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This week’s Ray Hanania Podcast reviews the past week’s events, issues and my recent columns in the Regional News newspaper, The Reporter and Southwest News-Herald on Jussie Smollett; my columns in the @ArabNews on the Oscar win by #RamiMalek, and at @MiddleEastMnt Middle East Monitor on the United Nations Human Rights Commission report condemning Israel’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip. I write for several newspapers each week and I am now doing a separate podcast to showcase the issues I am writing on each week. The podcasts are archived at www.TheArabStreet.org.

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This is the Ray Hanania Podcasta weekly overview of all my opinion columns, my radio interviews, and my reports on Middle East topics and on Mainstream American politics.

My Middle East columns are published in the Arab News Newspaper, the Middle East Monitor online, and the Arab Daily News online.

My mainstream columns are published at SuburbanChicagoland.com and in seven newspapers in the Southwest region of Chicagoland including The Regional News, The Reporter, the Des Plaines Valley News, and the Southwest News-Herald.

This podcast also includes my radio show broadcasts in Detroit on the 2ndFriday of every month live on WNZK AM 690 and also live online…

It’s a lot of information and a lot of resources … You can get information on all of my writings and podcasts on my website at www.Hanania.com  …

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