Palestinian American standup comedy American style

Palestinian American standup comedian, author and columnist performs comedy for the anniversary of the Arab American News in Dearborn, Michigan in 2004. 

A humorous blast from the past video on YouTube.

This sampler of Ray Hanania’s comedy touches a little on politics, on post Sept. 11 security concerns, Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Palestinian marriage, and growing up Arab in America.

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After performing this comedy routine, introduced by former President of The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Mary Rose Oakar, Hanania went on to launch the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour with Israeli Charley Warady and comedians Aaron Freeman and Yisrael Campbell in 2007 performing for hundreds of venues around the world including in Dublin, London, Dubai, Jerusalem, Ramallah, dozens of colleges throughout the United States, New York, Austin at to a sold out crowd at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto.

For more information on Hanania’s comedy visit www.Hanania.com.

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Ray Hanania

Ray Hanania is an award-winning columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing, Hanania writes weekly opinion columns on mainstream American & Chicagoland topics for the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, the Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers, and Suburban Chicagoland.  

His award winning columns can be found at www.HANANIA.COM Subscribe FREE today

Hanania also writes about Middle East issues for the Arab News, and The Arab Daily News criticizing government policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hanania was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New America Media in November 2007, and is the 2009 recipient of the SPJ National Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing.

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