Honor the agreement you signed
By Daoud Kuttab A little over a year ago, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Quartet envoy James Wolfensohn, Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz, the PA’s Muhammad Dahlan and the EU reached an agreement to allow Palestinians free movement in and out of the Gaza Strip.
Statement issued at the end of the Middle East and North Africa
Statement issued at the end of the Middle East and North Africa day during the Amarc9 conference held in Amman 11 November 2006 We the participants of the Amarc9 conference held in the Jordanian capital Amman on Saturday November 11, 2006 request the following
A changing channel
By Daoud Kuttab When it first appeared, the new satellite channel broadcast from Qatar reflected its own name. Al-Jazeera – Arabic for “the island” – represented a haven of professional, independent, current affairs programming in a sea of one-sided, government-controlled Arab media. Until al-Jazeera’s journalists, mostly BBC-trained, arrived on the scene, the average Arab citizen’s […]
Lame Duck Potential
By Daoud Kuttab In a surprise meeting with journalists gathered at the home of Jordanian Information Minister Nasser Judeh, King Abdullah sounded worried about the Palestinian situation. The coming six months may witness a major breakthrough. If not, we will be in for another long hiatus. One issue that seems to be on the way […]
Jordan radio station informing the community
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCE By DALE GAVLAK ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER AMMAN, Jordan — The breathless caller was desperate, with nowhere else to turn:”Help me to get a Bedouin and his camels and sheep out of my street,”he pleaded.”The herd nearly attacked two neighborhood boys.”
The day I met the King
November 8, 2006 When this day started I had no idea that by day’s end I would have shaken hands (twice) with the King of Jordan and even ask him a question. The news all over tv was the children and women killed in the early morning hours when Israeli missiles hit their homes […]