Ray Hanania's The Arab street PodcastFormer Chicago City Hall reporter and political columnist Ray Hanania writes opinion columns on mainstream issues & politics for the Southwest News Newspaper Group and SuburbanChicagoland.com, and on Middle East issues for the ArabNews.com and TheArabDailyNews.com. His award winning Op-Ed columns and podcasts are archived at www.Hanania.com.

Hanania covered Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992, and writes weekly columns on every topic under the sun. He is the recipient of four Peter Lisagor Awards from the Chicago Headline Club, the 2009 SPJ/Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing, and was named Best Ethnic American Columnist in America in November 2006 by the New America Media.