Arab American National Museum director Anan Ameri discusses the museum in Dearborn Michigan and details many of its exhibits. She also discusses the history of Arabs in America on Radio Chicagoland's Mornings with Ray Hanania on Friday Nov. 13, 2009 WJJG 1530 AM Radio www.RadioChicagoland.com,

Rev. Malek Rihani discusses the importance and religious significance of Halloween to Christians and to Christian Arabs on Radio Chicagoland's Mornings with Ray Hanania on Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 WJJG 1530 AM Radio www.RadioChicagoland.com.

Roxane Assaf, member of the Advisory Council on Arab Affairs for the Chicago Human Relations Commission, discusses the importance of Arab American Heritage month, programs scheduled during November and the challenges Arab American faces as well as their achievements in America on Roadio Chicagoland's Mornings with Ray Hanania on WJJG 1530 AM Radio, Monday Nov. 2, 2009, www.RadioChicagoland.com.

Mo and Rush of RiseUp Radio (www.RiseUpShow.com) discuss their new format addressing American Arab issues broadcast every Sunday at 10 am on 750 AM Radio. The hosts Rush Darwish and Mo Hammad push the envelope to help American audiences better understand the Arab people. On RadioC hicagoland's Mornings with Ray Hanania on Wednesday May 20, 2009, WJJG 1530 AM Radio, www.RadioChicagoland.com.

Hollywood filmmaker Malek Akkad, the son of famed Hollywood filmmaker Moustapha Akkad who was killed in a terrorist attack in Jordan in November 2005, discusses his efforts to continue the Halloween movie thrillers launched by his father, and other movie productions he is involved. His father was the maker of "The Messenger," the story of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, and also the Anthony Quinn starring film "Lion in the Desert." Arab American producers, directors, films, image, theater, television. On Mornings with Ray Hanania on WJJG 1530 AM Radio, Friday Feb. 13, 2009, www.RadioChicagoland.com.

Greg Orfalea, author of the new book "Angeleno Days" discusses his books and growing up Arab in America on Mornings with Ray Hanania on WJJG 1530 AM Radio, Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009 www.RadioChicagoland.com.

Standup comedian and online sensation Sherif Hedayat, an Egyptian Arab American comic, discusses his planned reality show, standup comedy shows, YouTube video projects and banters with fun and frolick on Mornings with Ray Hanania on WJJG 1530 AM Radio Wednesday Feb. 4, 2009 www.RadioChicagoland.com. His web site is www.SherifTV.com

Discussion about the new web page Arab America's Most Wanted (www.ArabAMW.com) ... the site focuses on its first case, the murder of Rana Ishmail Sat. Nov. 1, 2008 in Bridgeview at her office at 87th and Harlem Avenue. A man walked in a shot her several times fatally. Bridgeview Police asked for help in tracking down the kille rproviding pictures taken from the security video camera in the business. Discussion on WJJG 1530 AM Radio Mornings with Ray Hanania Tuesday Nov. 4, 2008 on the need for a web site to bring together information on crimes against Arab Americans. www.RadioChicagoland.com.

POINT TO POINT: Interviews with no boundaries with host Ray Hanania. Guest, Antoine Faisal, publisher of Aramica Arab American Newspaper based in New York. Faisal discusses challenges facing Arabs and Muslims in today's America, publishing an award winning Arab American ethnic community newspaper, and how Arabs and Muslims view the current political campaign election between Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin and Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Aramica is available online at www.Aramica.com. Point to Point is a Middle East focused and political themed audio interview broadcast available on the internet at www.TheMediaOasis.com and through iTunes, downloadable to podcasts. Topics also include a discussion about Middle East politics, the Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, Antoine's confrontation with police when he was maced at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Palestine, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and more. 23 minutes. Sept. 3, 2008

Award winning journalist, Aladdin Elaasar has just released his latest book: "The Last Pharaaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Volatile MidEast", predicting the downfall of President Mubarak of Egypt and the aftermath of the collapse of his regime. (Preview book?) He is the guest on POINT TO POINT, August 14, 2008 with host Ray Hanania. Packed with facts and telling the story of both modern and Ancient Egypt, how the modern Arab and Islamic Worlds evolved, and interviewing and quoting experts, politicians, journalists and Western diplomats, Elaasar tells a compelling story that needs to be read by every one. Combining an uncanny sense of clarity and understatement, Aladdin Elaasar weaves Egypt’s historical grandeur with an unnerving cascade of political intrigue that reveal a side of Mubarak the world cannot long ignore. In one fell swoop, my admiration for Egypt is both strengthened, and the source of my20unease revealed, as the author sheds light on the darkness of Egyptian politics that could one day turn catastrophic. With so much at stake, the west is slowly coming to grips with a new reality; a reality which no single book or author could possibly address. The Last Pharaoh should be indispensable to anyone hoping to understand Egypt’s role, not only the Middle East, but the potential for Mubarak’s Egypt to impact the destiny of global events. www.TheMediaOasis.com.

POINT TO POINT Podcast Interviews. Author John Paul Jones. "If Olaya Street Could Talk: Saudi Arabia, The Heartland of Oil and Islam" by Taza Press, 2007, based on his nearly three decades working in the Arabian peninsula in the medical field following his service in the Vietnam War. Jones talks about his firsthand impressions about Saudi Arabia is an easy-to-read book, and also about his launching of a publishing house to focus on books about the Arab World www.TazaPress.com. Interviewed by host Ray Hanania. www.TheMediaOasis.com. 23 minutes. August 1, 2008

Point to Point Podcast host Ray Hanania interviews Arab American journalist Anthony Shadid, Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in Iraq. Shadid is the author of several books including Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War which won the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize In 2003, The Washington Post's Anthony Shadid went to war in Iraq, but not as an embedded journalist. Born and raised in Oklahoma, of Lebanese descent, Shadid, a fluent Arabic speaker, has spent the last three years dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and Baghdad. The only journalist and Arab American to win a Pulitzer Prize for his extraordinary coverage of Iraq, Shadid is also the only writer to describe the human story of ordinary Iraqis weathering the unexpected impact of America's invasion and occupation. His writings are available at www.WashingtonPost.com. Go to www.TheMediaOasis.com for more information Point to Point: Interviews with no Boundaries. 23 Minutes. July 22, 2008

Veteran award winning columnists Ray Hanania and Ali Alarabi discuss and debate the most recent news in the Middle East on Point to Point: Interviews without Boundaries. The topics include the recent prisoner swap between the powerful Lebanese Shiite Militia Hezbollah and the Government of Israel, trading the remains of two Israeli solders killed when Hezbollah sought to capture Israeli soldiers to trade for its soldiers held by Israel in the summer of 2006, an assault that provoked Israel to launch a brutal retaliation against Lebanon's civilian population and Hezbollah strongholds. Israel released five prisoners, including the notorious Druse fighter and leader, Samir Kuntar (Kantar, Qantar), of a 1979 mission into Israel that resulted in the killing of an Israeli police officer and the murder of his four year old daughter. Kuntar was captured and served 30 years for the killings. Hezbollah returned the bodies of two Israelis killed during the July 2006 confrontation that spark the 34-day Israeli-Lebanon war, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. What are the moral issues involved and is there an issue of hypocrisy in criticism of Arabs for killing civilians while there is silence when Israel kills Arab civilians? And, Alarabi and Hanania discuss the recent war crimes indictment by the International Criminal Court of Sundanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the hypocrisy of singling out Arabs while excluding Israel and even Americans from I.C.C. prosecutions. The two discuss the issues involved in Sudan and Darfur where al-Bashir has been accused of supporting genocide, while supporters accuse pro-Western groups of inciting a vicious campaign of terrorism. You can read columns on both subjects by Hanania and Alarabi at www.ArabWritersGroup.com web site. 22 Minutes.

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.