Ray Hanania is a columnist (every Wednesday) with the Jerusalem Post and every Sunday with PalestineNote.com. His facebook page is .

Hanania's parents are Christian immigrants from Mandatory Palestine. 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 1985-1992 for the Chicago Sun-Times. From 1993-1996 he was publisher of the suburban Villager Newspapers group and spokesperson for the Town of Cicero . 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. He is managing editor of the Arab American Writers Syndicate,, spokesperson for the Town of Cicero and he is the host of a live Morning Radio talk show Monday - Friday on WJJG 1530 AM Chicago. The show broadcasts every morning at 8 am and is simulcast in audio and video.. Hanania is the CEO of Urban Strategies Group .

His internationally-syndicated column, carried by Creators Syndicate 2002-2005 and is again syndicated by Creators Syndicate (2010–present), 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 formerly with the Arlington Heights Daily Herald (2002–2009), and has written a humor/serious column for www.YnetNews.com the website of Yedioth Ahronoth, the largest newspaper in Israel. Hanania writes a weekly column for the Jerusalem Post (every Wednesday) and also for PalestineNote.com. He is the Baby Boomer Blogger and editor of www.ArabAmericanTVOnline.com. He currently writes for various publications including the HuffingtonPost.com, the Arab News in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and for other US and international newspapers. He is political editor of the Southwest News-Herald newspaper on Chicago's Southwest Side and suburbs, and publisher of the National Arab American Times Newspaper at www.AATimesNews.com which distributes more than 65,000 papers through 650 Arab American grocery stores in all 48 continental American states.

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" which broke the Arab comedian taboo of refusing to appear with Israelis.

During one of the peace tours trips to Israel, Hanania performed at Off The Wall Comedy Basement, Jerusalem's only stand up club.

Hanania was removed from one of his first comedy appearances at the last minute at Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago in August 2002 when Jewish American comedian Jackie Mason refused to have him open for him. Mason's manager said it was because of Hanania's inexperience (he had turned to stand-up comedy after 9/11, and had made fewer than 20 performances) and because he is a "Palestinian." Hanania argued he performed 30 times for Zanies including as a Featured Comedian at Zanies Vernon Hills.

Hanania is also the host of the morning radio talk show in Chicago, "Mornings with Ray Hanania," broadcast weekday mornings Monday thru Friday from 8 am until 9:30 AM on WJJG 1530 AM Radio.www.RadioChicagoland.com and co-host of Radio Baladi (simulcast in Chicago and Dearborn on WNZK 690 AM Radio and live on the Internet at www.RadioBaladi.com). He is the host of Star Chef Chicagoland Star Chef Chicagoland which is a weekly reality show featuring celebrity chefs reviewed by celebrity judges on Comcast Cable TV Channel 19 Fridays 7 or 8:30 pm in 145 Chicagoland suburban communities.