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Ray Hanania is a media analyst and political consultant specializing in Middle East issues and events, and mainstream American politics. He is president of Urban Strategies Group Hanania writes several columns and provides commentary for broadcast media, including for: Columnist: JERUSALEM POST
Columnist: Ray Hanania Columns Columnist: CREATORS SYNDICATE Columnist: SOUTHWEST NEWS-HERALD Hanania also writes for the LAWNDALE NEWS newspaper. He was the political columnist at the Daily Southtown for seven years (1977-1985), the Chicago Sun-Times (1985-1992) and at the Southwest News-Herald (2002 - Present).
Hanania co-hosts the American Arab radio show "Radio Baladi" which is simulcast in three states on Friday mornings (7-8 am Central, 8-9 am Eastern) including in Michigan, Ohio and Northern Illinois. Hanania Hosts Radio Chicagoland on WSBC AM 1240 Radio every Sunday in Chicago from 8 am until 11 am. Previously, he hosted live Chicago morning shows on WLS AM 890 Radio and recently on WJJG AM 1530 radio. For more information visit "The Ray Hanania Show". Hanania is a blogger for the alJazeera Listening Post segment offering commentary on specific topics in the news LINKS Subscribe to Ray Hanania's Newsletter. Click HERE Archive for The Jerusalem Post Newspaper columns. Archive for YnetNews Columns. Click Here Archive of Radio Chicagoland podcasts. Click here |
RAY HANANIA Ray Hanania offers a unique perspective on the news, and special insights that are sometimes humorous & always insightful on the challenges of bringing peace and an end to violence in the Middle East COLUMN WRITING & JOURNALISM AWARDS
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KEYNOTE SPEECH TO THE CHICAGO MEDIA WORKSHOP ON THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION View profile in Get info on the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour
and help confront the hatred and animosity between Jews and Arabs. Get info on Hanania's past NAMED "Best of the Best" Presenters/Speakers by LACONI (Library Administrators Conference of Northern Illinois, 2007) Wins the 2009 Sigma Delta Chi Award for General Column Writing Sept. 2010 Named "Best Ethnic Columnist in America" by the New America Media (Nov. 2006). |
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JOURNALISM, OPINION ANALYSIS A former talk show on WLS AM Radio for more than a decade from 1980 until 1992 (and previously on WBBM FM and WLUP FM radio), Hanania covered Chicago City Hall from "Daley to Daley" (1976-1992) writing for the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He hosted Radio Chicagoland in Chicago on WJJG 1530 AM Radio Monday through Friday from 8 until 9:30 am for three years ending in 2011. Hanania currently is the co-host of the American Arab/Muslim Radio show "Radio Baladi" which is broadcast in Chicago and Dearborn, and in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio every Friday morning from 7 to 8 am (Central, 8-9 am Eastern). As a parttime, freelance media and political analyst, Hanania also provides media support for web pages and internal communications projects as well as providing media consulting to governments and businesses. Hanania's columns on the Middle East have been published by YnetNews.com, the English language website of Israel's largest Hebrew Newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth, the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, the Saudi Arabia Arab News, al-Quds Newspaper, as Sharq al-Awsat, the Arlington Heights Daily Herald, NEWSWEEK, the New York Daily News, Newsday and the Orlando Sentinal. Hanania also provides video-blog commentaries for "The Listening Post" on Al-Jazeera English. ARAB AMERICAN HISTORY He is an activist for peace between Palestinians and Israelis speaking out against terrorism, violence, extremism, and religious fanaticism. He strongly supports and advocates for peace based on non-violence and compromise between Israel and Palestine. STANDUP COMEDY "After Sept. 11, many Arab Americans like myself were targeted. Many were intimidated into denying or abandoning their Arab heritage. We lost employment, job opportunities and watched as our ethnic press was decimated. We had seven Arab American ethnic newspapers in Chicago before Sept. 11. After, all but one closed. Five years later, we have two. This is a pattern we've seen across the United States, not just in Arab American journalism but in business, industry and on the social level, too. I think that says everything about the challenges Arabs face in this country today. Using communications, we can change that and at the same time, make America the country it was intended to be." AWARDS
Hanania is a co-founder of the National Arab American Journalists Association, is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, the Society of Professional Journalists previously serving on their Diversity Board, the Asian American Journalists Association serving on their Media Watch Committee, and the Radius of Arab Writers Inc. (RAWI). He is the author of eight books including the humor books "I'm Glad I Look Like a Terrorist: Growing Up Arab in America" and "Talking to Israelis."
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"Ray Hanania, a former Creators columnist who's now self-syndicated, is a Palestinian-American writer married to a Jewish woman. He writes about Mideast issues in an evenhanded way that makes him seem positively radical in a sea of columnists who back Israel almost unconditionally.
Hanania's approach, as former President Jimmy Carter discovered with his latest book, is not popular with much of the mainstream media. But it would be interesting if U.S. dailies followed the lead of Israeli newspapers in allowing a much wider spectrum of debate about Mideast issues. By the way, Hanania is also a stand-up comedian who's hilarious when he opts to use humor.
, Odette Keeley, Jun 13, 2008