Category: Ray Hanania

Christa McAuliffe, an American Arab in shuttle disaster

January 28, 2016January 28, 2016 rayhanania 1 Comment

30 years ago, the world watched in horror as the Shuttle Challenger exploded on live television 73 seconds after lift-off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Among the seven astronauts who died was the first American Arab astronaut, Christa McAuliffe By Ray Hanania I remember standing in the offices of one of my editors…

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Nothing Holy about the Holy Land

January 28, 2016January 28, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

There is nothing Holy about the Holy Land. Israel complains a lot about Palestinians, but rarely does a self-evaluation that might expose its own hypocrisies on things like normalization, hate and hypocrisy. If it did, and corrected things, we might have a genuine peace By Ray Hanania Much is criticized by Israelis about how Arabs…

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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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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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Recipe: Nenae ma’a Lemon (Lemon with Mint) drink

January 22, 2016January 22, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

Recipe: Nenae ma’a Lemon (Lemon with Mint) drink This is a very popular and tasty Middle Eastern refreshment. It’s easy to make but requires fresh mint leaves. Mint (nenae in Arabic) is an easy to grow plant that produces a wonderful and essential flavor and ingredient in many Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Arab recipes. The plant grows…

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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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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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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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Recipe: Arabian fried rice with lamb

January 12, 2016September 29, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Recipe: Arabian fried rice with lamb. Diced lamb mixed with fried rice, served hot. Blending Mediterranean and Asian cuisine into the perfect mix. Arabian fried rice with lamb is an easy to prepare variation of a very popular Asian food dish and it might open the door to learning more about the spread of the Arab World…

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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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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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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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Christians targeted by Islamic extremists & more

December 31, 2015December 31, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Hillary Clinton complains that Christians are facing genocide at the hands of extremists in the Islamic community, but is silent when it comes to Israeli persecution of Christians By Ray Hanania The Christmas holidays always bring conflict into my life. #‎SaveArabChristians‬ I share the same tribulations most others feel when it comes to Christmas: I’m…

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Recipe: Arabian lamb, egg skillet for breakfast

December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Long before we had technology to chill food, the early bedouins and family clans in Palestine, Jordan and the Levant including Syria and Lebanon, learned to cook using common sense. Lamb and goat were small animals and turned out to be a great meat source. Cattle would have been wasted. A breakfast was always an…

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Nation’s richest lawyer Arab Joe Jamail dies

December 23, 2015December 23, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

American Arab attorney Yuseff “Joseph” Dahr Jamail, the wealthiest personal injury lawyer in America, died this week, it was announced Wednesday. Jamail’s estate was valued at more than $1.5 billion by Forbes Magazine By Ray Hanania Yuseff “Joseph” Dahr Jamail, recognized the wealthiest lawyer in America, died on Wednesday December 23, 2015 at the age…

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Wheaton College: Forgetting what it is to be Christian

December 17, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

The fact that Americans are uneducated is pretty clear from their race-driven politics that usually causes more problems than bring solutions. But worse is the lack of education among the very institutions tasked with educating, like Wheaton College, which declared itself an ignorant bastion of racist stupidity this week By Ray Hanania As a Christian,…

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Dearborn Muslims plan rally against hate

December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 rayhanania 5 Comments

Muslims in Dearborn will hold a “rally against hate” to protest rising Islamaphobia in politics and in the conservative American news media. Organizers are using the Twitter hashtag #DearbornStrong to rally supporters not only in Dearborn, but across the nation ADC Michigan Plans protests on Thursday to strengthen fight against racist and religious discrimination By…

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