuesday, February 9, 2016, at 8 p.m. on WORLD Channel (check local listings), as part of the fourth season of AMERICA REFRAMED, public media’s newest documentary series. The film, made through Chicago production collective Kartemquin Films (makers of THE INTERRUPTERS), will be available for free streaming on www.worldchannel.org starting February…

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Wheaton College to fire Black teacher over Islam

January 7, 2016January 7, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

Wheaton college plans to fire an African American professor this week who last month wrote on her Facebook Page that Christians and Muslims believe in the same God. The censorship reflects the degradation of Christianity among Americans By Ray Hanania A lot of people wonder what would happen to Jesus if he lived in today’s…

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Christian College to fire professor for saying Christians and Muslims worship the same God

January 7, 2016January 7, 2016 Ali Younes No Comments

Wheaton College to fire professor for support of American Muslims

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An Open letter to Donald Trump on Islam

January 6, 2016September 29, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump has peeled back the hypocrisy of the rightwing conservative Republican Party, exposing hardcore racist views against Muslims and Islam. Many of those standing up to defend Muslims are among the true Christians By Ray Hanania Donald Trump has attracted huge following because of his willingness to speak to the mindset of…

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