Category: Arab Americans
Posted on September 1, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)
Arab American journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous, a producer at Democracy Now, was arrested outside the GOP Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota along with host Amy Goodman and Nicole Salazar. They were covering a street protest. The National Arab American Journalists …
Posted in
Arab Americans,
Media |
Tagged
Amy Goodman,
arrests,
Democracy Now,
NAAJA,
Nicole Salazar,
protests,
Republican National Convention,
Sharif Abdel Kaddous |
17 Comments
Posted on August 29, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)
The Democratic Convention may have been exciting for those privileged few who were in their front convention seats. But from the bleachers of mainstream America where most Americans sat in front of their TV screens, the convention started out slow …
Posted in
Arab Americans,
Politics |
Tagged
American politics,
Barack Obama,
change,
Democratic Convention,
Hillary Clinton,
hope,
John McCain,
Middle East |
2 Comments
Posted on August 16, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)
I had to laugh when I read Steve Huntley’s column in Friday’s Chicago Sun-Times. Steve, my former editor there, has fashioned himself as one of the leading promoters of anti-Muslim hate. He has company at the Sun-Times although the ranks …
Posted in
Arab Americans |
Tagged
American news media,
bias,
book publishing,
Chicago Sun-Times,
Conrad Black,
Islamic hate-mongering,
Muslim bashing,
Muslims,
Ramadan. Islam,
Random House,
Western journalism |
15 Comments
Posted on July 4, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)
The 4th of July is all about American history and patriotism, so here goes a few observations: I’m sitting at a pool in Western Michigan at Silver Lakes, getting ready to go by the huge Dunes here to watch the …
Posted in
Arab Americans,
Ethics,
Society |
7 Comments
Posted on May 15, 2008 by Shobrawy
Whenever election time comes around and all the candidates become poised in partisan battles the urge for people to label their peers liberal or conservative becomes more appealing. I always find this cycle tiring because friends, family and readers try …
Posted in
Arab Americans,
Assholes,
Politics,
USA |
2 Comments
Posted on April 24, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)
It’s always distressing when any public official or leader is accused of misconduct and bribery and abusing their responsibilities to the public, but in Chicago a huge corruption scandal is taking place that really pains me because of the large …
Posted in
Arab Americans |
Tagged
Ali Ata,
Antoine "Tony" Rezko,
Arab Americans,
Chicago ADC,
corruption,
George W. Bush,
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich,
indictments,
Palestinians,
Patrick Fitzgerald |
1 Comment
Posted on April 5, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)
I can take criticism. I get it all the time. But what does push me to respond is when the critics resorts to distortions and lies to make their point. One such criticism focused on the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour by …
Posted in
Arab Americans,
Arab Christians,
Entertainment,
Ethics,
Freedom of Speech,
Humor,
Islam,
Israel,
Media,
Palestine,
Taboos |
13 Comments
Posted on April 2, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)
I thought this column on what I think are the hypocrisies of the U.S. prosecutions of Halliburton/KBR employees and employee sub-contractors might be of interest to the group. One of those targeted is a guy named Ali Hijazi who is …
Posted in
Arab Americans,
Iraq,
Middle East,
War |
Tagged
Ali Hizaji,
hypocrisy,
indictments,
Iraq war corruption,
Jeff Mazon,
Justice Department,
Kuwait |
2 Comments
Posted on February 12, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)
The University of Chicago’s Arab community was a big disappointment for me when we performed there for MASA-Israel Journeys and Hillel — not only would they not attend the open performance of the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour, they even refused to …
Posted in
Arab Americans,
Fun Stuff,
Humor,
Islam,
Israel,
Palestine,
Palestine/Israel,
Politics,
USA |
9 Comments
Posted on February 9, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)
(Chicago) — Well, I’m off this morning on a 10-day tour of selected campuses in the United States for the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour to see if the experiment works in the US as well as it has in Israel and …
Posted in
Arab Americans,
Creativity,
Culture,
Current Events,
Entertainment,
Fun Stuff,
Humor,
Islam,
Israel,
Middle East,
Palestine,
Satire,
USA |
10 Comments
