Daoud Kuttab

Palestine, media, Jordan, community radio, online journalism

  • Is the Arab world losing its diversity?

    By Daoud Kuttab The airlifting of a dozen-and-a-half Yemeni Jews to Israel last Monday received wide coverage. The action to evacuate 19 Yemenis to Israel is said to have included four stops and was done in cooperation with the US State Department. What happens to these Yemeni Jews, as well as what happened to the…

  • Gaza’s Christians prepare to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem

    By Daoud Kuttab Karam Qubrosi can’t believe that Israel is allowing so many Gazans to travel on the occasion of Easter. “This is a dream come true, especially for many of us in the age group of 18-35,” he told Al-Monitor. Speaking to Al-Monitor after reaching the West Bank town of Beit Sahour, Qubrosi, 28,…

  • Palestinian farmers caught in political tug of war

    By Daoud Kuttab Hundreds of Palestinian dairy and meat farmers find themselves caught in a political struggle between Israel and the Palestinian authorities.  The problem of Palestinian farmers began on March 10 when Israeli troops barred trucks belonging to the five leading Palestinian dairy and meat companies from entering into Jerusalem. Trucks from Hamoda dairy…

  • Palestinian families need closure

    By Daoud Kuttab One of the nastiest acts that has emerged since the beginning of the current wave of Palestinian resistance to Israel is the cruel punishment of withholding bodies of dead Palestinians. Israel is holding the corpses of some 13 Palestinians, some summarily killed by Israeli soldiers, for as long as five months. Taher…

  • Literary world celebrates Palestinian poet’s 75th birthday

    By Daoud Kuttab Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was born on March 13, 1941, in the Galilee village of al-Birweh. Darwish’s birthplace has now been replaced by Jewish settlements. Moshav Ahihud and Kibbutz Yasur now sit where the Palestinian village once stood in northern Israel, east of the port city of Acre. Today, 75 years after…

  • Are Israel’s Arabs losing hope for peace?

    By Daoud Kuttab A substantial survey carried out in Israel, East Jerusalem and among Jewish settlers in the West Bank has shown that Arabs — Muslim, Christian and Druze — are much more religious than Israeli Jews.  Two-thirds of Israeli Arabs surveyed by the Pew Research Center said religion is very important in their lives,…

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