Point to Point host Ray Hanania interviews Michael Lloyd editor-in-chief of ALO Hayati Magazine. Issues include the challenges facing Arab American and Middle Eastern ethnic media in the United States from finding talented writers to confronting bias in the mainstream American public to advertising hurdles. Arab, Arab American, Middle East, Journalism Journalist, reporting, news media, ethnic news media, magazine, Arab World, publishing, Lebanon, American, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Qatar, Dubai, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq

Interview with Joseph Haiek the publisher of the News Circle/Arab American Affairs Magazine, based in Los Angeles. Joe Haiek is an institution in Arab American journalism and has been publishing the News Circle/Arab American Affairs Magazine since 1972, celebrating 26 years. An immigrant from the 1967 War who was forced to leave Jerusalem in Palestine, Joseph recognized right away the need to publish a newspaper/magazine in English not just for the Arab community in the United States but also for the American public to be able to read the Arab American history and narrative and to get a balanced view of the events in the Middle East. He is also a founder of the Arab American Press Guild, and the Arab American Historical Foundation. The magazine web site is www.Arab-American-Affairs.net. Haiek discusses the challenges facing ethnic news media and journalism in America, including the difficulty of educating a community that comes from the oppressive Middle East about the power of the news media and communications.

POINT to POINT audio podcast: Interview with Jack Shaheen, professor of Mass Communications, the author of several books examining the portrayal of Arabs in the media and in Hollywood movies, and the producer and writer of the documentary Reel Bad Arabs which is based on the title of his very popular book. www.ReelBadArabs.com. (Interview, 31 minutes) June 18, 2008. Shaheen discusses Arabs as "easy targets" of defamation by Hollywood, his many books and his new documentary "Reel Bad Arabs" and his newest book "Guilty: Hollywood's Verdit on Arabs after 9/11"

POINT to POINT: Ray Hanania interviews Michel el-Zbaidi publisher of the Cedar News Newspaper based in Brooklyn. Cedar News is published twice monthly and is a Lebanese Arab American newspaper. It's focus is on Lebanese and Arab World and American issues, in both English and Arabic. Their web site is www.CedarNews.net. Zbaidi came to the United States from northern Lebanon in 2000 as a writer for many Arab World newspapers. He is a playwrite. And, he began publishing Cedar News in the United States in 2006. One of his first stories was the discovery of an artifact in the reckage of the World Trade Center. It was a stone which identified a Lebanese Maronite Catholic Church that apparently had been located on the WTC center site years before the Twin Towers were built. Other stories include an examination of Lebanese politics. Time 18:30 minutes. For more information visit www.TheMediaOasis.com and click the Point to Point link.

Ray Hanania's Middle East focused Interview Podcasts: Suzanne Manneh, a feature writer and reporter with the New American Media discusses a recent feature story she wrote on Palestinian and Arab hip-hop and its growing popularity as a form of expression on social and political issues for Middle Easterner youth in the Arab World and in the United States. The interview hosted by Ray Hanania was conducted May 28, 2008. Here is the link to Suzanne's feature at New America Media. This podcast is sponsored by the National Arab American Times newspaper at www.AATimesNews.com and by the National Arab American Journalists Association at www.NAAJA-US.com. Ray Hanania can be reached at www.hanania.com. Hanania also does podcast interviews on Mainstream American topics which are hosted by RadioChicagoland at www.RadioChicagoland.com.

 

Neha Mehra reports on her Youth News Segment on Radio Chicagoland Thursday May 22, 2008 WCEV 1450 AM Radio with host Ray Hanania, www.RadioChicagoland.com. Topics include a look at American Idol, Paula Abdul, Survivor, MTV reality shows, the Bachelor, Big Brother, Keeping up with the Kardashians, The Osbournes, Gene Simmons and Kiss, and more. What shows are young people watching? What is the attraction of reality TV shows. Ali Ido also joins in the discussion ont he live radio broadcast.

Radio Chicagoland news correspondent and paparazzi photographer Ali Ido discusses a wide range of weird and odd stories from New York to Chicago to New Zealand on Radio Chicagoland WCEV 1450 AM Radio with host Ray Hanania, www.RadioChicagoland.com.

Sharon Rachanski, the owner of the Tumbling and Cheerleading Academy (www.CheerleadingAcademy.com) in Orland Park on the sport of Cheerleading Thursday May 22, 2008 on Radio Chicagoland, WCEV 1450 AM Radio with host Ray Hanania, www.RadioChicagoland.com.

Southwest News-Herald reporter Dermott Connolly talks about the City Council rubber stamp by Mayor Daley to repeal to two year old ban on the sale of Foie Gras, a food delicacy produced by force-feeding ducks and geese untilt heir liver bloats, what many animal rights groups charge is a form of animal cruely on Radio Chicago Thursday May 22, 2008 WCEV 1450 AM Radio with host Ray Hanania, www.RadioChicagoland.com.

Neha Mehra presents her Youth Report on the dangers for young people on MySpace/Facebook Tuesday May 20, 2008. Mehra discussed the young girl who committed suicide after receiving horrible messages from a phony MySpace friend, a character allegedly created by the mother of a neighbor who wanted to see if she was talking about her son on Radio Chicagoland WCEV 1450 AM Radio with host Ray Hanania, www.RadioChicagoland.com.