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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 WNZK AM 690 radio in Detroit Friday July 6, 2012 with host Ray Hanania. www.RadioBaladi.com. Guest Alison Weir, executive director of If Americans Knew (www.IfAmericansKnew.org) discusses the controversy surrounding the death of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid of the New York Times and the refusal of the mainstream news media to cover the story or criticize the New York Times, which Shadid told his wife should be held responsible if he dies as he prepared to enter Syria. Shadid died allegedly of an asthma attack while trying to enter Syria on Feb. 16, 2012. But before he left, he told his wife Nada Bakri, also a journalist, that if anything happens to him to blame the New York Times. They are responsible for his death, he said. We also discuss the Palestine-Israel conflict and the failure of American Arabs to convey the facts to the American public, and discuss some of those facts. Weir explains how she became involved in monitoring the conflict as a journalist and activist 12 years ago in 2000.

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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 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 with host Ray Hanania Friday May 11, 2012, 8 am EST www.RadioBaladi.com, with guests:

8 am (Detroit): Lina Matta of the ANA Contemporary Arab film series starts on Wednesday May 9th and runs thru the 15th in New York. For more information, visit online at www.anaarabcinema.com.

8:20 Hasan Nawash of the Palestine Center of Detroit discusses the upcoming Nakba commemoration dinner in Dearborn, Michigan May 20

8:40 am Detroit attorney Joumana Kayrouz discusses the upcoming 2012 Lebanon Emigrant Beauty pre-Pageant competition being held in Dearborn May 24. The American pre-pageant competition, open to Lebanese American women between the ages of 17 and 27, will be held Thursday, May 24 at the Greenfield Banquet Hall, 4770 Greenfield, in Dearborn, Michigan. The winner of the Dearborn beauty pageant will join pre-pageant winners from more than 35 other countries at Castle Assouf in Dhour Shweir, Lebanon on August 11. Get information at www.MissLebanonEmigrants.com. Clcik here to read the release

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Radio Chicagoland on WSBC 1240 AM in Chicagoland and Northern Illinois, and WCFJ 1470 Am radio in the Southlands and Northwest Indiana with host Ray Hanania, Sunday May 6, 2012. www.RadioChicagoland.com

- 8 AM - Bryan Smith is the Executive Director of the Township Officials of Illinois. The Township Officials of Illinois have released a report by noted researcher Wendell Cox that finds that townships in the Chicagoland area and Illinois provide valuable services to taxpayers and that these townships are now unfairly under attack. The report shows that small local governments, such as townships, spend and borrow less than other forms of government; give individuals a close connection and accountability with their elected officials; save taxpayers money; and provide top-notch, coordinated services. The full report can be found at (Click here)

- 8:30 AM - Syrian American Council member Sana Khatib discusses the fight to unseat Bashar al-Assad as president-for-life and dictator of Syria. She's also the coordinator of the Text for Syria Campaign at www.text4syria.com

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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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Radio Baladi, Friday April 6, 2012 with Ray Hanania. WNZK AM 690 broadcast in Detroit and online. www.RadioBaladi.com

We discuss the future of Egypt, the growing conflict with Israel and the prospects for Democracy there with Khaled Sayed, the director of the film "Egypt: The Story of the Revolution." Click to go to Khaled's film web page.  (Read this article about Egyptian presidential politics.) Click here for an overview of the candidates for Egypt's presidency

8:45 AM Dr. Opada Alzohaili completed his internal medicine degree from Damascus University Medical School in Damascus, Syria.  He had his internal medicine training at Wayne state university and finished  Endocrinology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Alzohaili is Board Certified in Endocrinology  with special emphasis on the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, insulin resistance, the management of polycystic ovarian disease, and obesity.  He is an assistant professor of endocrinology at Wayne State University in Detroit

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Radio Baladi WNZK AM 690 Radio Friday March 30, 2012. We discuss programs to help Arabs in America including a scholarship grant program for Syrian Students, and also a program by the HCEF "Know Thy Heritage" to send Palestinian students back to Palestine. We also talk about the upcoming 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912 and the Arabs who were aboard the Titanic, a fact that James Cameron barely referenced in his big screen theatrical movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Click here for more information on the Arabs on the Titanic. Hosted by Ray Hanania. 60 minutes. www.RadioBaladi.com

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