Palestine, media, Jordan, community radio, online journalism
Mideast suspicion of US foreign policy fertile grounds for rumors By Daoud Kuttab Initially it seemed like a true story. A blogger reports on a lecture given by an advisor to the republican presidential nominee making outrageously radical statements. It should have raised some eyebrows but it didn’t. The blog starts by the name of…
Local community radio breaks Arab sound barrier Sun, 12-11-2006 By Dale Gavlak, The Associated Press AMMAN, November 12 — The breathless caller was desperate, with nowhere else to turn: “Help me get a bedouin and his camels and sheep out of my street,†he pleaded. “The herd nearly attacked two neighborhood boys.†Another caller wanted…
Jordanian lower house sues Radio Al-Balad for “insulting” chamber LENGTH: 405 words Text of report in English by privately-owned Jordan Times newspaper on 5 March [Report by Mohammad Ghazal: “Radio Al Balad banned from broadcasting Lower House sessions”] AMMAN -The Lower House has filed a lawsuit against Radio Al Balad, formerly Ammannet, and banned it…
There is no avoiding land for peace Daoud Kuttab After Israel’s crushing defeat and occupation of Arab lands in 1967, the United Nations introduced the concept of land for peace into the conflict by unanimously enacting Security Council Resolution 242. Much has been said about whether the resolution demands Israel to withdraw from all “the…
Obama’s promises fail at the AIPAC conference By Daoud Kuttab It was so sad. To see a grown tower of a man come to his knees. Just like everyone before him, the presumptive democratic followed the suit of all US political leaders before him and bowed down at the footsteps of the pro Israel lobby….
It ended rather quickly. After punching in the grades on the special peoplesoft web site of the university my last formal activity at Princeton University was over. In the span of this year I taught upper class students a seminar entitled New Media in the Arab world, ran a freshman seminar class entitled Authentic Arab…
published in the Huffington post The Kippa, the Keffiya, Green and Orange by Daoud Kuttab Upon arriving for my freshman orientation at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania back in 1971, I was asked to wear a cardboard beanie. Having just come from Jerusalem I was rather upset at having to wear that head covering. The…