Publisher: The Arab Daily News | Original news & features on Arab Americans

About About The Arab Daily News Online Newspaper “In real estate, it is location, location, location. But in writing, it is content, content, content.” – Award winning journalist Ray Hanania 512-512AndroidPetra1LogoThe Arab Daily News is an independent, professional journalism online news website. We focus on issues involving American Arabs, Arab Culture and the Middle East. We are most interested in news about Arab communities in the United States, and also coverage of American Arab events and issues. We also provide coverage of Arab World events, also. We encourage freelance writers to submit articles for publication that are original. If you are interested in advertising on our website, please email Ray Hanania at RayHanania@theArabDailyNews.com. Read our press release on PR News Wire. We also require original photographs taken by you as the writer when possible. We often use photos from Wikipedia to supplement stories. Please feel free to send us your press releases, feature stories, news items and also obituaries so we can document the many great lives of Arabs in America. The Obituary section is very important to record our achievements, heroes and accomplishments as Arab immigrants to America. Send them by email to Editor. We are very proud Americans who are also proud of our Arab heritage and culture. We strive to make America a stronger, safer and better nation. We believe strongly in Free Speech, democracy, and civil rights for all regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or country of origin. PRESS RELEASE DISTRIBUTION SERVICE The Arab Daily News invites you to send us your press releases for possible inclusion in our reporting. We also will help you distribute your press release by sending it to our growing list of American Arab writers, bloggers, freelance writers, American Arab and Muslim news media, and professional American Arab and Muslim journalists. The cost is $150 for a press release of up to 600 words. Send the press release to RayHanania@TheArabDailyNews.com. Once submitted, use the PayPal Button on the main website (right column) and enter a payment of $150. Once the payment is cleared, we will distribute your press release to our growing email mailing list. ADVERTISING CLICK HERE TO GET INFO ON ADVERTISING WHY WE NEED A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER We have more than 100 ethnic Arab and Muslim newspapers in America, most overlapped in several cities including Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Cleveland. Much of what is written involves politics. As you can see online, even more involves opinion. What is missing, however, is quality feature and news writing. We don’t have enough news and feature stories about American Arabs. Too much of the editorial content in our newspapers is religious. There is a place for religious news but it dominates our community writing. Too much of the writing is commentary, written by activists and not journalists. These commentaries are good also, but too much commentary creates excessive internal community debate and not enough community information. What we need is more reporting on the events. Quality news reports on who we are. One of the most important aspects of a good community newspaper is being the “newspaper of record.” That means having a place where the history of our community — not just volumes of our opinions — is documented and archived for latter generations to read. Quality news stories that record our existence in the context of our role as Americans is missing. We know what we argue about but we don’t know much about the detailed history of our existence in America. It is spotty. Inconsistent. Incomplete. Feature stories add a support level for news stories. Feature stories explore the essence of who we are. They include profiles of community leaders that accurately reflect their history and experiences, minus the political bickering that often creates conflict rather than understanding. Too much writing focuses on politically motivated interpretations of events and people. So we don’t have a real understanding of who our community really is. We need more quality features and more quality news reporting. The Arab Daily News seeks to fill that near-empty void, to document our existence in America while also offering news about our homelands in the Middle East, the countries where we originate. These features and news are essential to a professional news media. Too much opinion can undermine an ethnic community. Over the years, the American Arab community has been undermined by this politically driven bickering and divisions. It has made us vulnerable to the stereotyping of the mainstream media and public. Without self-defined news and features, we have become slaves to the larger mainstream news media which views us in the narrow perspective of being terrorists, un-American and foreigners when in fact we are often more American than Americans themselves. American Arabs have served in the Military beginning in the Civil War. We have played significant roles in government and in local societies as leaders, not as controversies. We have made great contributions to America. Here at the Arab Daily News, we hope to make a small dent in changing this by offering original features and reliable news about who we are. That’s one reason why we have an Arab American News Wire, a place where organizations and individuals can showcase and brag about their activities and achievements and their lives. Our existence as American Arabs is important and we need to tell our story. Telling our story begins with you. Average American Arabs. Whether you are Christian or Muslim, or even Jewish Arabs, we want your news. We’ll still run opinion commentary to challenge public notions about who we are but the substance that will really make a difference for our success will come through increased writing of features and news about American Arabs. The health of any ethnic community like American Arabs is reflected in the health of its local ethnic news media. We want to elevate our news media to become more professional. Fair. Accurate. And, most importantly, to write the stories that traditional and mainstream media fail to do everyday. We need to tell our story and that’s what the Arab Daily News is all about. 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