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Ray Hanania, Arab News US Special Correspondent, hosts ”The Ray Hanania Radio Show” live on the US Arab Radio Network sponsored by Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English language daily, on WNZK AM 690 Radio in Detroit and WDMV AM 700 in Washington DC every Wednesday afternoon at 5 PM EST. The show is also broadcast live on www.facebook.com/ArabNews. Guests include newsmakers from the White House, State Department, and Congress to Arab American thought leaders addressing breaking news stories. For more information visit Arab News at www.ArabNews.com and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ArabNews. For show bookings email: Ray.Hanania@arabnews.com
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Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
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
Broadcast live at:
WNZK AM 690 Radio in Greater Detroit including parts of Ohio
WDMV AM 700 in Washington DC including parts of Virginia and Maryland
WTOR AM 770 Radio in Upper New York and Ontario, Canada
And, we rebroadcast on Thursdays in Chicago at 12 noon on WNWI AM 1080.
You can also listen to our radio show live online at ArabRadio.US
And watch the radio show at Arab News Facebook page at:
The Ray Hanania Show is brought to you by the US Arab Radio Network and sponsored by Arab News at ArabNews.com
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Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
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.
The Ray Hanania Show is broadcast live on the US Arab Radio Network and sponsored by Arab News every Wednesday at 5 PM Eastern EST on radio at:
WNZK AM 690 Radio in Greater Detroit including parts of Ohio
WDMV AM 700 in Washington DC including parts of Virginia and Maryland
WTOR AM 770 Radio in Upper New York and Ontario, Canada
And, we rebroadcast on Thursdays in Chicago at 12 noon on WNWI AM 1080.
You can also listen to our radio show live online at ArabRadio.US
And watch the radio show at Facebook.com/ArabNews
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.
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
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:
WNZK AM 690 Radio in Greater Detroit including parts of Ohio
WDMV AM 700 in Washington DC including parts of Virginia and Maryland
WTOR AM 770 Radio in Upper New York and Ontario, Canada
And,rebroadcast in Chicago on Thursdays at 12 noon on WNWI AM 1080.
You can also listen to our radio show live online at ArabRadio.US
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/
Watch the broadcast live at:
https://fb.watch/cn0IW57wlm/
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
04-06-22 Jamal Osman, Minneapolis City Council on law allowing Adhan in the city
Season 2, Episode 1
Segment 1 - Jamal Osman, a member of the Minneapolis City Council representing the 6th Ward introduced and sponsored a new law that he will discuss that allows the Adhan to be prayed and broadcast throughout the city between the hours of 7 AM to 10 PM.
Segment 2 - Rawan Radwan, Arab News’s Deputy Section Editor and Regional Correspondent in the Gulf who discusses Ramadan and the celebrations taking place in Saudi Arabia, and the Muslim World.
Click here to read the story:
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2058551/offbeat
The podcast is of the Live radio show "The Ray Hanania Show" which is broadcast as follows:
WNZK AM 690 in Detroit Michigan and Ohio, 5 PM EST Wednesday
WDMV AM 700 in Washington DC Maryland and Virginia, 5 PM EST Wednesday
WTOR AM 770 radio in New York & Ontario, Canada, 5 PM EST Wednesday
Rebroadcast on WNWI AM 1080 in Chicagoland and NW Indiana, 12 noon CST Thursday
Hosted by the US Arab Radio Network, ArabRadio.us
Sponsored by ArabNews.com
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Bayan Galal on her win as First Arab President of Yale's Student Government
And interview with Saad Malley, Chicago business owners, on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's racist assault to close Arab and Muslim businesses
Season 1, Episode 24
The Ray Hanania Radio Show sponsored by Arab News
Wednesday Sept. 15, 2021 at 8 AM EST
We have a great lineup of invited guests and topics this morning …
The Ray Hanania Radio Show this morning at 8AM EST (3PM Riyadh, 4PM Dubai, 7 AM Chicago):
Segment 1, we interview rising junior at Yale University Bayan Galal who was recently elected as Yale’s first Arab student body president in the college’s 320-year history. She is also the first Arab student body president in the entire Ivy League.
This is a pivotal moment for the Ivy League and I am happy to discuss what this means for the Yale community and Arabs across the United States.
In Segment 2 we look at the controversy in Chicago where Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has ordered a Special Task Force of Police and Inspectors to shut down Arab and Muslim owned grocery stores, this after Lightfoot told the public she opposes racism and discrimination … the Task Force has shut down some 50 stores citing minor code violations … rather than allowing them to remain open while they fix the alleged issues … some inspectors also said that the real reason in that Mayor Lightfoot believes that the 24 Hour gas stations and stores attract street gang members and as we know Chicago has one of the worst street gang problems in America … we’ll be joined by American Arab Chamber of Commerce President Hassan Nijem and businessman Saad Malley, and Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez
Join us live right here at Arab News ...
“The Ray Hanania Show which is brought to you by Arab News at ArabNews.com on the US Arab Radio Network …
we’re broadcasting live on WNZK AM 690 in Greater Detroit and WDMV AM 700 in Greater Washington DC … and streamed live on Facebook.com/ArabNews and on the US Arab Radio Network at ArabRadio.US
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
09-09-21 Boston Candidate Annissa George and ADC Legal Dir Abed Ayoub
Season 1, Episode 23
The Ray Hanania Radio Show sponsored by Arab News
Wednesday Sept. 8, 2021 at 8 AM EST
We have a great lineup of invited guests and topics this morning …
The Ray Hanania Radio Show this morning at 8 AM EST (3 PM Riyadh, 4 PM Dubai):
Segment 1, we interview with Annissa Essaibi George, an Arab American running in the race for Mayor of Boston in the September 14 preliminary election race next week … Ms. George is an American politician who serves as an at-large member of the Boston City Council, where she is the chair of both the Committee on Education and Homelessness, Mental Health, and Recovery … polls show George running in a virtual tie for first place in tight race with another candidate of the Seven candidates running … but in this election the top two finishers go on to the General election November 2… what makes the difference and does being Arab have any impact?
In Segment 2 we look at the backlash killings of Arabs and Americans who looked Middle Eastern in the weeks and months following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks … joining me is Abed Ayoub, the legal director at the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). The nation is preparing to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 and yet the country has failed to accept the reality that many more than the 2,996 Americans killed on Sept. 11 died because of the terrorist attacks … at least two dozen more Americans were killed in the weeks and months after Sept. 11 because they were Arab or middle eastern looking and yet their tragedies will be overlooked or cast aside again this year …
This Morning #ArabRadioUS @RayHanania explores …. 8AM EST #Detroit WNZK AM 690 & #WashingtonDC WDMV AM 700 also live streamed right here 3PM Riyadh 4PM UAE at Facebook.com/ArabNews
Join me this morning on Arab American Radio as we interview
At 8 AM EST on WNZK AM 690 Detroit and WDMV AM 700 Washington DC, on the US Arab Radio Network and live at https://Facebook.com/ArabNews
Join us live right here at Arab News ...
“The Ray Hanania Show which is brought to you by Arab News at ArabNews.com on the US Arab Radio Network.
We’re broadcasting live on WNZK AM 690 in Greater Detroit and WDMV AM 700 in Greater Washington DC … and streamed live on Facebook.com/ArabNews and on the US Arab Radio Network at ArabRadio.US
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Interview with Rep. McCollum, Dalia AlAqidi on Afghanistan and Taliban 09-01-21
The Ray Hanania Radio Show sponsored by Arab News
Wednesday Sept. 1, 2021 at 8 AM EST
We have a great lineup of invited guests and topics this morning …
The Ray Hanania Radio Show this morning at 8 AM EST (3 PM Riyadh, 4 PM Dubai):
Segment 1, Minnesota Congresswoman Betty McCollum, Chair woman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and a leading champion of human rights who has spoken out and introduced legislation to defend civilians around the world including in Palestine, will join us in a pre-taped interview that I will play this morning. In April, Congresswoman McCollum called for the protection of Palestinian children and families living under Israel’s military control. Last year she introduced a bill that would prevent America from recognizing the West Bank as a part of Israel if Israel annexed the militarily occupied territories. McCollum comes from the American heartland and is a strong critic of Israeli human rights abuses against Palestinians
In Segment 2 we discuss the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban and the Biden administrative with conservative @ArabNews columnist Dalia al-Aqidi
Join us live right here at Arab News ...at “The Ray Hanania Show which is brought to you by Arab News at ArabNews.com on the US Arab Radio Network …
we’re broadcasting live on WNZK AM 690 in Greater Detroit and WDMV AM 700 in Greater Washington DC … and streamed live on Facebook.com/ArabNews and on the US Arab Radio Network at ArabRadio.US
Visit www.ArabNews.com for podcast links
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
08-25-21 Afghanistan: with CPJ Steven Butler & Arab News Zahid Hussain
The Ray Hanania Radio Show sponsored by Arab News
Wednesday August 25, 2021 at 8 AM EST
We have a great lineup of invited guests and topics this morning
The Ray Hanania Radio Show this morning at 8 AM EST (3 PM Riyadh, 4 PM Dubai):
Segment 1, we speak with Committee to Protect Journalists Asia Program Coordinator, Steven Butler. Steven Butler has worked as a journalist throughout Asia, writing for the Financial Times and The Christian Science Monitor from South Korea in the mid-1980s, before joining the staff of the Financial Times and reporting in Southeast Asia, London and Tokyo, including regular reporting visits to China.
In Segment 2 we discuss the situation more broadly in Afghanistan with Arab News columnist Zahid Hussain who recently wrote a detailed and lengthy spotlight on what is happening to the people there … Zahid Hussain is an award-winning columnist and author. He is a former scholar at Woodrow Wilson Centre and a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and at the Stimson Center in DC. He is author of Frontline Pakistan: The struggle with Militant Islam and The Scorpion’s tail: The relentless rise of Islamic militants in Pakistan. Frontline Pakistan was the book of the year (2007) by the WSJ. His latest book ‘No-Win War’ was published this year.
This Morning #ArabRadioUS @RayHanania explores #journalists in #Afghanistan w/ #CommitteetoProtectJournalists #CPJ @pressfreedom @StevenBButler & events there w/ @ArabNews reporter #ZahidHussain 8AM EST #Detroit WNZK AM 690 & #WashingtonDC WDMV AM 700 also live streamed right here 3PM Riyadh 4PM UAE at Facebook.com/ArabNews
“The Ray Hanania Show which is brought to you by Arab News at ArabNews.com on the US Arab Radio Network …
we’re broadcasting live on WNZK AM 690 in Greater Detroit and WDMV AM 700 in Greater Washington DC … and streamed live on Facebook.com/ArabNews and on the US Arab Radio Network at ArabRadio.US
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Arab Radio: More tragedy in Lebanon; Afghanistan’s first woman pilot looks at Taliban takeover
Season 1, Episode 20
The Ray Hanania Radio Show sponsored by Arab News Newspaper looks at two issues this week, on Wednesday August 18, 2021 at 8 AM EST.
In Segment 1, we speak with Nadim Shehadi, (Executive Director of the LAU New York Headquarters and Academic Center) is an Associate Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House in London. He was previously the director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He was also a senior member of St. Antony’s College Oxford where he directed the Centre for Lebanese Studies from 1986 to 2005.
In Segment 2 we discuss the spiraling challenges in Afghanistan with Afghanistan’s first female pilot Niloofar Rahmani who is also the co-author of the book “Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan’s First Female Pilot” with co-writer Adam Sikes. And we are joined by Arab News correspondent Baker Atyani who is covering Afghanistan as the Taliban take control
“The Ray Hanania Show which is brought to you by Arab News at ArabNews.com on the US Arab Radio Network and is broadcast live on WNZK AM 690 in Greater Detroit and WDMV AM 700 in Greater Washington DC at 8 AM EST. The live Zoom video of the radio show is streamed live on Facebook.com/ArabNews and on the US Arab Radio Network at ArabRadio.US
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Amb Feierstein looks at Yemen: Arab News Sports Editor looks at Arabs at Tokyo Olympics
Season 1, Episode 19
The Ray Hanania Radio Show sponsored by Arab News on the US Arab Radio Network
Wednesday August 11, 2021 at 8 AM EST
We have a great lineup of invited guests and topics this morning …
The Ray Hanania Radio Show this morning at 8 AM EST (3 PM Riyadh, 4 PM Dubai):
Segment 1, Middle East Institute Senior Vice President Amb. Gerald M. Feierstein joins us to discuss the situation in Yemen … this past week, President Biden’s Special Envoy to Yemen Tim Lenderking announced an additional $160 million in aid to Yemen while criticizing the roles played by Iran and the Houthis … he called it a dire and one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1908351/middle-east
In Segment 2 we speak with Ali Mohamed Khaled who is the sports editor at Arab News and we will be looking at how well Arab Athletes performed in the Tokyo Olympics that ended just this past week …
Arab athletes first participated in the summer Olympics when Egypt competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. …
Then in the summer of 1984 Moroccan runner Nawal El Moutawakel won the gold medal in the women’s 400 meters hurdles race at the Los Angeles Olympics; the first ever female Moroccan, Arab and Muslim athlete to become an Olympic medalist. And that gold medal was Morocco’s first in an Olympic competition, the women’s 400m hurdle.
This year … Tunisian Ahmed Hafnaoui caused a huge stir at Tokyo Olympics with a stunning 400m freestyle performance winning the Gold Medal … 14 Women were among the 17 Arab countries at Tokyo …
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1908311/sport
Join us live right here at Facebook.com/Arab News
“The Ray Hanania Show which is brought to you by Arab News at ArabNews.com on the US Arab Radio Network …
we’re broadcasting live on WNZK AM 690 in Greater Detroit and WDMV AM 700 in Greater Washington DC … and streamed live on Facebook.com/ArabNews and on the US Arab Radio Network at ArabRadio.US