June 30, 2008: Interview with Michael Lloyd editor in chief of ALO Hayati Magazine on Arab American and Middle East publishing, magazines, news media, journalism. Background on ALO Hayati, www.ALOMagazine.comits goals, successes, challenges and what the publication looks for in terms of submissions. Listen to the PodCast online now?
June 23, 2008: Interview with Joseph Haiek the publisher of the News Circle/Arab American Affairs Magazine, based in Los Angeles. Joe Haiek is an institution in Arab American journalism and has been publishing the News Circle/Arab American Affairs Magazine since 1972, celebrating 26 years. An immigrant from the 1967 War who was forced to leave Jerusalem in Palestine, Joseph recognized right away the need to publish a newspaper/magazine in English not just for the Arab community in the United States but also for the American public to be able to read the Arab American history and narrative and to get a balanced view of the events in the Middle East. He is also a founder of the Arab American Press Guild, and the Arab American Historical Foundation. The magazine web site is www.Arab-American-Affairs.net. Haiek discusses the challenges facing ethnic news media and journalism in America, including the difficulty of educating a community that comes from the oppressive Middle East about the power of the news media and communications. Listen to Podcast?
June 18, 2008: Interview with Jack Shaheen, professor of Mass Communications, the author of several books examining the portrayal of Arabs in the media and in Hollywood movies, and the producer and writer of the documentary Reel Bad Arabs which is based on the title of his very popular book. www.ReeelBadArabs.com. (Interview, 31 minutes)Go to Podcast?
June 16, 2008:Interview with Cedar News Newspaper publisher Michel El-Zbaidi on the history of his newspaper and stories about the Lebanese and Arab American community. Cedar News is based in New Jersey. El-Zbaidi talks about the discovery under the reckage of the World Trade Center of the remains of a Lebanese Maronite Church that was located there long before the Twin Towers were built.Go to Podcast?
May 28, 2008: Interview with Suzanne Manneh on the phenomena of Palestinian and Arab Hip-Hop artists. May 28, 2008. Manneh discusses the rise of hip-hop as a form of creative social protest and expression for Palestinian and Arab youth not just in the United States but also in the Middle East. Go to podcast?
Janet McMahon, Managing Editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Listen to Podcast?
Palestine Chapter of NAAJA (NAAJA-US is proud to offer all NAAJA-PALESTINE members FREE CREDENTIALS. Please submit your application as a NAAJA-PALESTINE Network member)
Mohammed Najib Jane's Defence Weekly
Freelance Journalist
Ramallah, Palestine
Mohammed Mar'i Columnist, Arab News,
Saudi Arabia
Ramallah, Palestine. Frmr editor of the Palestine Media Center, PNA Ministry of Information, and journalism graduate Birzeit University.
ONLINE VIDEO INTERVIEWS
ARAB ETHNIC
MEDIA
An Interview with journalist and columnist Sam Bahour:
Interview with the Publisher & Editor of al-Offok al-Arabi, one of Chicago's two Arab American Newspapers: Click Camera Icon or this sentence to go to Google to view more Options.) 30 Minutes: Interview with publisher & editor of al-Offok al-Arabi Arab American community newspaper:An interview with Amani and Abder Ghouleh. Amani is Publisher and editor and Abder is English language editor of al-Offok al-Arabi, one of Chicago's two Arab American ethnic newspapers. Discussing the challenges of publishing an ethnic newspaper, their focus, how they hope to improve and the impact on the community in Chicago.
Interview with the Editor and the Publisher
of Islamica Magazine.
Ray Hanania interviews Firas Ahmad, Islamic Magazine deputy editor, and M. Salahuddin Khan, Islamica Magazine publisher. (Khan lives in Chicago and was an executive at a major Fortune 500 company before he came to help Islamica Magazine.)
IN MEMORIAL TO A GREAT ARAB AMERICAN JOURNALIST
AZIZ SHIHAB (1927-Oct. 22, 2007)
veteran Dallas Newspaper editor, reporter and publisher; author
Aziz Shihab was born in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1927 and lives in Dallas. A pioneer in Arab American journalism, Shihab worked both as a writer and editor for The Jerusalem Times, The San Antonio Express News, and The Dallas Morning News. He published his own newspaper in the 1990s, The Star. His memoir/cookbook, "A Taste of Palestine," was published in 1993 and is in its third printing. And he recently published "Does the Land Remember me?" Aziz has been a member of NAAJA since its founding in 1999.
Ray Hanania -- An award winning columnist, author and radio talkshow host, Hanania is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years experience. Named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" 2006/2007 by the New America Media Association, he is a writer with HuffingtonPost.com, managing editor of the Arab American Writers Group Syndicate, a columnist with the Southwest News-Herald in Chicago, and a contributor to the Saudi Arab News. Hanania is publisher of the National Arab American Times Newspaper and hosts the live radio talk show Radio Chicagoland on WCEV 1450 AM Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 6 PM (listen to archived shows online). He also hosts a weekly Cable TV Show "30 Minutes" broadcast in Chicago's 150 suburban communities. Ray has been a member of the SPJ since 1979 and serves on the SPJ Diversity Committee.
Lara Salahi has worked with broadcast television news stations from the ABC affiliate in Marquette, Michigan to CNN's Anderson Cooper, and has written for PBS and UPI. A graduate of Boston University Colleges of Communications and International Relations, Lara is a co-writer for the al-Sahafiyeen SPJ-Arab Journalism Blog.
SPJ-Arab American STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Lorraine Ali is an award winning feature writer for NEWSWEEK Magazine. Lorraine Ali is a Los Angeles-based Senior Writer who’s written extensively about culture and the arts since joining Newsweek in 2000. She co-authored Newsweek’s widely-acclaimed “The New Infidelity” cover, wrote the popular feature “You and Your Quirky Kid,” landed a rare interview with Pearl Jam and, as an Iraqi-American, has contributed several insightful pieces on Arab America and the Iraqi Diaspora overseas (“When Home Becomes Hell)”. Ali joined the magazine in New York as a General Editor and music critic before moving to Los Angeles as a Contributing Editor in March 2004. She has covered everything from abstinence trends among American teens to mafia culture in Southern Italy and her interview subjects include Jenna Bush, Michael Moore, Hilary Swank, Jay-Z, the Rolling Stones and Johnny Cash. Ali won Best Online Feature from the New York Association of Black Journalists in 2007, the 2002 "Excellence in Journalism Award" from the National Arab Journalists Association and her story “West Bank Hardcore” appeared in Da Capo “Best Music Writing 2001.”
Prior to joining Newsweek, Ali was a senior critic for Rolling Stone, a music columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Mademoiselle and a regular contributor to GQ. Ali has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Ladies Home Journal, SPIN, Harper’s Bazaar and The Village Voice. She was voted 1997’s Music Journalist of the Year. In 1996, she won Best National Feature Story honors at the Music Journalism Awards.
Hannah Allam is
Middle East correspondent and Baghdad Bureau Chief for the
McClatchy Newspapers. Additionally, she writes the Middle East Diary blog for McClatchy Newspapers from the Middle East. Member SPJ.
Hikmat Beaini is the publisher of
Al-Nashra Newspaper and manager of the
Arab Media House Publishing in
Washington D.C.
Antoine Faisal is the publisher of
Aramica Newspaper based in
Brooklyn, New York and covering the nation's East Coast. Member SPJ.
Amani Ghouleh is the
Publisher,
al-Offok al-Arabi Newspaper.
Covering the Chicagoland Arab American community in English and Arabic .
Chicago. Member SPJ
Reyad Ajour graduated from Birzeit University in Radio and TV. Media studies, Worked as a news reporter in Wattan TV, a news presenter and editor in Radio Ajyal in Ramallah. Completed master studies in internationalization and communication and worked as a field reporter for Radio al hurreyh in Italy. And now freelancing for Al Mustaqbal newspaper in Chicago.
Dina Ahmad is a reporter with Aramica Newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York.
Mohammed Reda Bouchefra is an Algerian journalist based in New York City. He is the publisher of a new newspaper, El Wihda (www.elwihda.com) based in Paterson, New Jersey and covering the nation's East Coast. Previously, he worked as the "redaction director" at ''Mudir Tahrir'' of the Arab American Newspaper al-Manassa al-Arabia,'' and i correspondent for the Algerian newspapers: el Massar el-Arabi and Sada Wahrane.
Nader F. Dagher
Journalism student
Journalism intern, 2000: Al-Hayat alJadeeda - Ramallah (Palestine). Graduate student (Mass Communication) at UW Whitewater B.A degree mass communication & Journalism, Birzeit University.
Khaled Dawoud
Bureau Chief
al-Ahram Newspaper, Washington D.C.
Ali Ido is a photojournalist, freelancing for Reuters and the Post tribune in Northwest Indiana. Reach him at IdoNetworkNews.com or idoprophoto.net. Ido is an Arab American photographer and photojournalist just after taken training in photography and motion pictures photography school in New York City Interned at KVIQ 6 in Eureka California as a News Cinematographer shooting film 16 mm for several months then moved back to New York City worked in different jobs not
In photography. Ido began as a freelancer for political "TV Spot," a New Jersey video production company. He has provided photography for musical videos of many famous Arabic singers, and has freelanced for Reuters TV. He was the assistant to the late photographer Dick Sawicki. To Ido, still photography and photo journalism is more powerful in telling a story. Ido moved to North west Indiana and worked for the Hammond Times as an Advertising photographer. Ido now freelances for the Post Tribune and publishes a photography web page. He uses images to tell the news story. Believes in freedom
of speech. Ido believes journalists should be independent, and speak out with courage to keep the news and the Internet uncensored.
Pierre Kattar
WashingtonPost.com Email Pierre Pierre's Podcasts
Pierre has produced stories from Lebanon, France, Italy and the U.S. His work as both photographer and editor has won several awards from the White House News Photographers' Association, the National Press Photographers Association and has contributed to two Edward R. Murrow Awards. Pierre also produces multimedia stories which include video, audio, info-graphics and 360° panoramas.
Yousef Marei
Show Host/Producer
WCEV 1450 AM,
Chicago
(Saturday, 3-5 PM) www.iavcc.org www.wcev1450.com (listen to live broadcast)
Dalia M. Mousa
Editor-In-Chief, The Arabic Times
Assignment Editor/Producer,
First Coast News NBC/ABC here in Jacksonville, Florida. www.ArabicTimes.org
Weam Namou
Freelance journalist
Weam Namou was born as a minority Christian in Baghdad, Iraq and came to America at age ten. She is the author of The Feminine Art and The Mismatched Braid. www.HermizPublishing.com
Wafaa' Al-Natheema is a writer, editor and independent journalist. She has more than a decade of experience in traslation in the fields of medicine, law, literature and business. She is the founder of the Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS), an independent, tax-exempt and educational organization in Cambridge, MA. She can be reached ar http://www.INEAS.org
Fouad Oujani
Publisher, ArabsWord,
Colorado & Rocky Mountain Region
Oujani was the former Editor-in-Chief of Arabic section of AKHER KHABAR, a bilingual (Arabic/English) social and political Newspaper published in Colorado and distributed in the United States, serving the Arab-American communities, responsible of all editorial aspects of the Arabic section writer of two columns. He is now publisher of the new newspaper ArabsWord which covers the same region.
Courtney C. Radsch
Ph.D. Candidate/
School of International Service
American University, Washington D.C.
Kay Siblani is the co-publisher of the Arab American News Newspaper in Dearborn, Michigan.
Ahmed Soliman is broadcast journalist serving two years as an on air host with Bridges TV. A columnist and author, his most recent book is "Born in the USA: Reflections of an Arab and Muslim-American Journalist," available through Amazon.com and other national books stores. A member of the Arab Writers Group Syndicate, Ahmed is based in New Jersey.
Hesham Tillawi
TV Show Host
Current issues with Hesham Tillawi can be viewed Live every Tuesday evening between 6:30-8:30 PM Central Standard Time on Cox Cable system Channel 15 in Louisiana as well as Live on the Internet at www.currentissues.tv. The show is also broadcast on Bridges TV via cable, satellite, and broadband and on Amazonas satellite World Wide. Current Issues the radio show airs live around the World on Broadband and shortwave 5.050 and many stations around the U.S. every Saturday 4-6 PM Central Time on www.rbnlive.com
Abdennour Toumi is an Algerian journalist based in the United States and analyst on the Islamist question and has been dealing with this topic since 1990. He is Phd. candidate on political science at Toulouse University I. Toumi writes extensively on the Algerian fundamentalist movement and gives lectures on the subject. His analysis extends also to the foreign policy of Middle Eastern and North African countries. He is currently writing a book on the Algerian Islamist Movement. His web site is: www.nourinternationalreport.com
Saudi-Egyptian writer/journalist with a passion for writing. Started my journalism experience through my high school newspaper writing class including for the American International high school newspaper in Egypt, later on moved to California and wrote for the California State University paper ( Daily Titan) for over half the time I was enrolled there. It was an amazing experience, I took pictures, did page layouts and of course wrote in all tones!Also during my time at CSUF I internship-ed for the Capistrano Dispatch community newspaper in California. Later I freelanced for Alakhbar newspaper as a writer/copy-editor and photographer. Afterwards, I took another internship as a marketing director assistant & copy editor at INQUARTA, nations leading grad school admissions advising. First professional journalism position at the Coastline Pilot, LA Times community Paper in Laguna Beach, CA, then started freelancing and part-timing for a few of the Orange County Register community papers, the first was The Anaheim Bulletin, second was the Laguna Woods Globe and last was the Orange City News. After a few other non-journalistic jobs, I had to move back to Cairo and start my journalism career there. I started working for a launching fashion magazine called London Runway, later moved to a more established one (the leading international Arab magazine) named Enigma and freelanced for another one in the time being called Euphoria.
Mohammed Mar'i
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Anthony Shadid
Mansour El-Kikhia
Yousef Marei
Fouad Oujani
Ahmed Soliman
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Saudi-Egyptian writer/journalist with a passion for writing. Started my journalism experience through my high school newspaper writing class including for the American International high school newspaper in Egypt, later on moved to California and wrote for the California State University paper ( Daily Titan) for over half the time I was enrolled there. It was an amazing experience, I took pictures, did page layouts and of course wrote in all tones!Also during my time at CSUF I internship-ed for the Capistrano Dispatch community newspaper in California. Later I freelanced for Alakhbar newspaper as a writer/copy-editor and photographer. Afterwards, I took another internship as a marketing director assistant & copy editor at INQUARTA, nations leading grad school admissions advising. First professional journalism position at the Coastline Pilot, LA Times community Paper in Laguna Beach, CA, then started freelancing and part-timing for a few of the Orange County Register community papers, the first was The Anaheim Bulletin, second was the Laguna Woods Globe and last was the Orange City News. After a few other non-journalistic jobs, I had to move back to Cairo and start my journalism career there. I started working for a launching fashion magazine called London Runway, later moved to a more established one (the leading international Arab magazine) named Enigma and freelanced for another one in the time being called Euphoria.