Category: Features

Some perspectives and notes from Kushner’s Peace to Prosperity Confab

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Some perspectives and notes from Kushner’s Peace to Prosperity Confab An Overview of the Bahrain Peace to Prosperity Conference, June 25-26, 2019. Here is a series of Op-Eds, segments of important comments, and links toi interesting information. What you will find below in this post: Op-Ed by Ray Hanania: Empowering Palestinians means delivering the promises…

Arab News, Business, Features, Gulf States, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine & Jordan, Politics, Ray Hanania

Census and (lack of) Sensibility in the way nation’s manipulate population data

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Census and (lack of) Sensibility in the way nation’s manipulate population data Governments around the world manipulate their Census data on populations in order to undermine minority rights and strengthen government abuses against minorities. In the United States, the government has used the Census for decades as a means of suppressing the actual numbers of…

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New book: The Road to Nablus

June 12, 2019June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

New book: The Road to Nablus The Road to Nablus is the extraordinary fictionalized true story of the author’s father, Abed Hadi, and his escape from a Palestinian refugee camp in the 1940s, chronicling his remarkable journey to his eventual home in St. Louis, Missouri. As a young boy Abed Hadi survived a massacre, a death…

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UIC student goes to Morocco on State Department scholarship

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

UIC student goes to Morocco on State Department scholarship University of Illinois at Chicago sophomore Luana Davila of Joliet has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco this summer. Davila, who is a classics major and Arabic minor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and…

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Iraqi American Woman Wins IndieFEST International Film Awards

May 18, 2019June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Iraqi American Woman Wins IndieFEST International Film Awards Iraqi born filmmaker Weam Namou wins a prestigious Award of Excellence from the IndieFEST Film Awards (women filmmaker category) for her latest production with and Eric Hoffer, the award-winning author of 13 books. The award will be given for Weam Namou’s exciting feature documentary, The Great American…

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Book Review: A Darkly humorous saga set in Post 9/11 America and the Middle East

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Book Review: A Darkly humorous saga set in Post 9/11 America and the Middle East When All Else Fails by author Rayyan Al-Shawaf begins on September 12th, 2001. It is the story of Hunayn, a luckless and lovelorn Iraqi college student living in Orlando, Florida, after having graduated from high school in Beirut. Hunayn’s life is…

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US Arab Radio wishes everyone a Happy Ramadan

May 5, 2019August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

US Arab Radio wishes everyone a Happy Ramadan Happy Ramadan: United In Faith And Humanity Ramadan is the month of mercy, love, tolerance, and peace, and US Arab Radio welcomes the holy month this year with an array of new programs under the title “We are all God’s Servants.” Founder and president of US Arab…

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US Arab Radio showcases special features during Ramadan

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

US Arab Radio showcases special features during Ramadan Happy Ramadan: United In Faith And Humanity Detroit May 2 / 2019 : Ramadan is the month of mercy, love, tolerance, and peace, and US Arab Radio welcomes the holy month this year with an array of new programs under the title “We are all God’s Servants.”…

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Shalala and other Congress members introduce Arab Heritage Month bill

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Shalala and other Congress members introduce Arab Heritage Month bill The Arab American Institute congratulated Congresswoman Donna Shalala and other members of Congress for introducing legislation to recognize April as Arab American Heritage month. Resolutions have been approved in two dozens states including a law passed in Illinois to recognize April as Arab American Heritage…

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Elected officials celebrate Arab Heritage Month, April

April 12, 2019March 12, 2020 rayhanania No Comments

Elected officials celebrate Arab Heritage Month, April More than 100 elected officials and Arab American community leaders came together on April 10 to celebrate the revival of Arab American Heritage month, April. The commemoration of Arab American contributions to this country and their culture was codified in a state law introduced by Illinois House Speaker…

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New documentary “Jihadists” explores extremist movement

April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

New documentary “Jihadists” explores extremist movement New documentary “Jihadists” travels deep into Jihadi controlled territory to reveal the inner workings of extremist Islam, on DVD & Digital April 2, Directed by François Margolin & Lemine Ould Salem While the impending defeat of Islamic State’s caliphate is being celebrated by media pundits, the ideology of Islamic extremism that…

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Cook County Board approves April Arab Heritage Month proclamation

March 24, 2019March 24, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Cook County Board approves April Arab Heritage Month proclamation Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison introduces a proclamation honoring April as Arab American Heritage Month at the board meeting March 20, 2019, in coordination with the passage of a State of Illinois Law designating April as Arab American Heritage month. The Cook County Board on Wednesday,…

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Arab American National Museum celebrates Arab American Heritage Month April

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Arab American National Museum celebrates Arab American Heritage Month April Free walk-in admission, publication of new informational booklet, diverse programs set for April 2019 Dearborn, Mich. (March 18, 2019) – Since the first Arab immigrants arrived in the United States of America in the 1800s, they and their descendants have left an indelible mark on…

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Afula city council members swear to ‘preserve city’s Jewish character’

December 19, 2018December 19, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Afula city council members swear to ‘preserve city’s Jewish character’ The Jewish Nation-State Law effect: Afula city council members swear to ‘preserve city’s Jewish character’. Adalah demands municipality immediately rescind racist oath; Adalah fears northern city ban on non-residents in public park is aimed at Arab citizens from surrounding communities. Half a year after Israel…

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ADC Salutes senior staff attorney Yolanda Rondon

December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

ADC Salutes senior staff attorney Yolanda Rondon Senior Staff attorney at the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee honored for her dedication to fighting for civil and human rights ADC thanks Senior Staff Attorney Ms. Yolanda Rondon for her over five years of service and dedication to the community. Ms. Rondon’s tenure at ADC ends today, and…

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Palestinian standup comic Nasr Abu Ali Owaynat discusses his career

December 17, 2018June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Palestinian standup comedian Nasr Abu Ali Owaynat discusses his career By Ray Hanania Chicagoland Palestinian American comedian Nasr Abu Ali Owaynat will be performing comedy at the renown Chicagoland comedy club Riddles on Jan. 10, 2019. Abu Ali was born to a Palestinian American immigrant and an American mother from Kentucky. He started doing comedy…

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Life for Relief distributes meals for Thanksgiving

November 19, 2018November 19, 2018 Saba Ibraheem No Comments

Life for Relief distributes meals for Thanksgiving Life For Relief & Development distributes Thanksgiving meals at Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries By Saba Ibraheem Life For Relief & Development, a Muslim American Charity, joined the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries to collect and distribute Thanksgiving meals to hundreds of families in the Greater Detroit Region. The mission…

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Arab themes dominate 32nd Annual Israeli Film Festival in Los Angeles

October 31, 2018October 31, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Arab themes dominate 32nd Annual Israeli Film Festival in Los Angeles Films include “Foreign Land,” “In Her Footsteps,” “The Oslo Diaries,” “Avanti Popolo,” “Tzeva Adom: Color Red” The 32nd Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the United States and taking place November 6th – 20th, will premiere…

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