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Midnight Flight is an online book that tells the story of one family's experience during the hectic years of White Flight in Chicago. One night you would say goodnight to your neighbors of 20 years, go to sleep and wake-up and find a new family there. It also offers a background on Chicago life during the 1960s. You can also share your experiences during this period in Chicago history in our special Midnight Flight Guest Book.

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Satirical and compelling insight into the Arab American experience. A collection of essays to help you better understand the Arabs in America. By Award winning author, Ray Hanania

    "Ray Hanania has just published a book that takes the bull by the horns: I'm Glad I Look Like a Terrorist: Growing Up Arab in America. Humor and Reality in the Ethnic American Experience. It is a collection of autobiographical chapters, articles the author had published during his long journalistic career, and speeches. The author ponders issues with wry amazement and amusement. One chapter is entitled: "I Wonder if John Wayne Ever Ate Mensiff?"

    "The book has received favorable reviews in the press. Jim Ennes, veteran of the USS Liberty, wrote in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, "His book describes dozens of incidents that should make fair minded people cry out for the injustice. Hanania doesn't cry out. He doesn't complain. He thinks most Americans are bigots. He laughs about it. You will laugh with him."

Palestine News Service
September 1997

     "Ray Hanania's book ... is hilarious. A humorous but thoughtful insight into the daily lives of Arab Americans in a way many people need to understand them. ... You will laugh until you cry."

Jerusalem Review
March 1998

     "Very funny look at the life of an Arab in America in a series of unique essays. ... It touches the tragedy with humor."

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    "I am not a terrorist. But to run from the word 'terrorist' is wrong. I am glad I look like a terrorist because it gives me a special sword to help destroy the stereotype that continues to injure my people, distort our image and to cause otherwise compassionate Americans to engage in hateful acts of bias."
--  Ray Hanania
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JUST RELEASED Order the updated humor memoir of growing up Arab in America by Ray Hanania, one of America's funniest Palestinian American Arabs Or buy the eBook for Kindle and iPad. Click here Read - Media reviews - Reader reviews - Excerpts of book - Errata eBook -- Ray Hanania's "If We Can Laugh Together, We Can Live Together"	"Arabs of Chicagoland" By Ray Hanania Arcadia Publishing GET MORE INFO ON BOOK? 128 pages, 205 photographs dating back to the early 1920s, a historical overview of the three major immigration periods, the events that pushed immigration. The first-ever look at Chicago's Arab American community and their immigration to Chicago. Order from Barnes & Noble? | Order from Amazon.com? View content online? | Read story in Gulf News? eBook -- How to Overcome mainstream News Media Bias Using the Internet
Midnight Flight is an online book that tells the story of one family's experience during the hectic years of White Flight in Chicago. One night you would say goodnight to your neighbors of 20 years, go to sleep and wake-up and find a new family there. It also offers a background on Chicago life during the 1960s. You can also share your experiences during this period in Chicago history in our special Midnight Flight Guest Book. A personal reflection on the tragedy of Chicago's 1960s social and racial strife. Read it for free online. READ ONLINE BOOK NOW?	I'm Glad I Look Like a Terrorist: Growing up Arab in America Humor & Reality in the Ethnic American Experience By Ray Hanania (C) 1996 - 2008, USG Publishing Inc. All Rights Reserved 315 Pages, 5x8 paperback   Journalist, standup comedian and Chicago Morning Talk Show host, Ray Hanania takes you on a hilarious romp through his life growing up Arab in America. his father is from Jerusalem and mother from Bethlehem (Jesus is his cousin), Hanania's wife is Jewish (Shhhh! She thinks he's Puerto Rican!) Enjoy this book today and restore your faith in the hope for Middle East -- "If we can laugh together, we can live together." ORDER from CAFEPRESS.COM $24.95 -- 2nd Edition Click HERE to ORDER?

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The Role of humor as a form of commentary in Arab society is absent.
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YA HABIBI: Growing Up Arab in America is a novel about growing up Arab in America.

Founded on humor and real life stories, Ya Habibi: Growing Up Arab in America tries to help people understand the Arab American experience. The story is a story of every ethnicity. Many people reading the chapters will find similarities to their own lives, as ethnics themselves. "Humor is an excellent way to overcome the barriers that divide our society and shatter the stereotypes that feed into discrimination. I hope that this book will achieve those goals," Ray Hanania.

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Dear Ray,
I met you at the Arab Americans of Central Ohio hafleh in Columbus in June 2005. You presented a most comical and fascinating speech to us. I read your book, Ray, and it was just magnificent, poignant, compelling and enlightening. What a writer you are. And so accomplished. Thank you for writing your book, it is so true. May God bless you and your family and work and grant you many years, Insha Allah.
Sincerely, MRA, Columbus Sept. 16, 2005

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Table of Contents

Preface

Ya Habibi: An Arab Childhood
The Viaduct of Death
An American Christmas
A Close Shave
What’s In a Name
Muhammad Ali
I Wonder if John Wayne Ever Ate
Mensiff?
The Hollywood Arab
An Arab Bas Mitzvah
This Won’t Hurt a Bit
Under the Brookfield Zoo Lions
“To the Arab from the Jew”
A Media Consciousness
Under the Watchful Eye of the FBI
Journalism Was an Accident Some Wish I Never Had
“Keep Your Views on Your Side of the Typewriter”
An Artist of American Politics
Bury Me in Jerusalem
Making It Big Time

I Sent My Aunt a Letter
West Bank Story: In Search of Palestine
** Israel keeps It Borders Tight
** West Bank Scarred by Bullets
** Uprising is Rooted in Hatred
** Mother Cuts in on Soldiers’ Pursuit
** The Land is All -- to Two Peoples

I’m Glad I Look Like a Terrorist
Miss Liberty
It’s Always a Polaroid
An Electoral Lesson
The Miracle at St. George Church
Sunrise in Jerusalem
A MidSummer’s Night Dream
The Arabian Diaspora
No one met me on Jaffa Road
The Terrorist Threat in America Today
Lessons in the Oklahoma Bombing

Speeches on the Arab Experience:

Introduction
Speech to Roosevelt University: Outside Looking In
Acceptance Speech as National PAC President: A Vote for Moderation
Speech to the San Francisco PAC: We Haven’t Done Enough
Speech to the Muslim Public Affairs Council: Arab Political Empowerment
Speech to Hadassah, Chicago: A Vision of Peace
Speech to the Chicago Convention of ADC: Perception is Reality
Freedom of Speech: Conclusion

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