On August 3rd, plans for a mosque to be built 600 feet from the site of New York City’s ground zero cleared the last municipal obstacle, causing New Yorkers and Americans in general to completely and utterly lose their minds. …
Posted in Arab Americans, Current Events, Islam, Islamophobia, USA | 18 CommentsWe’re starting off the year with a new podcast, and this time with Marwan Kamel, lead singer of the punk Middle Eastern band “Al Thawra.” I could try my luck writing my own introduction of this awesome band, but I …
Posted in Arab Americans, Creativity, Culture, Music, Podcasts, Politics, Syria, USA | 2 CommentsAll Mustafa an Egyptian American Muslim widower ever wanted to do was live the “American Dream.” And, maybe pay off some family debts, turn his small New Jersey falafel shop into a fancy restaurant, raise his two motherless children as …
Posted in Arab Americans, Film, Islam, USA | Tagged AmericanEast, Arabs, DVD, Hollywood movies, Muslims, post sept. 11, Ray Hanania | 1 CommentThis is an interview with an Arab American Muslim Palestinian Peace Activist living in Florida. She is explaining the war in Gaza and how complicated the situation is now in the Middle East. She is the author of “Arab Voices …
Posted in Arab Americans, Palestine, USA, Women | Tagged Activist, peace | 4 CommentsDespite the challenges of an American system that discourages their involvement, Arab Americans are involved in the political elections this week on all levels, as candidates, as voters and as controversies. Various sources estimate that there are between 3.5 and …
Posted in Arab Americans | Tagged Arab Americans, Barack Obama, bias, candidates, John McCain, Ralph Nader, United States elections | 1 CommentOn June 8, 1967, the Israeli military was in the midst of a war with its Arab neighbors. At the time, they were engaged in the battle and did not fully grasp how easily the Arab nation’s armies had collapsed …
Posted in Arab Americans, Current Events, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Palestine/Israel, Politics, USA, War | Tagged 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Admiral John McCain, coverup, massacre of 34 Americans, presidential election, propaganda, Senator John McCain, U.S.S. Liberty | 5 CommentsJudge in Halliburton contract corruption trial clashes with defense By Ray Hanania (DATELINE Peoria, Il, Sept. 30, 2008) — The judge in the controversial trial of Jeff Mazon, a former Halliburton procurement officer accused of intentionally inflating a contract payment …
Posted in Afghanistan, Arab Americans, Iraq, Kuwait | Tagged Afghanistan, Halliburton, Iraq war, Jeff Mazon, KBR, Kuwait, War related contract abuse | 1 CommentArab American voters face the same challenges they always face in elections: candidates who climb all over themselves to show how pro-Israel they are. There’s nothing wrong with being pro-Israel, but oftentimes the candidates embrace the most extremist views supporting …
Posted in Arab Americans | Tagged Arabs, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Joe Biden, John McCain, Middle East, Muslims, Palestine, Ray Hanania, Sarah Palin | 14 CommentsSarah Palin is clearly a powerful speaker, although in all honesty as I watched her read without any slipups her moving conservative perspective on the world, I kept thinking it was a monologue on Saturday Night Live and Palin was …
Posted in Arab Americans, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, Democrats, Denver, George W. Bush, GOP, hypocrisy, Joe Biden, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Republican National Convention, Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin | 2 CommentsThe candidacy of Senator Barrack Obama is a remarkable one by all accounts, from a historical perspective it is an unprecedented feat that an African American stands for the highest office in America and a candidate who was not born …
Posted in Arab Americans, Current Events, Politics, USA | 14 Comments