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US Rep. Marie Newman on Israel-Palestine peace; ADC Convention preview with Jinan Shbat

US Rep. Marie Newman on Israel-Palestine peace; ADC Convention preview with Jinan Shbat

The Ray Hanania Radio Show June 15, 2022, Season 2, Episode 11

Hosted by the US Arab Radio Network and sponsored by Arab News

In Segment 1: Illinois Congresswoman Marie Newman who is seeking re-election in the newly drawn 6th Congressional District ... Axios calls her the 3rd most active freshman member of congress ...

Segment 2: Segment 2:  Jinan Shbat, national organizer for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee talking about their upcoming national convention and the continued challenges of racism and discrimination against Arab Americans

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The Killing iof Shireen Abu Akleh; plight of Syrian Refugees

The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh; plight of Syrian Refugees

June 8, 2022, Season 2 Episode 10

Segment 1: Tony Abu Akleh, brother of slain Palestinian American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh (Aqleh) ...June 11 will mark one month since Shireen was killed while covering a rally for Palestinians ... and nothing has been resolved yet.

The Israelis immediately denied killing her but scores of witnesses said that the spot where Shireen was standing wearing a vest with the word PRESS emblazoned in large letters was the focus on Israeli military sniper fire. Israeli Snipers don't just shoot indiscriminately. They shoot for the head and to kill.

Ned Price, the State Department spokesman said Israel had the wherewithal and the capabilities to conduct a thorough investigation ... after denouncing the killing of an American and a journalist.

But this week on June 6, Senator Mitt Romney a Republican from Utah and Jon Ossoff a Democrat from Georgia in a bipartisan letter demanded a "full and transparent investigation."

That prompted Secretary of State Anthony Blinken yesterday June 8 to say he wanted an independent investigation also.

Segment 2: Dr. Mufaddal Hamadeh, former president of SAMS, talking about Syrian refugees and the refugee crisis across the globe ... Syrian American Medical Society

Mufaddal Hamadeh, MD

Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), Board Member

Dr. Mufaddal Hamadeh is a practicing physician, board-certified in Medical Oncology and Hematology, by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He completed his fellowship in Hematology & Oncology at the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center Affiliate, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.

He attended Damascus University Medical School. He is currently a physician with the Alpha Med physicians group, and an associate clinical professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Since 2014, Dr. Hamadeh has acted as the SAMS Midwest Chapter president. He is also a SAMS foundation board member, a member of SAMS advocacy committee and the SAMS Lebanon committee member.

 

Michigan Politics; Congressman Sean Casten on Middle East and election issues

The Ray Hanania Radio Show

Season 2 Episode 9, June 1, 2022

Broadcast on the US Arab Radio Network, sponsored by Arab News

Today we are going to focus on two issues, first with Michigan Political Consultants Dennis Denno and Bill Ballenger in segment 1 looking at the August 2 Primary election contests in several Michigan congressional races including Huwaida Arraf in the 10th, Andy Levin in the 11th, Rashida Tlaib in the12th and John Conyers III in the 13th new districts  ... in segment 2 we'll speak with Congressman Sean Casten who is running in the 6th Illinois House District for re-election in the June 28, Democratic Primary against Congresswoman Marie Newman

Dennis Denno is President of Denno Research which he founded in 2004. For over 30 years he has helped candidates and elected officials shape issues and conducts polling on important races & issues. Bill Ballenger is founder of Inside Michigan Politics, a state-based biweekly subscription newsletter launched in 1987 & published for 27 years. He now publishes The Ballenger Report.

In Segment 2, Sean Casten elected Congressman of the former 6th District representing the West Suburbs of Chicagoland and now running in the newly drawn 6th District which includes much of Chicago's Southwest suburbs and a small part of the city.

Casten is a scientist, clean energy entrepreneur and CEO, and has dedicated his life to fighting climate change. Casten serves on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and is Vice Chair of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets. Congressman Casten has a Master of Engineering Management and a Master of Science in Biochemical Engineering.

The District has one of the largest concentrations of Palestinian Americans ... Casten has criticized both Hamas and also the Israeli settlers as contributing towards the violence and has urged both sides to engage in peace talks

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Survivors of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty recount that fatal day June 8 1967

Survivors of Israel's attack on the USS Liberty recount that fatal day June 8 1967

MAY 25 RADIO SHOW: The Ray Hanania Radio Show
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Remembering the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty June 8, 1967

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It's Wednesday May 25, 2022 and I am your host, Ray Hanania ... April is an important month

We're broadcasting live in Detroit, Washington DC, and rebroadcasting Thursday in Detroit at 7 AM and in Chicago at 12 noon on WNWI AM 1080 radio ...

Today we are going to focus on an event that took the lives of 34 American soldiers and injured 173 others ... the Israeli attack with jets and torpedo boats against the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967 ... the veterans did not get any help from the US Government during the vicious attack ... The US Military has continued to minimize the attack as an accident but the survivors who were on the Liberty dispute the findings and believe a full and comprehensive investigation has never been done ... what really happened 55 years ago this June 8?

We invited six survivors who served on the USS Liberty that horrific day ... to join us to help us understand what happened

Don Pageler

Communications Technician, wounded in the Israeli attack while helping other wounded shipmates. Pageler was awarded the Presidential UNIT Citation, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Cnduct Medals and National Defense Medal.

Mickey LeMay

Mickey LeMay a survivor of the USS LIBERTY serving as a 2ND Class electrician in charge of the electrical department on the USS Liberty.

Ron Kukal

A First Class Communications Technician, and section supervisor who was ordered to be in charge of the body recovery of his shipmates. He suffered tremendous trauma during the attack.

Phil Tourney

Tourney received the Bronze Star for heroism for rescuing fellow servicemembers and praises Tourney BUT does not mention the state that directed the attack, Israel ... The Government has done everything to coverup Israel's role and minimize what Israels did.

Larry Bowen
A Naval Officer and later defense contractor now retired, Bowen serves as the president of the USS Liberty Veterans Org. at USSLibertyVeterans.org. He received a Purple Heart for injuries received during the attack, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal for sustained superior performance over my 21 years of military service.

Joe Meadors

Shipmate on the Liberty. Joe is helping with the others to organize a 55th Commemoration that will be held in Arlington Virginia June 6 - 9, 2022, this year

 

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The meaning of Lebanon’s elections with ATFL VP Jean AbiNader May 18, 2022 S2 E7

The meaning of Lebanon's elections with ATFL VP Jean AbiNader

May 18, 2022  S2 E7

Today we are going to look at the recent elections in Lebanon ... It has been a tumultuous two years for Lebanon ... the explosion of August 4, 2020 which took 218 lives, injured 7,000 people and left 300,000 homeless. Then there was the economic crisis that followed, and the uncertain and continued political turmoil ... all this has pushed Lebanon into gridlock, a nation that continues to be governed by a sectarian or Confessional division of political office.

The head of state is the president, who is elected by a two-thirds majority of the National Assembly for a term of six years and is eligible to serve consecutive terms. By an unwritten convention, the president must be a Maronite Christian, the premier a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of the National Assembly a Shi'iMuslim. The president, in consultation with the speaker of the National Assembly and the parliamentary deputies, invites a Sunni Muslim to form a cabinet, and the cabinet members’ portfolios are organized to reflect the sectarian balance. The cabinet, which holds more executive power than the president, requires a vote of confidence from the Assembly in order to remain in power. 

With us to help us understand all of this is Jean AbiNader, the Vice President for Policy at the American Task Force on Lebanon. He has decades of experience in public affairs/advocacy, international marketing, education and training, and project management in the Arab world. He regularly contributes analysis in a weekly blog hosted by ATFL on current events in Lebanon and the region.

AbiNader can help us understand the election results this past week and the impact of the elections in the context of the explosion, the economic and political turmoil, and the complex confessional government division.

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AbiNader has been working internationally since he finished his post-graduate education in intercultural affairs and eventually had assignments in 40 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa at the intersection of international marketing, organizational change, cross-cultural communications, and workforce development.

As Vice President of the American Task Force on Lebanon, he oversees the communications team, producing blogs, position papers, press statements, information materials, and policy studies related to US-Lebanon political, economic, and security issues.

He consults on strategic communications and organizational change for both international and US clients; has led a graduate level seminar at Georgetown University; lectures at American University on international development and challenges in intercultural negotiations; and a leads a seminar on effective negotiations at Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco. His blogs can be found on  www.atfl.org and his website: www.abinaderadvisoryservices.com

 

05-11-22 Guests Mohamed Khairullah, UNRWA Acting Director Bill Deere

05-11-22 Guests Mohamed Khairullah, UNRWA Acting Director Bill Deere

The Ray Hanania Radio Show May 11, 2022

Hosted by the US Arab Radio Network and sponsored by Arab News

Segment 1: Mohamed T. Khairullah is the Mayor of the Borough of Prospect Park, New Jersey. A Syrian American immigrant, Mayor Khairullah was first elected to the City Council in 2001 and then elected mayor in 2005.

Fleeing his homeland of Syria in 1980, Mayor Khairullah sought to shape a new meaning of hope through civic engagement and grassroots activism. As a former volunteer firefighter and through his relief efforts inside war-torn Syria, Mayor Khairullah demonstrated courage by running towards danger that most people run away from. He was elected to the Prospect Heights Borough in 2001 as a council member and in 2005 was elected its mayor.

Segment 2: Bill Deere is the Acting Director of the UNRWA Representative Office of Washington D.C. Deere was Senior Congressional Advisor to the Washington, D.C. office of UNRWA, 

UNRWA was founded in 1949. Trump cut off funding when he was president but Biden restored that funding but UNRWA remains in financial distress ...

The Ray Hanania Radio Show is broadcast live at 5 PM EST in Detroit on WNZK AM 690 and Washington DC on WDMV AM 700 radio. You can listen live on the US Arab Radio Network at ArabRadio.us and also live at Arab News Facebook page at Facebook.com/ArabNews, where it is streamed permanently. 

The radio show is rebroadcast on Thursdays at 7 AM EST in Detroit on WNZK AM 690; and, Thursday in Chicago at 12 noon CST on WNWI AM 1080 radio

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O5-04-22 Raymond Lopez on anti-Arab racism in Chicago; And, update on Iran

The Ray Hanania Show for May 4, 2022, S2E5

topics include two segments; the first on discrimination in Chicago against Arabs and Muslims; and the second on the Iranian resistance urging tougher sanctions on Iran

In Segment 1, we're going to speak with Raymond Lopez, alderman of Chicago's 15th Ward ... Alderman Lopez was one of the first to speak out against Mayor Lori Lightfoot's targeting of Arab Stores for closure last summer ... Mayor Lightfoot closed 150 mostly Arab owned businesses but re-opened them thanks to the help of Ald. Lopez who joined the Arab business owners at a press conference in Sept. demanding she explain her actions.... rather than explain Mayor Lightfoot immediately reopened the businesses and has tried to avoid the subject since ...

Alderman Lopez is also an announced candidate for the February 2023 Chicago Mayor elections .... and I think he is going to do very well ...

In Segment 2, we'll look at Iran's continued efforts to build a nuclear weapon and how they are using the JCPOA negotiations in Vienna to give them more time to advance their nuclear weapons industry and get closer to the bomb with our guest Shahin Gobadi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and spokesperson for the NCRI-Iran.org

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04-27-22 Ray Hanania: State Dept Affinity Group leaders; Jonathan Gornall on Coptic Christians

Ray Hanania: State Dept Affinity Group leaders; Jonathan Gornall on Coptic Christians

S2 E 4, 04-27-22

It's Wednesday April 27, 2022 and I am your host, Ray Hanania ... April is an important month ... it's the end of Arab American Heritage month ... we just finished celebrating traditional Easter two weeks ago and Orthodox Easter this past Sunday ... and Passover ended and we are approaching the end of Ramadan ... Eid Mubarak to our Muslim Friends who are fasting and commemorating this important religious holiday in Islam

We're broadcasting live in Detroit, Washington DC, Canada and tomorrow, Thursday we rebroadcast in Chicago at 12 noon on WNWI AM 1080 radio ....

Our topics today include two segments ...

In Segment 1, we're going to focus on where the President gets his information on Arab Americans with the chair and deputy chair of a very important organization called the Arab American Affinity Group, with Arab Affinity Group President Nadia Farra and and communications director Mahmoud Al Hamalawy 

Nadia Farra serves as a Special Assistant to Deputy Secretary Sherman covering the Middle East and North Africa, Counterterrorism, and Cyber issues.  Before, she served as the Senior Syria Desk Officer in the Bureau for Near Eastern Affairs for over six years.  Nadia entered the civil service in 2011 as a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) at USAID where she staffed former Administrator Raj Shah before serving on the Yemen Desk. 

Mahmoud El-Hamalawy is a Press Officer in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs covering North Africa.  Previously, he served as an Outreach Officer under GPA’s National Media Outreach unit advising and staffing press engagements, interviews, and Opinion Editorials (Op-Eds) for the Secretary of State and Senior Department officials.  Prior to joining the Department, Mr. El-Hamalawy was a Senior News Producer for covering breaking news and stories out of Washington and their global impact. 

The Arab-Americans in Foreign Affairs Agencies Employee Affinity Group is the Department’s only employee-based organization concerned with the promotion, protection, and utilization of the cultural, linguistic, personal, and professional assets Arab-American foreign affairs professionals commonly share. 

As with other ethnic- and minority-based employee associations, AAIFAA serves as a resource of relevant ideas and experiences that can be shared among the Arab-American communities throughout the interagency community. AAIFAA membership is open to all Civil and Foreign Service employees in the Department and throughout the interagency community.  AAIFAA membership is not based on any ethnicity or religion, but rather on a shared affinity for Arab culture. 

For more information, please contact AAIFAA@state.gov.

In Segment 2, we'll look at challenges facing the Coptic Christians of Egypt with author Abdulatif El-Menawy and discuss his Deep Dive this week on Coptic Christians with Arab News journalist Jonathan Gornall

Jonathan Gornall works with the Arab news Research Unit ... he is a British journalist, formerly with The Times, who has lived and worked in the Middle East and is now based in the UK. He specializes in health, a subject on which he writes for the British Medical Journal and others. He did a great Deep Dive into the Coptic Christians of Egypt

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04-20-22 Nir Hasson on Al Aqsa Mosque; Il Rep. Cyril Nichols on Arabs as ”Minority”

Welcome to The Ray Hanania Show it's Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Season 2, Episode 3

In Segment 1, we're going to focus on two topics this afternoon, the violence taking place at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem, with Haaretz writer Nir Hasson

Hasson covers Jerusalem for Haaretz. He is writing a PHD dissertation at the Hebrew University on the Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. He's also a researched at the Truman Institute of the Hebrew University. 

In Segment 2, we'll speak with Illinois Representative Cyril Nichols of the 32nd District and look his proposed law to recognize Arab Americans as a "minority community" in order to qualify for contracts from state and local governments in Illinois.

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Good afternoon everyone and Ramadan Mubarak to the Muslim community here in America and across the Arab World. Happy Easter to Christians. And Happy Passover to the Jewish community.

 

04-13-22 The Different Easters, challenges facing Arab Christians, Traditional Easter Recipes

04-13-22 The Different Easters, challenges facing Arab Christians, Traditional Easter Recipes

Season 2, Episode 2

The Ray Hanania Radio Show: The different Easters; challenges facing Christian Arabs; & traditional Arab recipes for Easter April 13, 2022 Radio show: Broadcast live every Wednesday at 5 PM Eastern EST on four radio stations:

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And watch the radio show at Facebook.com/ArabNews Easter is a good time to talk about the challenges facing Christian Arabs in many societies and in politics ... Christian Arabs are seen as ghosts who don't belong, rejected both by mainstream Christians and non-Christians because they are Arab.

Our Guests:

Segment 1: Katherine Kelaidis, resident scholar National Hellenic Museum Chicago, expert on Orthodox Christians (The different Easters) For more info visit https://www.nationalhellenicmuseum.org/

Segment 2: Rev. Khader El-Yateem director Evangelical Mission and Assistant to the Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and Arab Christian National Organization. From Bethlehem, Palestine (Challenges facing Christian Arabs)

Pastor Khader El-Yateem was born in Beit Jala in the Bethlehem Governorate in 1968, and emigrated to the United States in 1992. He holds a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and a bachelor's degree from the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Egypt. He is the founder of Salam Arabic Lutheran Church. He ran for NY City Council in 2017.

Visit https://elca.org for more information.

Segment 3: Veteran Chef Tariq Nasir on popular Christian Arab recipes enjoyed during Easter. Visit his website at:

https://www.cheftariq.com/about/

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