The 2024 Daoud and Salam Kuttab annual Newsletter

By Daoud Kuttab On Sept. 13, 1993, Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas met on the South Lawn of the White House to sign[…]

By Daoud Kuttab Discussions about pan-Arab issues these days undoubtedly include the name of the Gulf country Qatar, repeated in various contexts, often[…]

By Daoud Kuttab The Jordanian Cabinet’s decision to scrap wintertime came at the most difficult time: one day before a long holiday and[…]

By Daoud Kuttab After attending a debate about the new Elections Law, the moderator told me that MP Abdullah Ensour wanted to talk[…]

By Daoud Kuttab Amman, Jordan At an international press-freedom event in Jordan 12 years ago, I was impressed with government officials’ words about[…]

By Daoud Kuttab Election fever has hit most Palestinian cities. However, the elections planed for October 20th will only be municipal ones, and only[…]

By Daoud Kuttab This week, family and friends crossed international borders and military checkpoints and overcame the usual political bureaucracies to attend my[…]

By Daoud Kuttab The Palestinian leadership seems to be on the verge of change. It is very likely that this will be the[…]

By Daoud Kuttab Among the most important rights achieved by Arab demonstrators in the past two years are the freedoms of assembly and[…]

By Daoud Kuttab For the second time in less than three months a leader of a major US party stereotypes Palestinians in racists[…]