Obama Will Announce the Closure of Guantanmo on January 20th
PUBLISHED ON THE HUFFINGTON POST President-elect Barack Obama will announce in his inauguration speech the intention of his administration to close down the Guantanamo prison. A source within the Obama transition team visiting Amman stated that the actual closure will take up to six months to complete because of the uncertainty of what to do […]
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كلمة داود كتاب ÙÙŠ اÙØªØªØ§Ø Ù…Ø¤ØªÙ…Ø± أريج قبل عدة أشهر وأثناء وجودي ÙÙŠ جامعة برنستون الامريكية شاركت عبر الانترنت وبالتعاون مع المركز الدولي للصØÙيين ÙÙŠ دورة للإعلامين العرب Øول الصØاÙØ© الاستقصائية. وضمن نشاطات الأسبوع الاول للدورة طلبنا من المشاركين مراجعة وسائل اعلامهم المØلية خلال الايام الثلاثة الماضية واختيار تØقيق إستقصائي لكي يتم مناقشته بين المشاركين […]
What preoccupies young Palestinian minds
following appeared in the Jordan Times and in the Huffington Post What preoccupies young Palestinian minds By Daoud Kuttab The occupation is foremost on Palestinian youth’s mind. This was made clear in the Palestinian village of Beita, near Nablus, at an event held on November 17: the opening of the youth development resource centre, funded […]
Undemocratic Arab regimes Afraid of Obama’s change
by Daoud Kuttab It seems like an appropriate enough cartoon. The depiction of the president elect Barack Obama with the US flag behind him and the bubble quoting Obama as saying the change has come to Washington. Looking up to the Obama depiction was an excited Egyptian woman congratulating the African American senator, reminding him […]
With Obama election, there’s hope for the Mideast
by Daoud Kuttab A curious thing has happened as Americans were choosing their first black president. Democracy suddenly ceased to be a bad word for many genuine democrats in the Middle East. In the aftermaths of the war on Iraq and as part of President Bush’s attempts to win the hearts and minds of Arabs, […]
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In Mideast, Obama Just Needs to Implement Agreements
The Huffington Post NOVEMBER 5, 2008 Daoud Kuttab Posted November 5, 2008 | 11:17 AM (EST) In Mideast, Obama Just Needs to Implement Agreements My eighteen year-old daughter Tania who is a freshman at Easter University in Philadelphia woke me up Wednesday morning with an exciting voice. “Dad, we won. I voted today and we […]
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This Bad Era Will Soon Be Over
This Bad Era Will Soon Be Over Not that professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University needs my help, but I couldn’t help staying quiet as the Republican smear machine picked on this soft-speaking American of Palestinian origin. I first met Professor Khalidi in the old city of Jerusalem. He was on a multi year summer […]