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CounterPoint Ep. 13
Hamas versus Fatah: Palestinian Civil War?
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COUNTER POINT Episode 13: Hamas & Fatah. A Civil War? Co-hosts Ray Hanania and Ali Alarabi fiercely debate the issues surrounding the fighting between Hamas and the Fatah organization and the disarray of the Palestinian Government. What is their future? Should Palestinians always blame Israel for their problems? Is Fatah's opposition to Hamas leadership legitimate? Is Hamas a legitimate government? Fiesty. No-holds barred. Tough issues you won't hear discussed anywhere else.
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Oct. 22 , 2006
The Lexicon of War: Lebanon
The media and journalism rhetoric of war and the bias against Arabs and Muslims in the American media. Ali Alarabi and Ray Hanania discuss the various terms and phrases misused by journalists and reporters that distort the coverage of the Middle East unrpofessionally. (View show on Google with screen controls?)
CounterPoint Episode 11/
Oct. 6 , 2006
Media Coverage of the Lebanon War
How did the mainstream American, Israeli and Arab media cover the Israeli-Lebanese war? Was coverage balanced? Or was it biased as it often is in all of the media forums? Veteran journalists and co-hosts Ali Alarabi and Ray Hanania tackle these and other questions in this edition of CounterPoint. (Amnesty International did, after this show was taped and after the war, declared that Hezbollah aslo committed war crimes.)
BOOK ENDS: Reporters without Borders produced the phenomenal collection of essays in "Israel / Palestine: The Black Book." The essays explore issues of media coverage, lexicon and challenges in covering the accurate story of the conflict. Haaretz reporter Sayed Kashua, an Arab Israeli, writes a novel "Let it be Morning" that explores the challenges facing a Palestinian in Israel who returns to his original village. (Oct. 6, 2006 broadcast)
SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
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Episode 10, Lebanon War Aftermath
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Episode 10: The Aftermath of the Lebanon War. Co-hosts Ray Hanania and Ali Alarabi discuss the impact of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the rise in stature and power of Hezbollah, and the long term implications on all political factions.
Book Ends: Julia Fisher "A Future for Israel? Christian Arabs share their Stories" and Randa Ghazy's "Dreaming of Palestine."
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Episode 9, Sept. 11 Aftermath
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Episode 9: Sept. 11 5 years later, co-hosts Ray Hanania and Ali Alarabi return for a new 
season of COUNTERPOINT discussingthe impact and events before and after Sept. 11. Iraq. Bin Laden. Profiling,. Terrorism. Is Americaa safer?
Book Ends: Discussion on Fawaz Gerges book: "Journey of the Jihadists"
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Episode 8:
"Women & Rights in the Muslim & Arab World " July 21, 2006
Discussion on the challenges facing women in the Arab and Muslim world. Includes Honor Crimes laws and practices, and the distortion of alleged abuse by women. Women are mistreated everywhere, not just in the Arab World. In the Islamic World, the mistreatment is the result of male domination, not religious teaching."
Miss Universe Pageant npo distraction from politics
Dehuminization of "the other" By Ghali Hassan
Episode 7:
"The Gaza Crisis," July 12, 2006
Analysis of the crisis in the Gaza Strip. Also, discussion of Christian, Muslims and Jewish discrimination. Book reviews include Neal AbuNab's "The War on Terror and Democracy," and Amira Haas's "Reporting from Ramallah."
EPISODE 6:
NOW SHOWING: Interview with FBI Director Robert Grant," July 4, 2006
Discussion on the issue of combatting terrorism in the United States, Chicagoland, the case of Mohammed Salah of Bridgeview, profiling and targeting (profiling) of Arabs and Muslims. While the Bush Administration implements policy (and violates the laws to change laws), the Justice Department prosecutes policies and laws, and the FBI's main responsibility is to investigate.
EPISODE 5
NOW SHOWING: JUNE 27, 2006: A primer on Palestinian politics. Who's who in the Palestinian political organizations & groups; and evaluation of the ineffectiveness of the Arab American organizations and the Arab World governments.
EPISODE 4
NOW SHOWING: JUNE 19, 2006, Episode 4: "The AIPAC Study and the punishment of its authors, proving the very conclusions that it made in the document. "
EPISODE 3
NOW SHOWING, JUNE 12, 2006 Episode 3: An examination of 
bias in the mainstream American media and its impact. Discussion on how Arabs and Muslims are excluded from the mainstream American media's Op-Ed and commentary pages.
NOW SHOWING, PREMIERE EPISODE 2: JUNE 5, 2006: Palestinian-Israeli peace, King Tut and Coptic Orthodox Protests against Egypt, memorial to Nidal Zayed of Sharq al-Gharb Newspaper, 
Houston. Discussion includes the Olmert annexation plan: relations between Ismael Haniyeh and Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas and Fatah, Palestinian peace options; the trouble with the Arab World; Zahi Hawass and his anger at Exelon -- he cares for the dead but maybe not so much for the living; and a note about the passing of Arab Newspaper Publisher Nidal Zayed of Sharq al-Gharb (East West Newspaper) Houston
EPISODE 1: Pilot Episode
May 19, 2006 
Discussion on the bias in the American media, the challenges facing peace in Palestine and more.
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Click Camera Icon to go directly to Google to view more options on video. COUNTER POINT Episode 14: Discussion of Lina al-Khatib and her new book on Hollywood "Filming the Modern Middle East," and the image of Arabs in Hollywood and the world cinema. Also, a discussion of the portrayal of the Arabs and Muslims and the reality of the community. |
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SPECIAL: Lebanon a few months before the Israeli attacks against Hezbollah. A 30 Minutes Special, broadcast in March 2006. Tour this now tragic Lebanese country, one of the largest concentrations of Christians in the Middle East.
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Every day you can hear one side of the debate on issues related to the Middle East, the War on Terrorism, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Now, you can hear the other side, debated, discussed and diced up by two veteran Arab American journalists, columnists and Middle East analysts, Ali Alarabi and Ray Hanania.
Each show, Alarabi and Hanania take on the tough issues and offer unique perspectives often ignored or left out by the mainstream American news media and, sometimes, by the Arab World news media.
With the help of technology, we can now bring you the lively, feisty, irreverent and no-holds barred discussion with Alarabi and Hanania at your convenience, 24/7 any time simply by connecting to the Internet.
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Our first show launched May 24 and is continuing every week with new shows posted on Monday.
We try to link related news articles, columns and features related to each specific show's topic discussion. We also want to hear from you so send us your comments, thoughts and we may share them during one of our upcoming shows.
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