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Friday Mar 01, 2019
Friday Mar 01, 2019
03-01-19 Ray Hanania Podcast: Jussie Smollett, Chicago's Mayoral Elections, Israel's alleged war crimes
This is the Ray Hanania Podcast for March 1, 2019, a weekly overview of all my opinion columns, my radio interviews, and my reports on Middle East topics and on Mainstream American politics.
This week's topics cover columns I have written on the Jussie Smollett racism and homophobic hoax and the disgraceful lack of professionalism by ABC Good Morning America Anchor Robin Roberts; The Chicago Mayoral Elections and the aftermath of Mayor Rahm Emanuel; the award of this year's Best Actor Oscar to Egyptian American Rami Malek for his role in Bohemian Rhapsody with a remembrance of the win by Vanessa Redgrave in 1976 for the Holocaust film Julia; and the United Nations Human Rights Commission's report on Israel's war crimes in Gaza.
Ray Hanania's Middle East columns are published in the Arab News Newspaper, the Middle East Monitor online, and the Arab Daily News online. His mainstream columns are published at SuburbanChicagoland.com and in seven newspapers in the Southwest region of Chicagoland including The Regional News, The Reporter, the Des Plaines Valley News, and the Southwest News-Herald.
This podcast also includes my radio show broadcasts in Detroit on the 2nd Friday of every month live on WNZK AM 690 and also live online… THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights …
For more information on all my columns, my writings, and my podcasts, go to my website at www.Hanania.com
Our podcasts are archived on iTunes and at the website www.TheArabStreet.org.
Friday Feb 08, 2019
Friday Feb 08, 2019
02-08-19 The Arab street Radio: Media Bias Report Part 2
Welcome to THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast broadcasting this week from the Watergate in Washington DC through 690 AM WNZK Radio in Detroit Michigan … Friday Feb. 8, 2019
Our guests this morning are authors Usaid Siddiqui and Owais Zaheer who put together a detailed report on the historic bias of the mainstream American news media against Arabs and Palestinians … We continue a discussion about a new report issued by 416 Labs which has analyzed 50 years of news media coverage of the Palestine, Israel conflict and the Arab World. The study confirms what many people already new, that the American mainstream news media is biased and intentionally skewers information to demonize the Arabs and Palestinians while portraying Israel as the victim. The media also minimizes Israel’s actions to whitewash criticism.
The report is titled: “50 Years of Occupation: A Sentiment and N-Gram Analysis of U.S. Mainstream Media Coverage of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.” You can visit their website to review the report by clicking here.
THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com. Our show is available afterward on podcast on iTunes or by visiting the website www.TheArabStreet.org.
The live radio show broadcasts at 8 AM Detroit (EST) Time until (9 AM) (7 AM Chicago Time CST, or 3 PM Occupied Jerusalem Time). You can call 248-557-3300 during the radio show to participate in the discussion.
Listen online at: https://arabradio.us/live/ or https://tunein.com/radio/WNZK-690-s21615/
The radio show is podcast and you can listen to past radio show and podcast audio interviews by visiting the website www.TheArabStreet.org or by looking up “Ray Hanania” or “The Arab Daily News” on iTunes, or click here to view the iTunes podcast archive of The Arab Street Radio Podcast.
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
02-01-19 Arab Radio: the cancer of American News Media bias, and Rashida Tlaib's challenges
#Mediabias #ArabRadio #Podcast 02-01-19 Arab Radio: the cancer of American News Media bias, and Rashida Tlaib's challenges ... Welcome to THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast broadcast from Chicago through 690 AM WNZK Radio in Detroit Michigan … Friday Feb. 1, 2019
This morning we take calls from listeners and discuss a wide range of issues including the racist bias of the mainstream American news media. The news media is the problem. They are the cancer. They are the source of the problems Arabs, Arab Muslims, Arab Christians and people from the Middle East face. We need to confront the news media and destroy their racist systemic nature ...
We also talk about Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib ... it's great to have a Palestinian in Congress but she comes from the extremist end of the Arab community, and she needs to stop playing into the hands of the biased news media in focusing on President Trump. Trump is a problem but he is not THE problem to Arab Americans. Trump may not be the best president but he's not the worst for Arabs and Arab Muslims ... The extremists in the Republican and Democratic party, like Senators Marco "Fidel Castro" Rubio and Chuck Schumer are the REAL PROBLEM, enabled by the racism of the news media ... my prediction is Rashida will LOSE her re-election bid in 13 months (March 10, 2020) when she has to run for the party's nomination and she will lose to an African American challenger ... she is wasting her opportunity by fighting Trump instead of addressig the needs of her congressioal district which is 70 percent African American. She won election ONLY because the African American candidates split their vote.
THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com Our show is available afterwards on podcast on iTunes or by visiting the website www.TheArabStreet.org.
Visit www.TheDailyHookah.com to read all of my columns on the Middle East and on mainstream American politics.
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 25, 2019
01-25-19 Arab Radio Middle East Monitor writer Hanaa Hasan on Syria
Welcome to THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast broadcast from Chicago through 690 AM WNZK Radio in Detroit Michigan and live online … Friday Jan. 18, 2019
Our guest this morning is Hanaa Hasan, a researcher and writer at Middle East Monitor, specializing in the Levant and North Africa.
She’s been covering several countries in the Middle East for news at the Middle East Monitor, with a focus on Syria and economic issues across the Middle East region. She recently completed an Op-Ed on the US withdrawal from Syria. We’ll also talk about the protests in Sudan, the upcoming elections in Israel, Secretary Pompeo's Middle East tour, and the Israeli airstrikes on Damascus.
Syndicated columnist Ray Hanania hosts The Arab street radio show on Fridays on WNZK AM 690 radio in Detroit, Michigan. The show is broadcast from 8 AM until 9 AM EST in Detroit live on the radio.
You can also listen to the show online by using one of these links:
https://tunein.com/radio/WNZK-690-s21615/
Join us at 8 AM IN Detroit, 7 AM in Chicago (online) or in 3 PM in Occupied Jerusalem (online) while we discuss these and other issues during the program.
You can also call in to the studio during the radio show broadcast by dialing 248-557-3300.
For more information on the radio show, visit Ray Hanania’s personal website at http://www.Hanania.com
For podcasts of past shows and audio interviews, visit http://www.TheArabStreet.org THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com Our show is available afterwards on podcast on iTunes or by visiting the website www.TheArabStreet.org
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
01-18-19 The Arab Street Radio Trump Peace Plan
Welcome to THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast broadcast from Chicago through 690 AM WNZK Radio in Detroit Michigan and live online … Friday Jan. 18, 2019
The topic this morning: Do you support or oppose the rumored two-state plan being readied by President @RealDonaldTrump? He is expected to unveil a peace plan to give Palestinians 90 percent of the West Bank to form a State with a sharing of East Jerusalem, although the Old City and the sites holy to Christians, Muslims and Jews would be managed by Israel in cooperation with the Palestine State. The rumored plan would also allow Israel to annex its major settlements, providing land swaps with the Palestinians for the settlement lands lost.
Do you support this plan? If you don't support this plan, what is your alternative?
Syndicated columnist Ray Hanania hosts The Arab street radio show on Fridays on WNZK AM 690 radio in Detroit, Michigan. The show is broadcast from 8 AM until 9 AM EST in Detroit live on the radio.
You can also listen to the show online by using one of these links:
https://tunein.com/radio/WNZK-690-s21615/
Join us at 8 AM IN Detroit, 7 AM in Chicago (online) or in 3 PM in Occupied Jerusalem (online) while we discuss these and other issues during the program.
You can also call in to the studio during the radio show broadcast by dialing 248-557-3300.
For more information on the radio show, visit Ray Hanania’s personal website at http://www.Hanania.com
For podcasts of past shows and audio interviews, visit http://www.TheArabStreet.org THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com Our show is available afterwards on podcast on iTunes or by visiting the website www.TheArabStreet.org
Friday Jan 11, 2019
Friday Jan 11, 2019
01-11-19 The Arab Street Radio: Rahaf, Women's rights, Rashida Tlaib
Welcome to THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast broadcast from Chicago through 690 AM WNZK Radio in Detroit Michigan … Friday Jan. 11, 2019.
Joining me this morning is Ali Younes a writer with Aljazeera English and we're going to talk about the case of Rahaf al-Qunun, the young Saudi girl who claims she fled Saudi Arabia through Kuwait to Thailand to excape her parents and family who seh claims were going to kill her because she abandoned her religion, Islam. She bunkered herself in a hotel in Thailand and has asked for sanctuary in Australia. We'll also talk about the election of Rashida Tlaib as the congresswoman representing the former district of John Conyers. Tlaib is a mix bag championing Palestinian rights in the Congress but at the same time she has some faults.
Follow Ali Younes on Twitter @Ali_Reports and read his news stories and features at Aljazeera English and also at the Intercept online.
THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … go to my website at www.Hanania.com to get information on all my columns at the Arab News in Riyadh Saudi Arabia and at Middle East Monitor on London, England.
Our show is available afterwards on podcast on iTunes or by visiting the website www.TheArabStreet.org.
Friday Dec 14, 2018
Friday Dec 14, 2018
The Arab street Radio: BDS, Israeli violence, Yemen & US media
12-14-18 The Arab street Radio with Ray Hanania and Ali Younes
THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast broadcast from Chicago through 690 AM WNZK Radio in Detroit Michigan … Friday Dec. 14, 2018
Ali Younes, a writer and reporter at Aljazeera English, joins host Ray Hanania, syndicated Op-Ed columnist with the Arab News in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East Monitor in London, to talk about pressing issues including the Israeli-instigated violence in the Occupied West Bank and Occupied East Jerusalem, and the killing many civilians. We discuss how the mainstream American news media empowers Israel to lie about the violence and blame it on the Palestinians while ignoring the violence by the Israeli military and the terrorism of the Israeli settler movement. We also discuss the war in Yemen, and the poor leadership of the Arab World governments and their failure to confront Israeli violence and lies.
In the second half of the show, we discuss the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanction) movement and the assault on it by Israel through its surrogate politicians in the United States. 26 American states have adopted anti-BDS legislation and one state, Illinois is moving to sanction Airbnb for delisting Israeli settlements from its online system of advertising homes and apartments for tourist rental. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner was booted out of office but has directed the state to sanction Airbnb. The question is what will his successor J.B. Pritzker, an ardent pro-Israel advocate, do? Will he repeal the anti-BDS law which is unconstitutional? Pritzker has appointed many Arab Americans to various boards and commissions and can those Arab American appointees effectively lobby Pritzker to repeal the illegal Illinois anti-BDS law (which violates the U.S. Constitution)? Or, will they ignore the issue.
THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com Our show is available afterwards on podcast on iTunes or by visiting the website www.TheArabStreet.org.
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Friday Nov 23, 2018
11-23-18 The Arab Street Radio with Ray Hanania & Ali Younes
Welcome to THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast broadcast from Chicago through 690 AM WNZK Radio in Detroit Michigan … Friday Nov. 23, 2018
Our guest this morning is Ali Younes a reporter and award winning journalist with Aljazeera English. We're talking about the lawsuit filed by the families of three American servicement killed in 2016 in Jordan, about the murder mystery involving Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the double standard in America where Americans can vote for a Nazi in an election but they can't criticize Israel without facing punishment in 27 states so far that have adopted anti-BDS laws, and local politics in Detroit and Minnesota where Rashida Tlaib and Ihlan Omar won seats as the first two Muslim Women in the U.S. Congress.
Click here to read Ali Younes' reporting in Aljazeera.
THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to Hanania's website at www.Hanania.com to read his columns in the Arab News Newspaper and the Middle East Monitor
Our show is available afterwards on podcast on iTunes or by visiting the website www.TheArabStreet.org.
Email Ray Hanania with your comments at rghanania@gmail.com
Follow him on Twitter at @RayHanania
Visit his Facebook Page at Facebook.com/rghanania
The Arab street also podcasts special audio interviews when not hosting radio in Detroit on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Hanania also hosts special editions of the Arab street on Detroit radio on WNZK AM 690 which is produced by ArabRadio.us.
Friday Nov 09, 2018
Friday Nov 09, 2018
11-09-18 Arab American Elections Michigan Illinois the Nation
Welcome to THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast broadcast from Chicago through 690 AM WNZK Radio in Detroit Michigan … Friday Nov. 9, 2018
Our guest this morning is Dennis Denno and we’ll be talking about the election results from Tuesday … overall and also a look at how Arab candidates did across the country …
Dennis Denno founded Denno Research in 2004. He understands what corporations, non-profits, associations, political candidates, and issue-advocates need in a pollster. He knows the power that well-timed, quality polls have on a political or marketing campaign. For over 25 years he has helped candidates and elected officials shape issues and communicate with constituents. DennoResearch.com
THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com Our show is available afterwards on podcast on iTunes or by visiting the website www.TheArabStreet.org.
We discuss the election of Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ihlam Omar of Minnesota to the US Congress, and also other election results and take calls from listeners.
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
The Arab Street Podcast, Israeli writer Larry Derfner
This is Ray Hanania and you are listening to ThArabStreet Podcast where I explore Arab, Israeli and Middle East issues with guests. You can get more information on my podcasts, radio show in Detroit and syndicated columns by visiting www.TheArabStreet.org
My guest for this podcast taped Oct. 18, 2018 is Israeli writer and author Larry Derfner.
Larry Derfner was born and raised in the U.S., started his career in journalism in Los Angeles and continued it in Israel, where he moved in 1985, as columnist and feature writer with the Jerusalem Post, and a correspondent in Israel for U.S. News and World Report, and a contributor to the New York Times, Sunday Times of London, Foreign Policy, Salon, The Nation, Tablet, Forward, 972 and many other publications. He is the author of the 2017 political memoir No Country for Jewish Liberals and is currently working on a memoir about growing up among Holocaust survivors, blacks and Asians in early-1960s Los Angeles. He works as a copy editor at Haaretz in Tel Aviv and lives in the city of Modi'in with his family.
Remember, you listen to all my podcasts by visiting my podcast website at www.TheArabStreet.org as well as visiting any of my writing websites including my personal website www.Hanania.com also TheDailyHookah.com.
Also, check out my other writing websites at:
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Friday Oct 12, 2018
The Arab Street Radio (formerly Yalla! Fight Back radio, The Daily Hookah Radio) is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com or visit the podcast website at www.TheArabStreet.org for all of our podcast audio interviews, radio shows and files …
This edition of The Arab Street radio features an interview October 12, 2018 with Ghassan Khatib, a former member of the Palestinian National Authority who was involved in the Oslo Peace Accords and is today a professor at Birzeit University.
Ghassan Khatib is a lecturer of cultural studies and contemporary Arab studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank.
Ghassan was previously the minister of labor and the minister of planning of the Palestinian Authority, as well as the director of its Government Media Center. Khatib was a member of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference in 1991 and the subsequent bilateral negotiations in Washington from 1991 to 1993. Khatib holds a doctorate in Middle East politics from the University of Durham and is the author of “Palestinian Politics and the Middle East Peace Process: Consensus and Competition in the Palestinian Negotiation Team.”
Read Hanania's columns in English and Arabic online at the Arab News newspaper and online at the ArabNews.com and at www.TheDailyHookah.com. Locally Ray writes for the Southwest News Newspaper group … every week … doing my best to upset as many people as possible …
Go to TheArabStreet.org online and get info on the radio show, listen online, buy my new book Yalla! Fight Back, and standup and FIGHT BACK for Arab, Chaldean and Muslim rights … Follow Ray Hanania on Twitter at RayHanania.
For Ray Hanania’s columns visit http://TheDailyHookah.com
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
09-20-18 Podcast Interview with David Abitbol of Jewlicious.com
Yalla! Fight Back is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com …
This edition of Yalla! Fight Back is an audio Podcast interview conducted on Sep. 20, 2018 with guest David Abitbol, an Arab Israeli Jew from Morocco who is the publisher of the popular Jewish blog called Jewlicious.com. Jewlicious is a grassroots organization changing the way young adults affiliate and participate in Jewish life. We support Jewish communities with training, resources, media, informal Jewish education, and events to foster young adult engagement. We develop and utilize networks, programming and social media, to promote creativity, social entrepreneurship, collaboration, inclusiveness and Jewish peoplehood.
David and I talk about the things that Palestinians and Israelis have in common and touch on some of the controversial things that keep us apart. We discuss the challenges of overcoming opposition to "normalization" and discuss the real differences between moderates and extremists.
Read Hanania's columns in English and Arabic online at the Arab News newspaper and online at the ArabNews.com and at www.TheDailyHookah.com. Locally Ray writes for the Southwest News Newspaper group … every week … doing my best to upset as many people as possible …
Go to YallaFightBack.com and get info on the radio show, listen online, buy my new book Yalla! Fight Back, and standup and FIGHT BACK for Arab, Chaldean and Muslim rights … Follow Ray Hanania on Twitter at RayHanania.
For podcasts visit http://RayHanania.Podbean.com
For Ray Hanania’s columns visit http://www.TheDailyHookah.com
Friday Sep 14, 2018
Friday Sep 14, 2018
09-14-18 Arab Radio Daoud Kuttab & Ray Hanania
Yalla! Fight Back is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com …
This edition of Yalla! Fight Back Arab radio Sep. 14, 2018 discusses the aftermath of the peace process with Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab. Daoud and host Ray Hanania discuss the collapse of peace, the causes of the collapse and the choices facing Palestinians and the Arab World in dealing with Israel's extremist government and the actions of the administration of President Donald Trump. Daoud Kuttab's Website is www.DaoudKuttab.com. Follow him on Twitter at @DouadKuttab
The radio show call-in number is 248-557-3300
You can read Hanania's columns in English and Arabic online at the Arab News newspaper and online at the ArabNews.com and at www.TheDailyHookah.com. Locally I also write for the Southwest News Newspaper group … every week … doing my best to upset as many people as possible …
Go to YallaFightBack.com and get info on the radio show, listen online, buy my new book Yalla! Fight Back, and standup and FIGHT BACK for Arab, Chaldean and Muslim rights … Follow Ray Hanania on Twitter at @RayHanania.
For podcasts visit http://RayHanania.Podbean.com
For Ray Hanania’s columns visit http://www.TheDailyHookah.com
Friday Aug 24, 2018
Friday Aug 24, 2018
08-24-18 Arab Radio The Arabs of South & Latin America
Yalla! Fight Back is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com …
This edition of Yalla! Fight Back Arab radio Aug. 14, 2018 discusses the Arabs of South America and Latin America. There are only 4.5 million Arabs in the United States but there are 32 million Arabs in South America. South America has been more welcoming and supportive of Arab immigrants and Arabs in South America have risen to great business and political heights in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia. The Arab World ignores the Arabs of America but can they afford to ignore the Arabs of Latin America? I believe we need to do more to explore Arab history in South American countries, and in Central America and even in the Carribean where Arab immigrants have flourished and have great influence.
The radio show call-in number is 248-557-3300
You can read Hanania's columns in English and Arabic online at the Arab News newspaper and online at the ArabNews.com and at www.TheDailyHookah.com. Locally I also write for the Southwest News Newspaper group … every week … doing my best to upset as many people as possible …
Go to YallaFightBack.com and get info on the radio show, listen online, buy my new book Yalla! Fight Back, and stand up and FIGHT BACK for Arab, Chaldean and Muslim rights …
For podcasts visit http://RayHanania.Podbean.com
For Ray Hanania’s columns visit http://www.TheDailyHookah.com
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
08-17-18 Arab Radio on Politics: Did Tlaib abandon the Two-State Solution?
Yalla! Fight Back is a part of the US Arab Radio Network hosted by Laila Alhusini … in an effort to energize and empower Arab Americans to stand up for their rights … for more information go to my website at www.Hanania.com …
This edition of Yalla! Fight Back Arab radio Aug. 17, 2018 discusses Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic candidate in the 13th Congressional District seat vacated by longtime Congressman John Conyers in the wake of sexual harassment allegations, and Tlaib's wavering views on Israel and Palestine. Has she really changed her views and opposes the Two-State Solution? Did she surrender to extremist bullies? We discuss that issue and also the oppression of the Israeli government and their interrogation of prominent Jewish columnist Peter Beinart. When Beinart was harassed by Israel's secret police, the Shin Bet, it became major news. But when Arabs, Christians and Muslims are harassed daily, it is rarely reported by the biased and racist mainstream American News Media.
The radio show call-in number is 248-557-3300
You can read Hanania's columns in English and Arabic online at the Arab News newspaper and online at the ArabNews.com and at www.TheDailyHookah.com. Locally I also write for the Southwest News Newspaper group … every week … doing my best to upset as many people as possible …
Go to YallaFightBack.com and get info on the radio show, listen online, buy my new book Yalla! Fight Back, and stand up and FIGHT BACK for Arab, Chaldean and Muslim rights …
For podcasts visit http://RayHanania.Podbean.com
For Ray Hanania’s columns visit http://www.TheDailyHookah.com