By Ray Hanania
Friday, October 9, 2009
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize and that puts world's evil on notice
By Ray Hanania
Friday, October 2, 2009
Chicago's Olympic bid failure can be blamed on Daley's failure to respect American Arabs
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Arab delegates of the Olympic Committee can begin change in anti-Arab American foreign policies
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Middle East Database, AskZad, Launches in North America and Europe
Middle East Database, AskZad, Launches in North America and Europe MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., USA - September 17, 2009. Arabia Inform and East View Information Services are pleased to announce the AskZad database has launched in North America. AskZad is a digital library of Arabic and English content emanating from the countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and containing over 500 million pages of content. Mohamed Elewa, founder and CEO of Arabia Inform, is seeing his vision come to life. "I founded Arabia Inform more than a dozen years ago. We created the Middle East's most comprehensive digitization, indexing and archiving center, aggregating and licensing content from around the region. I have always wanted to bring the richness of Arabic thought to the West, connecting our cultures. Now that we are launching AskZad in North America and Europe, I am seeing my ultimate wish realized. We will continue to develop our content to be more usable by both Arabic-speaking and non-Arabic speaking populations and I hope that Arabia Inform will add a new dimension and understanding to the geopolitical dialogue." The content found within AskZad collectively forms an unprecedented digital library of the most important publications from across the Middle East and is constantly growing. As of September 2009, AskZad contains: Pan-Arab News Index is a full Arabic language index - going back to 1998 - covering:
AskZad Full-Page Newspapers is a full-image collection of Middle Eastern Newspapers which AskZad is licensed to re-distribute. AskZad is pursuing an initiative through 2010 to license the top 100 Arabic language news publications from the Middle East. Pan-Arab News Index is a full Arabic language index going back to 1998 covering over 2,000 news sources from the Middle East, including hundreds of print newspapers, news websites, and magazines. PANI offers up-to-date indexing as well as article-level views of full content. Pan-Arab E-Books contains nearly 25,000 digitized books. Pan-Arab Academic Journal Index contains full Arabic language indices of more than 500 Middle Eastern university-published journals and approximately 150 organization-published journals. Pan-Arab Academic Journals is a database of complete, licensed content of almost 200 Applied Science and Social Science Academic Journals published in the Middle East. AskZad continues to negotiate with other journal publishers to expand its collection to include all of the 3,000 journals published across the Arab world. Pan-Arab Dissertations contains almost 7,000 dissertations published by graduate students in the Middle East. Pan-Arab Peer-Review Articles contains approximately 10,000 peer-reviewed articles in both Applied and Social Sciences. Pan-Arab Conference Proceedings covers full materials from approximately 50 Middle Eastern conferences (most held annually), primarily academic, and includes white papers, research presentations, etc. For more information, contact East View at info@eastview.com or view our recorded webinar on East View products from the Middle East. --End-- |
About East View Information Services East View Information Services is a leading provider of information products and services, including online databases of Russian, Chinese, and Arabic content, print periodicals, books, and microforms. The company serves all geographies and many market segments, including academic institutions, government organizations, corporations, public and federal libraries, and law firms. To learn more about our customers and our products, visit East View www.eastview.com. About Arabia Inform Arabia Inform is a Cairo and Dubai-based information services corporation aggregating, indexing and analyzing media content emanating from MENA countries. Product lines include AskZad, Middle East Monitor, Acumen Media Intelligence and Moheet news portal.. Founded in 1997 to serve government entities, Arabia Inform has also established itself in Corporate and Academic circles as a cornerstone for Middle Eastern current awareness. Arabia Inform has also opened an office in Washington, DC. Visit Arabia Inform at www.arabiainform.com. |
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Those pimping for the U.S. Census should be honest, its about their money not our community empowerment
The U.S. Government has done a great job hiring Arabs in our community to shill for their cause, to continue to oppress our community. The focus on the effort is the U.S. Census.
The census form asks for your Race, listing Hispanic, Latino or Spanish Origin. And they ask if you are Mexican, Mexican American (I didn’t know there were two categories of Mexicans), or Chicano? What kind of race is “Chicano?” What country do “Chicanos” come from? “Chicano-stan?”
They ask the same question again on the long form: Are you White? Black, African American or Negro? Are you American Indian or Alaskan Native and they even give you a place to write in your tribe name.
That’s not all. The form asks are you Asian Indian? Japanese, Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Korean, Guamanian or Chamorro, Filipino, Vietnamese, Samoan or Other Asian where they give you a space so you can print your “race” like Laotian, Thai, Pakistani, Cambodian “and so on.”
Oh, they don’t stop there. They ask are you “Pacific Islander” and ask you to print your race like Fijian, Tongan “and so on.”
Way at the bottom, in case they missed someone, someone not so important, they have the throw away line, to check here if you are “Some Other Race – Print Race.”
That is where I have to hand-write that I am “Arab.” And proud of it too, by the way.
Read the full original column that has Rashad al-Dabbagh, who works for the census, and some members of the Arab American Institute targeting me because I don't agree with their laid-back lack of activism against this problem. Click here to read the column?
The fact is that while these activists are cashing their checks and telling American Arabs, "Don't worry. You don't have to be listed on the census form, you can write it in so the AAI can complete their list," government agencies across America are discriminating against American Arabs specifically and directly because the U.S. Census DOES NOT list Arabs as "Arab" on the Census form.
The federal government requires police officers who pull people over for traffic stops to list the race of the person being stopped. But, they are required only to list those races AND ethnicities listed on the U.S. Census form.
Why is that important? If the race is listed on statistics, communities can easily see if they are being targeted for discrimination by police officers and then use that as "EMPOWERMENT" to demand that the police department hire American Arabs.
But American Arabs are NOT listed and police are not required to list us at all.
In every instance of EMPOWERMENT, not being listed on the U.S. Census means we are denied the ability to confront and stop discrimination, discrimination that is holding our community back.
And all that the activists who are PAID by the U.S. Census can do is attack me ands my argument and tell us little American Arab Sheep to "write your race on the form."
Well, writing your name on the form does not stop the discrimination and it DOES NOT force government agencies from the top of the Federal Government to the bottom of the local suburban government to recognize the rights of Americans Arabs.
When we ask school districts how many Arabs have they hired, the answer is "We are not required to list employees based on the race 'Arabs' and we only list race and ethnicity based on those identified in the U.S. Census."
I know what the problem is. It's easier for some in our community to take the handout from the government and keep the American Arabs in a stupor than to find the courage to stand up and change a system that needs to be change.
Arabs should and MUST be listed on the U.S. Census form and until we are, we will continue to be discriminated against, denied government grants, denied government jobs and marginalized in our society.
-- Ray Hanania
Sunday, July 26, 2009
New Book details secrets of overcoming mainstream news media bias
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ray Hanania
July 26, 2009 rayhanania@comcast.net
Book details insider tips on using the Internet to
side step the biased Mainstream American News Media
(Chicago) Veteran Journalist and award winning columnist Ray Hanania has been battling bias in the mainstream news media since the day he picked up his first newspaper in the suburbs of Chicago.
An American Arab, Hanania believed that the media was unfairly covering the Middle east conflict and was intentionally portraying American Arabs as terrorists, always ignoring their positive contributions to American society.
That battle has become his lifelong avocation and this week he announced the release of his latest book, a battlefield manual to fight against the inherent bias in the mainstream American news media using Internet networking strategies.
“Too often people in my community blame media bias on another race or religion but this is mistaken stereotyping to excuse away their lack of understanding of how the mainstream news media really works,” says Hanania who entered professional journalism in the early 1970s.
“In the past, the only way to battle mainstream media bias was to enter journalism as a profession and balance the two goals of journalism professionalism against activism. But with the rise of the Internet and the collapsing mainstream news media, you do not need to go to the mainstream news media to reach the public.
“You can do it on your own. ‘Secrets of New Media Networking’ helps you understand not only how to set up an effective Internet Media Network to promote your community, views, activities, opinions and more. But it also walks you through a real understanding of communications in America and the principles that make message compelling.”
Hanania manages a network of four major web sites, 11 blogs, writes for more than two dozen newspapers in print and online, manages several online news organizations, hosts his own morning radio show and weekly cable TV show, and uploads his radio and video broadcasts to the Internet. Merging in social networking strategies and other online assets, his network reaches millions of people every year.
“The mainstream news media is biased and they won’t change. That bias more than any other factor is what is helping to undermine the media and force many mainstream newspapers to close,” Hanania says.
“You can still use the mainstream news media, but you do not need them to get your message out. You can create your own media and my book helps you do it in a professional and effective manner.”
For more information on Secrets of New Media Networking, visit www.TheMediaOasis.com.
Contact Ray Hanania at rayhanania@comcast.net
236 Pages, $34.95. Published by Hanania Enterprises Ltd., and CafePress.com
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Chicago 2016 Olympic bid jeopardized by Mayor Daley's failure to seriously address needs of American Arabs
Discrimination against Arabs in Chicago could jeopardize the Chicago bid and Mayor Daley has the ability to change it. But will he?
-- Ray Hanania




