It’s a great honor that our participation was requested for the 2009 Mothers Acting Up (MAU) Calendar, The Moment.
If you’re interested to know what it’s about:
The MAU Calendar, The Moment, is a weekly engagement calendar that features portraits of people who inspire our own activism – from new moms, to Isabel Allende, Paul Hawken, Mukhtar […]

Every year, millions of students worldwide prepare excitedly for a new academic year - a journey that will equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to become active and productive citizens. But instead of worrying about homework, pop-up quizzes and detention, Baha’i students in Iran worry about being admitted to academic institutions in the […]

In order to remedy his disturbing temptations, Saudi cleric Muhammad al-Habadan proposes a highly convenient solution for women: one-eyed veil.
A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to […]

The eastern world has been in many ways vilified and demonized, through popular cinema and various other mediums. We have lost sight of the fact that from the east we have been given many gifts of knowledge, culture and language. Yet, it is easy to only recall violence, terrorism and chaos when thinking of […]

Good day to you all,
I am posting this topic in order to learn more about what it is exactly that youth are lacking in the Middle East region? What is it that we want the most? Is there a lack in opportunity for us? Do we need something that can make our “dream come […]

On the 26th of February,  a 10-year-old girl was sprayed with a chemical irritant while attending evening prayers with her family in a Dayton. Ohio mosque. According to the police report, the girl saw two men standing outside a basement window, upon which one of them sprayed her with still-unknown chemical. The girl immediately felt […]

America has always been a land of new frontiers. From the time that Columbus first set foot here, to the time that pioneers set out to settle the West, to the time that Americans set out for the moon, there has always been a sense here that there are new frontiers to explore. And yet, […]

Judge 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 in exchange for a bribe, acknowledged his rulings have caused “some tensions.”
In the second day […]

It seems like happy events in Muslim and Jewish calendars are considering a joint statement: “Make Peace and serve your creator”. Well that is how it comes to my mind. Muslims in ME and all over the world have had one month of fasting and praying, being G-d’s guest while breakfasting, this is how they […]

In less than six weeks the American people will be casting their votes for their next President. The 2008 Election Campaign has proven to be one of the most historically important, with regard to both gender and race. There has been an incredible amount of interest in the 2008 election campaign, not only for the […]

Here is a link to the press release. The play “Haram” addresses religious persecution in Iran. It is based on a true story. It is written by Chicagoan Jay Paul Deratany and debuts in Chicago in November.
Click here for the release.
Here is the web site for the play:
www.haramiran.com
– Ray Hanania
www.RadioChicagoland.com

Last Friday, World Vision and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) celebrated the achievements of a three year project that has helped hundreds of Lebanese farmers grow organic agriculture in Lebanon. The project - called the Sustainable Agri-Business Initiative for Lebanon Project - directly helped 800 farmers and over 4500 people in […]