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LIFE AND CAREER Hanania's parents are Palestinian immigrants. His mother is from Bethlehem ; his father, George John Hanania, from a prominent Christian family in Jerusalem, served with the U.S. Army during World War II and with the Office Of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor of the CIA . He himself served with the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and in the Illinois Air National Guard . Hanania's wife, Alison, is Jewish ; they live in Orland Park, Illinois . Hanania long covered Chicago City Hall politics for various Chicago media. From 1977 - 1985 he reported for the Daily Southtown , and from 1985 - 1991 for the Chicago Sun-Times . From 1993 - 1996 he was publisher of the suburban Villager Newspapers group. He has also hosted a radio program on WLS (AM) , published the Middle Eastern Voice newspaper, and launched the Arab American View, an English-language newspaper. His internationally syndicated column, carried by Creators Syndicate 2002-2005 and is now self-syndicated, is from what Hanania terms "the moderate Palestinian voice", weighing the moral implications of different policy choices for actors in the various Middle East conflicts. He continues to write a Chicago political column carried locally with the Southwest News-Herald and the Arlington Heights Daily Herald, and has a humor/serious column for www.YnewNews.com the website of Yedioth Ahronoth , the largest newspaper in Israel . He is the Baby Boomer Blogger for MidEast Youth Web Site Blog (www.MidEastYouth.com) and editor of www.ArabAmericanTVOnline.com. He currently writes for the Jerusalem Post Newspaper and for the Arab News in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Hanania launched a standup comedy career to advance his agenda of promoting peace through moderation and using humor and co-founded with Israeli comedians Charley Warady and Yisrael Campbell and African American Comedian/Journalist Aaron Freeman "The Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour" Www.IPComedyTour.com which broke the Arab Comedian taboo of refusing to appeare with Israelis. The first tour was launched in January 2007. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
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QUOTES If we can laugh together, we can live together. Americans are the most educated peope in the world, but the least educated about the world. EXTERNAL LINKS
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