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Radio Baladi Friday July 27, 2012 www.RadioBaladi.com with Ray Hanania

8 AM (Detroit): Actor Amin El-Gamal joins us to discuss his recent role as an Egyptian blogger in the HBO hit series The Newsroom. Click for more info.

Not well publicized is the fact that Jessica Redfield, one of the murder victims in the Aurora, Colorado massacre, is actually a Palestinian American journalist by the name of Jessica Ghawi. Click to read her story

Ray Hanania's interview on national radio about the Arabs on the Titanic. Click to listen to the interview

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Radio Baladi July 20, 2012 with Ray Hanania WNZK AM 690 radio, 8-9 AM Eastern (EST) www.RadioBaladi.com.

On the eve of Ramadan, we discuss the religious attacks by Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann against a Muslim staffer with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Many Republican leaders like John McCain have come out and criticized Bachmann for singling out Huma Abedin, Clinton's logntime aide, because she is Muslim. Bachmann has charged that Abedin's relatives are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Ironically, Abedin's husband is disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, who before being forced to resign from office in June 2011 one year ago because of lewd conduct. Weiner was one of the most vicious anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian members of the US Congress. Is there a difference when it comes to justice in palestine between non-Arab Muslims and Arab Muslims? How could a Muslim marry someone so viciously anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian. The incident reminds us of the vicious attack directed at Mazen Asbahi, also by rightwing members of the Tea Party and Congress. We also discuss the battle in Syria and the impending demise of Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad, and also the hypocrisy that signles out and demonizes Christians in the Arab and Muslim World with callers. Guests include columnist Ali Younes.

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Radio Baladi Friday July 13, 2012 www.RadioBaladi.com with host Ray Hanania on WNZK AM 690 radio in Detroit, Michigan. American Arab and Muslim and Middle East discussion.

8 am (Detroit): Israeli settler terrorists now selling dates harvested in the occupied territories to Muslims during Ramadan. The world's biggest rip-off and conspiracy. The settlers do not put the word Israel on their date products. Be careful of which dates you buy this Ramadan. We'll be talking about this controversy with author Aref Assef who discovered Israeli dates stolen from Palestinian lands being sold in New Jersey Arab-owned stores. (If it doesn't say "Product of Palestine" on the box they are not genuine Palestinian harvested dates.) Read Aref's column.

8:30 am (Detroit) Columnist Ali Younes discusses the fight between a Jordanian Member of the Parliament and an activist former Jordanian Member of Parliament on a Jordanian TV show. Jordanian MP Mohammed Shawabka throws shoe and pulls gun on live TV in Jordan in heated namecalling fuss with a Jordanian Activist. Click to watch on Youtube

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July 7, 2012. The Opinion Makers. In this episode of The Opinion Makers audio podcast, co-hosts Ray Hanania and Ali Younes discuss the death of Palestinian President Yasir Arafat. Was he murdered? The Palestinians are exhuming his body to investigate traces of Polonium 210 which two years later was determined to have been the poison used to murder a former Russian spy. Also, Hanania and Younes discuss the vicious hatred from Israelis including the column by Lenny Ben-David in the Times of Israel, and example of the kind of racist commentary that pagues Israeli discourse.

And, Hanania and Younes discuss the circumstances of the Feb. 2012 death of two-time Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Anthony Shadid. Why isn’t the mainstream American news media exploring charges that the New York Times forced Shadid to go to Syria against his will, and the cause of his death? Is it media bias against American Arabs.

And in the final segment, Hanania and Younes discuss the YouTube video of Jordanian Member of Parliament Mohammed Shawabka who while debating a political activist named Mansour Sayf al-Din Murad during a live Jordanian TV broadcast pulled out a gun. The two were discussing aspects of Jordanian politics including attitudes surrounding the uprising in Syria. Shawabka stood up and began screaming and pointing at Murad, who was sitting opposite him, while the host of the program, Mohammed Habashneh, seated in the center, desperately urged his guests to “calm down.” Shawabka threw his shoe at Murad, causing Murad to stand up and knock over the table and then Shawabka pulled out a silver pistol.

Links to stories:

Ali Younes' columns:

http://english.alarabiya.net/index/searchengine/search_en?q=ali%20younes

Ray Hanania's columns

http://www.hanania.com and http://www.RadioChicagoland.com

Ali Younes is an award winning writer and political analyst based in Washington D.C. and he writes a regular column for the Al Arabiya Arabic news channel’s English language web site at English.alarabiyah.net

Ray Hanania is an award winning columnist and radio talk show host based in Chicago. He writes for the Saudi Gazette and Creators Syndicate. Reach him on his web site at www.RadioChicagoland.com

Biography of Yasir Arafat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat

Reuters story on autopsy demand on Arafat’s death

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/04/us-palestinians-arafat-israel-idUSBRE86309520120704

Lenny Ben-David’s hate column

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/for-the-palestinians-sake-its-time-to-kill-off-arafat/

Jordanian Member of Parliament pulls gun out on Jordanian TV Show

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordanian-mp-pulls-a-gun-on-his-critic-during-live-tv-debate/

The controversy over Anthony Shadid’s death

http://arabjournalists.blogspot.com/2012/07/controversy-over-anthony-shadids-death.html

New York Times responds to Shadid death charges

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/06/nyt-we-did-not-pressure-anthony-shadid-127137.html

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Radio Baladi broadcast every Friday on WNZK AM 690 radio in Detroit, Michigan live. Hosted by Ray Hanania. www.RadioBaladi.com. Guest is George Hishmeh, columnist for the Gulf News and Jordan Times and former editor-in-chief of the Star Newspaper in Lebanon. Discusses the presidential election context between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, events in Egypt and the election of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Also Syria and dictator Bashar al-Assad, and the challenges facing American Arabs and also the failure of American Arab leadership to lead.

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Radio Baladi with Ray Hanania Friday June 22, 2012. Guest is Amin El Gamal, Egyptian American actor. Gamal discusses his starring role in Episode 5 of the first season of HBO Cable TV's The Newsroom starring Jeff Daniels. Gamal plays an Egyptian blogger in Egypt reporting on the pro-Democracy protests and the Arab Spring. The series begins Sunday June 24. Gamal's episode 5 features broadcasts on Sunday July 22, 2012. WNZK AM radio. Live interview. 8 AM EST Detroit region. www.RadioBaladi.com. The Newsroom explores issues in American journalism and the rise of opinion passing itself off as news. The station is a composite of CNN, MSNBC, etc.

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Radio Baladi Friday June 15, 2012. Host Ray Hanania interviews award winning columnist Ali Younes and Dana AbuShaqra, the niece of Haidar AbuShaqra who mysteriously disappeared on Dec. 7, 2011 in Connecticut. Was he the victim of a crime or the FBI and Justice Department campaign against American Arabs and Muslims? Also interviewed is Imam Mardini about an arson hate crime against the Muslim Community Center in Detroit. www.RadioBaladi.com. Broadcast every Friday on WNZK AM 690 radio.

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Radio Chicagoland Sunday May 13, 2012 with Ray Hanania www.RadioChicagoland.com

Topics include discussion about Gay Marriage, President Barack Obama, Congressman Joe Walsh, and more

Plus a brief interview at the end of the show with Khaled Al-Ameena, the editor-in-chief of the English language Saudi Gazette in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, calls to talk about US Saudi Relations, the war against al-Qaeda and the effort by Gulf Arab States to stop the brutality against civilians in Syria by Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad. Visit the Saudi Gazette at www.SaudiGazette.com.sa

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Radio Baladi www.RadioBaladi.com Friday May 4, 2012 8-9 am EASTERN WNZK AM 690 Radio with Ray Hanania

THIS WEEK: 8 am (Detroit): 10 months after the killing of Jessica Mokdad, we discuss the investigation and the aspects of the murder. Was it an "Honor Killing?" Is it being used by extremists for political reasons. Right wing hate groups Like Spencer and Geller have tried to turn the issue into an anti-Islamic one rather than compassion for a murdered young woman ... Click to read story. ... Click here to Visit Jessica' Mokdad's Facebook Memorial Page ... Click here to view the CBS News report on Jessica's StepDad who was accused of murdering her

Also, is America safer one year since the killing of Osama Bin Laden?

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Radio Baladi live on WNZK AM 690 radio www.RadioBaladi.com with host Ray Hanania explores the controversy of how Christians are treated and mistreated by Israelis in the Holy Land, Israel and under occupation with callers on our weekly Detroit region live broadcast.

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