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Ray Hanania -- Biography

Ray Hanania writes an award winning syndicated column analyzing Middle East events, is an author of several books, and is a humorist, satirist and professional stand-up comedian who launched his public comedy performances after September 11th to help break through the growing hatred and animosity. Hanania is the only Palestinian-American to write a regular nationally and internationally syndicated column. In his columns which analyze Middle East events, he seek to define "the moderate Palestinian voice" clearly seeking the moral position between right and wrong in a region overwhelmed by tragedy and suffering.

Hanania has also served as the National President of the Palestinian American Congress (1995-1996) to which he was elected on a platform of peace. He attended the 1993 White House peace signing between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, and participated in numerous meetings with President Clinton, President Arafat and officials of the Palestinian and Israeli Labor governments. He was a board member with Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam through the 1990s. He currently serves on the Entertainment Council of One Voice for Peace. He is also a founder of Yalla, Salam! (Palestinians for Peace Now) which seeks to express a Palestinian voice of peace in today's bitter conflict. His most recent book is "The Moral Jihad" which explores why Arabs and Muslims must face the growing extremism from within and denounce violence and injustices committed in their name.

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