Needs:

I need help.

- I need the web site translated into Arabic and Hebrew
(We can dub audio translations on to the videos)
- I need the videos and select speeches and columns translated into Arabic and Hebrew
- I need people to set aside their anger and believe again

- I am looking for college students in the West Bank willing to help promote the peace plan and create Yalla Peace (Yalla Salam groups)

- I am looking for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza interested in announcing their candidacies as members of the Yalla Peace Party to run for the Legislative Council seats

Ray Hanania following meeting with Palestinian
President Yasir Arafat in 1995 in the Gaza Strip

Ray Hanania with Yasir Abed Rabbo Minister of Information
in March 2001 during two week period as media consultant
to the Negotiation Support Unit and Abed Rabbo's Staff

ABOUT
Ray Hanania

Ray Hanania is an award winning former journalist and reporter. He has covered Chicago and Middle East politics for more than 32 years. Hanania writes a column every Wednesday for the Jerusalem Post and for PalestineNote.com.

Additionally, Hanania has worked as a senior vice president for public relations and public affairs for many mainstream American media companies and is CEO of Urban Strategies Group media.

Hanania is a morning radio talkshow host in Chicago (broadcasting to the 6 million population around Chicago, Illinois, USA Monday thru Friday from 8 until 9:30 am on WJJG 1530 AM, available online at RadioChicagoland.com). In addition to radio and print media, Hanania also is an internationally acclaimed standup comedian who uses humor to bridge Arab-Israeli animosity and conflict. He also hosts a television Chicago broadcast every Friday night in 145 suburb Chicago communities. He co-hosts Radio Baladi (www.RadioBaladi.com) which simulcasts every Friday from 7 - 8 am Central (8-9 AM Eastern) a radio broadcast in English to audiences in Northern Illinois and Chicago, and Michigan, Northern Ohio and Windsor Canada.

He is a longtime peace activist who worked along side of the late Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and participated in many discusses with Professor Abu-Lughod and the late Edward Said.

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Highlights

- Spokesman Arab American Congress for Palestine (75-77)

- Debated Abba Eban on National TV on the need for a Palestinian State (76)

- National President of the Palestinian American Congress (95-96)

- Participated in meetings with Clinton, Arafat on promoting Oslo Peace Accords (93-95)

- Media trainer funded by Adam Smith Institute (MARCH 2001) Negotiation Support Unit Adviser to Abed Rabbo and staff

- National Board member, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (2010); Chicago Chapter board member (1980-2002, 2007-present)

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Born in the Diaspora in the United States, his family hails from Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Hanania served as the National President of the Palestinian American Congress (1995-96) elected unanimously on a platform supporting the then Oslo Peace Accords. And, he participated in meetings organized by President Bill Clinton at the White House on numerous occasions to help support the implementation of the peace place defined by the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the late Palestinian President Yasir Arafat.

Hanania has also served as a media consultant for several Middle East politicians and governments including in Beirut, Lebanon providing media training for the support staff for Gen. Michel Aoun, and also providing media training through the Adam Smith Institute in London for the Negotiations Support Unit headed by former Palestinian Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo.

He has managed more than 50 mainstream political campaigns and elections. He continues to writes popular political and media analysis for newspapers around thew world including the Arab News, the Jerusalem Post, PalestineNote.com and Arabisto.com.

Hanania is the recipient of four Chicago Headline Club Society of Professional Journalism Lisagor Awards for column writing and analysis. He was named Best Ethnic American Columnist in America by the New America Media, and is the recipient of the 2009 M.T. Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award.

In 2010, Hanania was recognized with a National SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing, detailing allegations of discrimination by a suburban Chicago American Arab grocer.